Rate my itinerary please! 13 days in april, couple with a 5 yo kid

Hi all, I finally made up my plan for Japan and would like to get your opinion on this:

\- is this too much?

\- what can we discard and what is unmissable? My son won’t be willing to walk that much so we have to be flexible

\- are we missing anything in the area

We are a couple around 40 yo with a 5 yo son. We’re interested in see the quintessential Japan things, food and possibly having as much interaction with the locals as possible.

So far we have only bought the plane tickets from Italy. Thank you for your support!

**Apr 6th: arrive in Japan and Tokyo to Osaka**

Arrive at Haneda in the morning. 4 hours for luggage, immigration, terminal change and lunch and fly to Osaka.

Check-in at hotel, rest. Then Umeda Sky Building and dinner somewhere.

**Apr 7th: Osaka**

Osaka-jo castle

Lunch at Kuromon Ichiba market

Abeno Hakuras

Shin-Sekai

Evening in Dotonbori / Amerika-mura

**Apr 8th: Kyoto**

Transfer to Kyoto

Kyoto Station and Skyway

Higashi Hongan-ji

Lunch

Fushimi Inari and Tofuku-ji

Evening in Gion

**Apr 9th: Kyoto**

Nijo-jo castle + Ninomaru gardens

Lunch at Nishiki market

Kinkaku-ji

Arashiyama bamboo forest + Tenryu-ji

Evening in Ponto-cho

**Apr 10th: day trip to Nara (plan TBD) + evening in Kiyamachi-dori**

**Apr 11th: Kyoto**

Sanjusangen-do
Kiyomizu-dera
Chion-in

Nanzen-ji (to see the Hojo garden)
Philosopher path
Maruyama-koen

Evening train to Kanazawa

**Apr 12th: Kanazawa**

Nagamachi
Kenroku-en
Gyokusen Inmaru park

Lunch at Omi-cho market

Higashi-Chaya-Gai

**Apr 13th: Day trip to Shirakawa-go and evening train to Tokyo**

**Apr 14th: Tokyo (Korakuen – Ueno – Akihabara )**

Koishikawa Korakuen
Kanda Myojin

hanging around Akihabara

**Apr 15th: Tokyo (Marunouchi – Ginza – Tsukiji)**

Imperial palace

Nihonbashi

Lunch at Tsukiji market

Hayao Miyazaki clock

Hanging around Ginza

Evening in Roppongi

**April 16th: Tokyo (Shinjuku – Asakusa – Sumida gawa)**

Tokyo Metropolitan building

Godzilla head

Senso-ji

Tokyo sky tree

**April 17th: Tokyo (Odaiba and Tokyo bay)**

TeamLab Borderless

Unicorn Gundam

lunch at Toyosu market

Afternoon TBD (give suggestions!)

**April 18th: Tokyo (Harajuku – Omote-sando – Shibuya)**

Meiji-jungu

Shopping+hanging around+buffer time

**April 19th: fly back from Haneda to Italy**

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