Hello, future wife and I will be spending our honeymoon in Japan and Korea, after reading some itineraries and asking some suggestions this is what I was able to come up with.
Would love some suggestions if I missed anything or if it’s too easy or too cramped on some days.
Since we are coming early May we will have missed Sakura season but would love some suggestions for places where we would be able to see Wisteria flowers in any of the days.
#Day 0 (Mon, May 6): Arrival
Flight arrives at 11 PM in HND
Grab Suica Card if possible
Taxi to Hotel
#Day 1 (Tue, May 7): Tokyo
Wake up early at Sunroute Plaza Shinjuku
Breakfast at combini
Teamlabs Borderless 9 to 11am
Shinjuku Gyoen Picnic
Tokyo Metropolitan
Piss alley
Kabukicho
Golden Gai
#Day 2 (Wed, May 8): Tokyo
Early breakfast
Meiji Shrine
Omotesando Street
Random Shopping
Shibuya Crossing
Hachiko
Shibuya Sky 30 mins before sunset
#Day 3 (Thu, May 9): Tokyo
Kaminarimon Gate
Nakamise Dori Street
Sensoji temple
Tokyo Skytree
Kameido Tenjin Shrine
Ueno National Museum
Ueno Park if there’s still time
#Day 4 (Fri, May 10): Tokyo
Yokohama day trip or Disney Sea still deciding
#Day 5 (Sat, May 11): Tokyo
Tsukiji Outer Market
Walk through Ginza
Akihabara arcades
#Day 6 (Sun, May 12): Tokyo – Hakone
Romancecar Express to Hakone at 7ish
Visit Hakone Open Air Museum
Take the Hakone Ropeway and visit Owakudani Valley
Visit Lake Ashinoko and enjoy a boat ride with a chance to see Mount Fuji
Check-in at the Ryokan and enjoy a Kaiseki dinner
Spend the night at the Ryokan
#Day 7 (Mon, May 13): Hakone – Kyoto
Breakfast at the Ryokan
Explore anything we might have missed at Hakone
Train to Kyoto
Check in at the Hotel in Gion
Fushimi-Inari
#Day 8 (Tue, May 14): Kyoto
Kiyomizu-dera Temple
Walk Sannen-zaka and Ninnen-zaka
Maruyama-koen park
Chion-in Temple
Shoren-in Temple
#Day 9 (Wed, May 15): Kyoto
Taxi to Arashiyama
Tenryu-ji Temple
Arashiyama Bamboo Grove
Okochi-Sanso Villa
Taxi to Kinkaku-ji Temple
Hokan-ji Pagoda at night
#Day 10 (Thu, May 16): Kyoto
Sleep in a bit for rest
Ginkaku-ji Temple
Path of Philosophy
Nanzen-ji Temples
#Day 11 (Fri, May 17): Kyoto – Osaka
Leave hotel early and go to Osaka Station
Arrive about 9:30am
Umeda Sky
Kita District
Minami District
Osaka Castle if there’s time just for a picture
Dotombori
#Day 12 (Sat, May 18): Osaka
Universal Studios
#Day 13 (Sun, May 19): Osaka and Nara
Train from Osaka to Kintetsu-Nara
Kofuku-ji Temple
Isuien Garden
Todai-ji Temple
Nara Deer Park
Kasuga-Taisha
#Day 14 (Mon, May 20): Osaka – Hiroshima
Early train to Himeji
Himeji Castle
Koko-en Garden
Engyo-ji Temple if we have time still
Train to Hiroshima
#Day 15 (Tue, May 21): Hiroshima
Hiroshima Castle
Peace Memorial Park
Peace Memorial Museum
Cenotaph for the A-Bomb Victims
Children’s Peace Monument
A-bomb Dome
Orizuru Tower
Okonomimura
#Day 16 (Wed, May 22): Hiroshima – Myajima
Miyajima day trip
Itsukushima Shrine
Daisho-in Temple
Momijidani Park
Mount Misen Ropeway
Omotesando street
#Day 17 (Thu, May 23): Hiroshima – Tokyo
Flight from Hiroshima to Haneda to catch our flight to Seoul
by Lunachrony