hello everybody! I'm planning a surprise graduation trip for me and my fiancé in October 2025. It will last about 3 weeks (still fine tuning the exact dates).
I have 2 different itinerary planned, and I was wondering if you can give me some tips/advice. We both love onsens, we like to travel at medium pace and we love anime and food.
OPTION A
- Osaka (4 nights)
- Day 1
- Arrive at KIX in the early afternoon
- Check in and explore the city, then dinner and crash
- Day 2
- Castle
- Aquarium
- Namba Shrine
- Umeda Sky
- Day 3: Nara trip
- Day 4: USJ
- Day 1
- Kyoto (4 nights)
- Day 5
- Check in and Gion district
- Dinner and chill
- Day 6
- Fushimi Inari
- Sake tour (Suntory?)
- Tofukuji
- Day 7
- Kyomizu-dera
- Kodaiji
- Ginkakuji
- Day 8
- Arashiyama
- Tenryu-ji
- Monkey park
- Kinkakuji
- Sanjusangendo
- Day 5
- Yamashiro Onsen (2 nights)
- Day 9 and 10: splurging for a luxury ryokan and exploring the area
- Kanazawa (2 nights)
- Day 11
- Kenrouken
- Castle
- Ochimi, Higashi-Chaya
- Day 12
- Ninja temple
- Nagamachi
- Day 11
- Tokyo (5 nights): still defining
OPTION B
- Osaka (4 nights)
- Kyoto (4 nights)
- Lake Kawaguchico or Hakone (2 nights)
- Splurging for ryokan
- Exploring the area, renting bike, still not clear
- Tokyo (5 nights)
Open to suggestions, changes of the duration of the stay in the cities etc
Thank you!
by martipanda_