Hello JF,
I'm one of the very privileged people to have been awarded a Monbusho scholarship, and I'll be moving to Japan (Kyoto University) by the first week of april (hoping to go hanami).
The thing is: the government will make sure I get to Narita Airport, but I'm on my own from there on. This means I have to get to Kyoto by myself. Two lines of action came to mind:
1) Sending my luggage through some carrier system and taking the Shinkansen.
2) Getting on another plane with my luggage on it.
I haven't been able to find many japanese airlines' websites, but I guess it'd cost me around 30.000YEN to go from Narita do Kyoto (this value is a guess). But I've played around with
JAPAN RAIL PASS types and prises
and
http://www.hyperdia.com/
And they showed me confusing info on the prices of the fares from Narita to Kyoto.
Would you have tips or advice for me? Please remember I'll be carrying large bags (up to two 32kg bags, but I guess I only need one big bag).
Thanks in advance!