Hi, I’ll be going to Japan on an accidental Babymoon in late April. We’ll be going as a group of 4 (two couples) and I’ll be 25-18 weeks pregnant while there. It’s currently a low-risk pregnancy and as a Brit I’m pretty good with walking, but am aware I’ll have to plan for lots of rest.
Currently we have:
**14/04 Tokyo**
* Fly in to Haneda at 7am
* Get our welcome suica, wifi dongle (I can’t get e-sims on my phone), exchange our JR passes at Airport
* Taxi to hotel, dump bags
* Breakfast at a nearby bakery cafe
* Go up to Harajuku and explore (Crepes?)
* Visit Meji jingu and yoyogi park
* check into the hotel around 3pm, and rest
* Grab and easy and quick dinner at a Sushiro near the hotel
* Bed!
**15/04 Tokyo**
* Teamlab planets (booked)
* Lunch at Toyosu market
* Explore Akihabra
* Mario-karting for the other 3, rest and relax at a cat cafe for me
* Dinner at Egg baby
**16/04 Tokyo**
* Azabudai Hills (I’m an architecture fan)
* Matcha parfait
* Stationery shopping at Itoya
* Fish burgers for lunch at Delifucious
* Return to hotel to rest at 3pm
* Shibuya sky at sunset!
* Shibuya scramble
* Karaoke and whatever food they have for dinner
**17/04 Toyko**
* tea tasting experience
* Lunch at Tsukiji outer fish market
* Hamarikyu gardens
* return to hotel at 3pm
* Night in for me, night out in Golden Gai for the other 3
**18/04 Tokyo to Hakone**
* check-out, send big bags to Osaka and travel to Gora with overnight bag
* drop bags at our nice hotel in Gora, maybe have lunch there
* Cable car, Ropeway, pirate ship, bus back to hotel
* Evening in hotel relaxing (our room has a private bath)
**19/04 Hakone to Osaka**
* slow morning at hotel
* check out, visit the Open Air museum
* Travel on to Osaka, get eki ben to eat on bullet train
* Check into Osaka hotel and rest
* Dinner at the hotel or somewhere nearby
**20/04 Osaka**
* Osaka castle
* Osaka National History museum
* Lunch at Kuromon Market
* Back to the hotel around 3pm for a rest
* Visit Dotonburi in the evening and do a street food crawl for dinner
**21/04 Day trip to Nara**
* Travel to Nara
* Nara park (Deer, Todaiji temple, Kasuga Taishi)
* Lunch in Nara somehwere
* Travel back to Osaka
* Rest up in hotel
* Shinsekai in the evening
**22/04 Day trip to Kyoto**
* Travel to Kyoto
* Arashiyama Bamboo Forest
* Cross Togetsukyo bridge and have lunch
* Explore Gion in the afternoon
* Dinner somewhere in Pontocho
* travel back to Osaka
**23/04 Day trip to Kobe**
* Travel from Osaka to Kobe
* Gondola up to Herb garden
* Gondola back down
* Lunch in Kobe
* Train back to Osaka
* Rest at hotel, send luggage on to Tokyo
* teamLab Botanical Garden Osaka
* Dinner (maybe Dotonbori again?)
**24/04 Day trip to Hiroshima**
* travel to Hiroshima
* Peace park and museum
* Onomiyaki for lunch
* travel back to Osaka
* Dinner at hotel or nearby
* early night
**25/04 Osaka to Tokyo**
* relaxed morning in hotel
* Checkout and get bullet train back to Tokyo (Eki ben lunch on train)
* Arrive in Tokyo, check in and rest
* Kabukicho Kabuki hall for dinner
**26/04 Tokyo**
* Sensoji Temple
* Visit Denboin garden
* Lunch at Misoju
* Imperial palace
* Dinner TBC
**27/04 Tokyo**
* Check out
* Shopping day
* check into airport hotel
* early night ahead of early morning fight the next day!
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by sprinkle_gelato