What are your plans for Golden Week ?

[nightmare]

Number of people traveling abroad in Golden Week to rise for 1st time in 3 years


The number of overseas travelers from Japan during the Golden Week holiday period from late April to early May this year is forecast to increase 10.1% from a year earlier to 500,000, the first rise in three years, travel agent JTB Corp said Friday. The increase is attributable primarily to a substantial drop in jet fuel surcharges from a year earlier.

The number of people traveling to Europe is expected to grow 7.8% as Golden Week this year includes five consecutive holidays. The number of people traveling to South Korea is forecast to increase 32.4%, reflecting the yen’s sharp appreciation against the Korean won. JTB said the number of domestic travelers during Golden Week will also increase 2.9% to 21.4 million on the back of expressway toll discounts and cash handouts under the government’s economic stimulus package.

Saturday 04th April, 05:36 AM JST
TOKYO —

[ronfar]

I think there's going to be a lot more travel in the country rather than out this year with the expressway discount. The expresway is usually stupidly exprensive - it would cost a few man to normally to get to Kyushuu (abput four to five hours drive) and back from where I live in just road tolls - and then everything's still the same price or more expensive with hotels and blah blah blah, making it a lot cheaper to just hop a plane abroad where the hotels and often meals are included in the package price. The discount makes it only a thousand yen one way to virtually anywhere (within 24 hours), which makes driving somewhere far off dirt cheap.

The bad side is that since it's cheap, everyone is doing it and the damn expressway is as clogged as the normal roads in populated areas. Forget driving to Disney land. T_T