Huh huh, the amount of castles planned to be visited is rather huge.
A map for this journey is available with few different overlays, each one of them representing a certain type of location, such as those castles or accommodations or....
Use the upper right list to show/hide different overlays. By default all of them are shown.
http://paazio.nanbudo.fi/japan2011summer.htm
Prefectual Budokans are not all to be visited but were used as a reference while searching for most optimised accommodation locations. In any case transportation will take a huge part of the total time, thus it should be minimised while considering the cost efficiency.
It should be noted that most Japanese Castles contain a museum of their own and surrounding areas history.
The layer called "Japan2011" contains random items which are not fitting any other description.
Yet one more thing worth mentioning, I do not plan to visit all of the 53+2 stations of the Tokaido road, just some 10 or so...






















