It was TOO LATE!
Transportation was still ok, but all the hotels around the festival location were already fully booked. :(
I checked surrounding areas but they are also fully booked...
I was about to give up...
Then I checked some package tours.
Train tours were also almost sold out and only expensive ones were left.
It was a little too expensive to us..
There was a bus tour.
And... it was still available and CHEAP!
What's more, 2 more festivals in Tohoku area were included in this package tour!
It definitely attracted me. :)
I was a little worried about a long bus ride, though.
As mentioned in Introduction, it's 9-hour drive by car from Yokohama, so I worried if my 5-year-old son could bear with it or not...
But I didn't have to worry about it!
My son enjoyed a bus ride and they stopped at the highway rest areas quite often.
Anyway, the tour started from Ueno at about 8am (it departures from Shinjuku actually and Ueno is the 2nd stop) and arrived in Aomori at 4pm, so it was about 8-hour drive!
Not bad. :)
Scenery from the bus
This is Mt. Iwate.
We took a Japanese tour because we went with my mother (she doesn't understand English).
But I saw many foreign tourists taking package tours in Aomori.
If you are going to Aomori for Nebuta Matsuri festival from overseas, probably taking a package tour is a better choice.
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