The app
Plan Sakura, a Japan itinerary planner built from your bookings
The bookings are usually finished before the days are. A flight sits in one email, a hotel in another, a train ticket in a third. Plan Sakura is a Japan itinerary planner that turns those files into a day by day itinerary you can follow, in the order the clock already decided.
It is a DIY Japan trip planner. You book the flight, the hotel, and the train yourself. Then you upload them. The app reads the dates and the times. A landing at 9:10 is not a morning of temples. The hotel comes after the ride from the airport. The nights you already paid for decide which city you wake up in. A train with a time on the ticket stays on that time.
What a day is allowed to do
A place you add has to sit on a day you are already in that city. Senso-ji can move to the afternoon. A ticket with a clock on it does not move because a walk would feel nicer. Stops group around the hotel. The day shows the walk or the train, and about how long that hop takes, so two stops that are too far apart stop pretending to share a morning.
Open one day and the stops are in time order. The first one is often the thing you cannot shift, the flight or the check-in. Everything you added yourself can slide around that. The file you uploaded stays on the day you need it, which is the useful part when you are in a station and the confirmation is three inboxes deep.
What the one payment covers
- Days from the flight, hotels, and trains you booked.
- Places added to a day you are already in that city.
- A route around the hotel. A booked time stays put.
- The file stays on the day you need it.
- Another email on the same trip. They log in. They do not pay.
The planner is free. The upgrade is US$9.99, paid once. Hotels line up on the nights you sleep there. Trains line up on the time printed on the ticket. If you invite someone, they see the same days. They are not buying a second copy.
The sample is an example
The demo on the site is a sample trip through more than one city. That is a sample, so you can see the shape. Your days come from the bookings you upload, in the cities those bookings already name. The app is not a list of places you are required to visit.
It also does not replace the airline, the hotel, or the rail company. Those are still where you pay and where you change a ticket. Plan Sakura starts after that, when the confirmations exist and the days do not. You land, you open the day, and the next time is already written down.
Plan Sakura is a Japan itinerary planner. It builds each day from the flight, hotel, and train you already booked. Free to plan. US$9.99 upgrade, paid once per trip. Covers you plus up to 4 other travellers.
Get the app
Plan Sakura is on Android from Google Play.
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