Another tick on our bucket list:)
The road is one big learning experience. You witness and engage with new people, places and cultures. You navigate challenges, make your own decision, figure out how to get around, and so on. From start to finish you and your family will be learning all the time.
Traveling with family needs thorough preparation. Had it planned I think for almost 2 months? From preparation of visa application, booking our airline tickets, hotel/Airbnb reservation, train tickets from KLOOK since it will be manageable if we will just worry about the kid’s tickets because most of the time we just need to pay half of the fare for them and free for my 4-year-old son. I also printed out IDs for them with our complete details and contact number since my brother is working in Nagoya so as our other families so I put their numbers so they can contact them in case we encountered a problem but thank God we did not and I bought ID holder and attach it to them while were exploring Japan. I even had everything on Excel file with things we should do, places to visit, kinds of stuff that we should bring and also monitor our expenses those are the things you should consider especially when you planned to travel with kids. Make sure before traveling you have a photocopy of each of the traveler’s passport, birth certificate in case it will be check at the immigration and a printed copy of the airline tickets and hotel reservation make sure you have it handy. I also had a long list of what they should bring with them, so they can be comfortable to avoid having their tantrums. All those worries are nothing because at the end of the day despite having our tired feet from walking/strolling, see their genuine happiness makes it worth it.