Hey everyone! I’ve been following this subreddit for around 6 months, and I’m in the midst of planning my honeymoon in Japan for April. I’ve outlined a preliminary itinerary and would love your input before finalizing details like hotels and food. Our trip is scheduled from 4/7 to 4/22, and it’s our first time in Japan. We’re keen on exploring as much as possible, with a focus on sightseeing, food, and our shared interest in manga and anime (primarily in Tokyo, I assume). While I’ve mapped out a lot using Google Maps, I’d appreciate your thoughts on whether there’s anything I should remove, add, or any particularly interesting spots I might be missing. Thanks in advance for your help!
**4/7/2024** \- Plane from Birmingham, AL (all day)
**4/8/2024** \- Arrive in HND at 1525; get on plane to Osaka
* Contemplating using entire day to travel so that way i can back track my way to Tokyo for the end of my trip since that will be where I am flying back out of. My thought process was that I would probably be exhausted from the travel and it would be easier, and possibly cheaper, to use the rest of the day to travel to Osaka.
**4/9/2024 -** Osaka
* Namba Ysaka Shrine
* Osaka Castle Area (castle/park)
* Umeda Sky building
**4/10/2024** \- Osaka
* Tokyu Hands Department Store
* Shinsaibashi-suji
* Dotonobori Area
* Den Den Town
**4/11/2024** \- Travel to Nara; Travel to Kyoto at the once finished at Nara
* Kofuku-ji Temple
* Todai-ji Temple
* Kasuga-Taisha
* Higashimuki Shopping Street
**4/12/2024** \- Kyoto
* Otagi Nenbusuji
* Arashiyama Bamboo Forest
* Tenryuiji (garden/indoor?)
* Kinkaku-ji Temple
* Gion
**4/13/2024** \- Kyoto
* Kiyomizu-dera Temple
* Shoren-in Temple
* Nishiki Market
* Teramchi Shopping Arcade
* Downtown Kyoto
**4/14/2024** \- Kyoto
* Fushimi-Inari Shrine (morning? Evening?)
* Ginkaku-ji Temple
* Path of Philosophy
**4/15/2024** \- Kyoto – Hakone
* Travel day to hakone
* Private Onsen at a ryoken or hotel – whatever I can find that is nice
**4/16/2024** \- Hakone
* Fuji Shibazakura Festival
* More just take in the scenery near Mt Fuji
* Sulfur eggs?
* End of day travel to Tokyo
**4/17/2024** \- Tokyo
* Senso-Ji Temple
* Bookshop Neighborhood
* Tokyo National Museum
* Explore Akihabara in general
* Final Fantasy Café
* Ueno Park
**4/18/2024** \- Tokyo
* Shibuya Crossing
* Hachiko Statue
* Takeshita-dori Street
* Shop at Don Quijote
* Shibuya Parco
**4/19/2024** \- Tokyo
* Meiji-jingu Shrine
* Nezu Museum
* Roppongi shopping/exploring
**4/20/2024 -** Tokyo (Kamakura/Yokhama)
* Kamakura Daibutsu
* Minato Mirai Habour
* Hokokuji Temple
* CupNoodles Museum
* Komachi Dori
* Chinatown
**4/21/2024** \- Tokyo
* Free day (go back to areas of Tokyo we liked the most)
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**4/22/2024** \- Tokyo (leave at 1000)
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Im open to any and all feedback. I’m super nervous about planning this trip knowing only what I have seen on this subreddit and the internet in general, I hope that I have planned something of a decent trip!
by MrSmiggle3