CHAPTER 05 — the sea leads [E]ast

Setouchi and Tokyo — slowly heading east

Summary

Draft — Tentative. Approximately 2028-03-15 to 2028-04-08: travel east from Fukuoka through Hiroshima, with an excursion to Miyajima, and Onomichi, then continue toward Tokyo before Okinawa. The working allocation reserves approximately 2028-04-05 to 2028-04-08 for Tokyo; intermediate stops, accommodation, and transport remain TBD. This short Tokyo stop is separate from the longer summer Tokyo chapter. Document review and approval are pending.

Part of the travel plan.

Copyright and licence

Copyright © 2026 Akane SHIMOKA. This document is released under the MIT License. See the root LICENCE.

Dates and continuity

Dates use local Japan calendar dates. ~ means approximate. Overnight travel and transfer times remain TBD. Tokyo is provisionally 2028-04-05 to 2028-04-08 within this chapter, not an additional chapter.

Expected stay

Tentative: travel east from Fukuoka through Hiroshima, Miyajima, and Onomichi, then continue to Tokyo. Stops beyond Setouchi remain TBD. Reserve approximately April 5–8 for a short Tokyo stay before Okinawa; this is separate from the longer summer Tokyo stay. Housing, night allocations, activities, and work / leave pattern remain TBD.

Budget

Planned expenditure total, housing and fees, food, local movement, sightseeing, owned inter-chapter transfers, other costs, contingency, refundable deposits, payment timing, cash needed, and expected income: TBD.

Use the trip-wide allowances as a planning envelope. Fixed planning exchange rate: €1 = ¥160; retain unrounded calculations and display converted EUR to the nearest €10. No route or housing quote is established.

Transportation

Arrival

Arrival from Fukuoka: that chapter's outbound record owns and budgets the transfer to the first Setouchi stop. Exclude that cost here. Route, mode, fare, luggage, and timing remain TBD.

Local movement

All movement between this chapter's Setouchi stops and onward to Tokyo is internal to this chapter. Allocate each fare and accommodation night here once. Routes, modes, dates, prices, and luggage arrangements remain TBD.

Departure and connection

This chapter owns the transfer from Tokyo to Okinawa, provisionally April 8. Route, airport, mode, fare, luggage, and timing remain TBD.

Preparation and open decisions

Allocate the eastbound stops and housing nights, confirm the short Tokyo stay, and price the onward Okinawa journey.

Decision deadline: TBD. Review of dates, housing nights, budget arithmetic, transfer allocation, and travel-plan consistency remains pending.

Sources and assumptions

The initial outline was recorded in the user planning discussion on 2026-10-22 and revised in this conversation on 2026-10-25. The revised chapter order and purposes reflect user instructions; detailed date allocations remain tentative proposals, not bookings. Unknown substantive details remain TBD.

Revisions