Hello all! For our honeymoon, our husband and I will be visiting Japan for the first time, and we will be there for two weeks February to March. We seek validation that we aren’t woefully under-planned nor completed over-booked. Thanks for looking, and we will be sure to post a travel report follow up!
**Day 0: Arrival**
1. Land in Narita
2. Narita Express to Shinjuku Station
3. Check into hotel in Shinjuku
4. Check out Shinjuku / Kabukicho / Golden Gai
**Day 1: Kyoto**
1. Shinkansen from Shinagawa Station to Kyoto Station
2. Check into ryokan in Gion
3. Tenjin-san Market at Kitano Tenmangu Shrine
4. Shrines and temples around Gion
5. Kaiseki dinner at ryokan
**Day 2: Kyoto**
1. Check out from ryokan
2. Philosopher’s Path / Otoyo Shrine to Ginkaku-ji Temple
3. Tour sake brewery (reservation @ 12:00)
4. Check into hotel
5. Shop at Pokemon Store Kyoto / Nishiki Market
6. Night visit to Senbon Torii / Fushimi Inari
**Day 3: Osaka**
1. From Kyoto-Kawaramachi Station with Hankyu one-day pass
2. Tazaemon Bridge / Dotonbori
3. Kuromon Ichiba / Namba Parks
4. OPTIONAL: *Minoh Park – is it too out of the way?*
**Day 4: Nara**
1. From Kyoto Station with Kintetsu one-day pass
2. Nara Park / Todai-ji
3. Mt Kasuga Forest
4. Tea ceremony at Nara Visitor Center (reservation @ 15:00)
5. OPTIONAL: *Imaicho – is it too out of the way?*
**Day 5: Kyoto**
1. Early morning visit to Arashiyama bamboo grove / Saga Toriimoto Street
2. Lunch at Unagi Hirokawa (reservation @ 11:00)
3. Nijo Castle / Pontocho / Shimogamo
4. Dinner at restaurant in Pontocho (reservation @ 17:30)
**Day 6: Return to Tokyo**
1. Check into hotel in Ueno
2. Akihabara
3. Asakusa
**Day 7: Ueno / Akihabara / Asakusa**
1. Ueno Park
2. Akihabara
3. Asakusa
**Day 8: Daruma Matsuri + Suginami Ward**
1. Suginami Museum OR Ghibli Museum (if lucky)
2. Daruma Matsuri at Jindaiji Temple / Kitaro Chaya
3. Kichijoji
4. Nakano Broadway
**Day 9: Day Trip to Miura Peninsula**
1. From Shinagawa Station with “Misaki Maguro Day Trip Ticket”
2. Komatsugaike Park
3. Urari Fish Market
4. OPTIONAL: Jogashima Island
5. Kurihama Flower Park
6. Dobuita Street
7. QUESTION: *Anything else worth checking out around Miura, and do early-blooming variety cherry blossoms really bloom as early as the first week of March?*
**Day 10: Chiyoda Ward**
1. Daijingu Shrine
2. Imperial Palace
3. Karasumori Shrine
4. Art Aquarium / Tsukiji Market
5. Sanrio Ginza / Prefecture antenna shops / Kirby Cafe Petit
**Day 11: Meguro Ward**
1. Rinshi-no-mori Park
2. Parasitology Museum
3. Lunch omakase at Udatsu Sushi
4. QUESTION: *If we were to do Roppongi and Ginza in the afternoon, what would be must see or try in those neighborhoods?*
5. Night in Asakusa
**Day 12: Ikebukuro & Waseda / Shinjuku & Shibuya**
1. Travel by the Sakura Tram (Toden-Arakawa Line)
2. Sunshine City / Ikebukuro
3. Haruki Murakami Library / Aizu Museum / Kigumi Museum
4. Shinjuku & Shibuya
5. Omoide Yokocho
**Day 13: Ume Matsuri / Tokyo Dinner Boat**
1. Ume Matsuri at Yushima Tenjin
2. QUESTION: *Which would be an easygoing trip for our last day: Harajuku? Shimo-Kitazawa? Small Worlds?*
3. Dinner Boat (reservation @ 18:30)
**Day 14: Return Home**
1. Ueno Station for Keisei Skyliner to Narita