Hello everyone! 21 year old male travelling to Japan for the first time for 35 days, hoping to cover as many places as possible. Could I get feedback on how possible my itinerary is and any tips or things I wouldn’t want to miss out on? There from April 11th to May 15th.
JR Pass already booked, I used a calculator website and it was apparently worth buying (which is probably an indicator I’ve packed in too much travelling) so will mostly be using train/shinkansen to get around. Also mostly going to be staying in motels/capsules to have as much money available as possible for other stuff, though I’ve booked a hotel for the first couple days to settle in.
Sorry in advance if anything seems stupidly impossible 😅
**Week 1:**
1 – Land at Narita, pick up JR pass and buy some travel things
2 – Tokyo Tower, museums/shrines/parks
3 – TeamLab Planets, arcades, Shibuya crossing
4 – Shinkansen to Hakodate (arrive late afternoon), Mt Hakodate, Goryoukaku park/tower
5 – Hakodate morning markets, Shinkansen to Aomori in afternoon/evening
6 – Aomori art museum, Apple park, Tourist information centre
7 – Afternoon train to Hirosaki, Hirosaki castle and botanical gardens. Potentially train to Sendai in the evening if done with Hirosaki early
**Week 2:** (start of this week seems difficult)
8 – Train to Sendai, Sendai castle, Aobayama park.
9 – Matsushima, back to Tokyo
10 – Early-ish to Hakone, Mishima Skywalk and/or Hakone Ropeway, night at Ryokan if possible
11 – Leave whenever ready to Kyoto, thousand gates and street along river (friend recommended)
12 – Kyoto Imperial Palace, game collaboration event
13 – River boat ride, bamboo forest. Travel to Osaka in evening
14 – Universal Studios
**Week 3:**
15 – Day trip to Nara, Osaka aquarium?
16 – Sky building, Osaka Castle, cup noodle museum
17 – Go to Hiroshima earlyish, Itsukushima Shrine, castle
18 – War museum then go to Fukuoka, Zoo and botanical garden
19 – Day trip to Nagasaki, war museum and hypocentre
20 – Day trip to Kagoshima, volcano observation
21, 22, 23 – travel back to tokyo, do anything I missed on way back
**Week 4/5:**
24, 25 – rock concert should take up most of the days
26-35 – not sure yet but mostly day trips or rest days? kawaguchiko, kusatsu, mt hakone etc.
As you can see the trip is pretty front loaded, mainly because I need to be in Tokyo on days 24 and 25 for the concert. Only other day currently set in stone is day 14, once again sorry if any of this sticks out as obviously impossible. Any thoughts/suggestions are appreciated 🙏
by StopNicoBullying