gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:
> On 2014-09-06 16:16:52 +0000, mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net said:
> 
>>> But I really meant in the last days days somewhere in the semi-coastal
>>> area between Kyoto and Tokyo; generally in *that* part of the country.
>>> Nikko? Izu peninnsula.
> 
> The first week of the trip we're in Tokyo and have considered Nikko as a
> day trip. This afternoon we booked the last 4 nights of that period in
> Shimodo on Izu Peninsula, and the first two nights at Koya-San.  That
> leaves the five days in between.  We'll have spent a big hunk of the time
> in Kobe and Kyoto so we're reluctant to plunk down in Nagoya, which seems
> to have a lot of lookee-loo stuff.  We may try to go to a quiet smaller
> place, a no-place-in-particular burg; but you can see how they are hard to identify...

Have you considered Soga, the armpit of Chiba?
<kidding>

Seriously, Nokogiriyama is close enough to Tokyo either via driving or
train to make an interesting daytrip.