crazyzee wrote:

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Any other good sightseeing ideas would be great.

Always Mt.Fuji, don't neccessarily have to do the climb but the surrounding areas are really scenic and nice. There's Hiroshima and would really recommend seeing the peace memorial museum. Ogimachi village is another place I recommend going to, but it's quite out of the way (we rented a car and drove from Takayama but could be maybe bus services to there?)

Beppu is renowned for it's natural Hotsprings and worth a visit there if you want to try a 100% natural hotspring.

I don't remember anywhere that had the monkeys dipping into the hotsprings, I remember another tourist talking about it when I was there but cannot remember the name. I think he mentioned more North of Japan possibly somewhere in Hokkaido