My friends and I (4 people) will travel to Japan for the first time in October and wanted to get some feedback on the below working itenerary we made. Let me know what you guys think!
Day 0 – Tokyo/Osaka
- Fly into Narita
- Transfer to next airline
- Fly into Osaka
- Arrive at Osaka; take taxi to hotel
Day 1 – Osaka
- Osaka Castle
- Umeda Sky Building
- Lunch
- Head Spa Kuu
- Dinner at Dotonburi area
Day 2 – Kobe/Osaka
- Train to Kobe (possibly around 9am)
- Motomachi Shotengai shopping street
- Chinatown
- Kobe Nunobiki Herb Gardens
- Train back to Osaka
- Pokemon Cafe (hopefully, fingers crossed)
- Tsutenkaku
Day 3 – Nara/Kyoto
- Ship luggages from Osaka hotel to Kyoto hotel early morning
- Take Aoniyoshi train from Osaka Station to Nara station (around 9am)
- Deer Park and Nakatanidou -Mochi
- Take Aoniyoshi from Kintetsu-Nara Station to Kyoto Station (either 1:30 or 3:30 train)
- Arrive in Kyoto and check in to hotel
- Free time around area and early dinner
Day 4 – Kyoto
- Hozugawa River Boat Ride
- Lunch in Arashiyama area
- Kyozuan ice cream
- Kodaiji Temple
- Kameyama-koen Park
- Macho Bar
Day 5 – Kyoto
- Fushimi Inari Shrine
- Kimono Tea Ceremony Maikoya at Nishiki
- (THISIS)SHIZEN ice cream
- Nijo Castle
- Kyoto Imperial Palace
Day 6 – Uji
- Train to Uji
- Byodo-in temple
- Koushouji Temple
- Tamakitei cafe
- Tsuen Green Tea
- Train back to Kyoto
Day 7 – Kyoto/Tokyo
- Ship luggages from Kyoto hotel to Tokyo hotel early morning
- Kifune Shrine
- Matcha House
- Lunch at Nishiki Market
- Take Shinkansen from Kyoto Station to Tokyo Station
Day 8 – Tokyo (Chuo City)
- Tsukiji Outer Fish Market (early morning)
- Shiseido Global Flagship Store
- teamLab Borderless Tokyo
- Pokemon Tokyo Center Bay
- Mario Karting – Tokyo Bay (around sunset)
- Dinner
Day 9 – Tokyo (Asakusa/Akihabara)
- Senso-ji Temple
- Nakamise-dori Street
- Yoroshi Cosmetics
- Onitsuka Tiger
- Pokemon Center Skytree
- Train to Akihabara area
- Browse around Akihabara and find dinner
- Muscle Girls Café
Day 10 – Mt Fuji area
- Arakurayama Sengen Park
- Chureito Pagoda
- Arakurayama Summit
- Lake Kawaguchi
Day 11 – Tokyo (Shibuya)
- Pokemon Center Shibuya
- Kumachan Onsen
- LOFT Shibuya
- Animate Shinjuku
- Mugiwara Store
- Shibuya Sky Tree (around sunset)
- Tokyo Metropolitan Gov Building
Day 11 – Hakone
- Train from Shinjuku or Tokyo station to Hakone via limited express "romance train"
- Bus from station to Hakone Kowakien Yunessun
- Owakudani
- Cha no Chimoto cafe
- Train back to tokyo
- Nightclub
Day 12 – Tokyo (Free day)
- MEGA Don Quijote
- Meiji Jingu (if we are in the mood to go)
- Gōtokuji Temple (if we are in the mood to go)
- Omakase Ginza Toyoda
Day 13 – Tokyo/Last Day
- Taxi to Narita airport
- Fly back home
Some notes/Questions:
For Mt.Fuji, we are looking into a bus transport via Klook or Viator.
We wanted to have some breathing room in between each activity rather than jamming a lot in one day. We also wanted to take into account the amount of walking we will do.
Regarding food, we are making reservations only for the omakase. For the rest of the meals, we are winging it. This is because we are already reserving a lot of the activities, and we didn't want to tack on keeping up with restrurant reservations.
Tokyo Metropolitan Gov Building is only an option if we cannot get into Shibuya Sky Tree during sunset hour, which understandly is a popular time people will book for.
Any recs on stuff to do in Uji? Also any recs on clubs in Tokyo?
Do we need to prebook taxis for airport transfers?
Thank you for reading to the end!
by makimaker