I Have Some Reservations About This...
When planning such a major expedition as going to Japan, it's good to know in advance that you're going to have a place to sleep each night. It seems to me that most of the US-based travel web sites will only find luxury hotels in a handful of major cities. If you can read Japanese well enough to use the Japanese travel sites, you will find that their on-line reservation forms won't handle international addresses. The sites below work with lodgings that are willing make the extra effort it takes to host international customers. As you know, we foreigners can be hard to communicate with and tend to rely on our hosts for more assistance (e.g. Where's the nearest coin laundry? Can you help me fill out this form? What are the hours for such and such a park?) These are the sites I like: Welcome Inns - http://www.itcj.jp/eng/index.php This site is good especially if you want to stay in a Japanese style inn, sleeping on a futon in a tatami room. Some have meals available and t...