We're heading to Japan from Melbourne for our first visit in late November – here is our rough itinerary so far.
Is there anything you would change? Are we doing too much? And most importantly, how should we plan our days for Mt Fuji?
Day 1 – Tokyo
Land at Haneda around 8 PM. Expecting it will be 10 PM by the time we check into our hotel so thinking of grabbing food from 7-11 and calling it a night. Staying in Shinjuku.
Day 2 & 3 – Tokyo
- Some or all of – Shibuya Scramble, Hachiko statue, Tsukiji market, Teamlabs Borderless, Tokyo tower, Zozo-ji temple
- We'll take the train to Hiroshima on Day 3 (whatever the latest train available is)
Day 4 & 5 – Hiroshima
- A few of – Peace Memorial Park, peace memorial museum, Atomic Dome, Hiroshima Castle, Shukkeien Garden
- Eat Hiroshima okonomiyaki
- Travel to Osaka on day 5
Day 6 & 7 – Osaka
Edit – these are the activities that caught my eye but we definitely can’t do it all so we will look to prioritise maybe 4 things.
- Some of these – Nara deer park, Osaka Castle, Dotonbori, Kuromon Ichiba Market, Shin Sekai "New World", Cup noodles museum, Todai-ji, Super Nintendo World Japan, Universal Studios
- We have been to Universal Studios in other cities so not sure we will prioritise this – although the nintendo world is one we'd like to go for.
Day 8 & 9 – Kyoto (but maybe staying in Osaka still and catching the train down to Kyoto for the day)
- Nishiki market
- Fushimi Inari Taisha
- Arashiyama Bamboo Forest
- Pontocho
- + maybe more
Day 10 & 11 – Mt Fuji – would you take a tour or do this yourself? We haven't figured this out yet
Day 12, 13 & 14 – Tokyo
- Ginza explore and shop
- Uniqlo and onitsuka tiger stores
- Don Quixote
- Disney Sea (on our last full day – it's a weekday)
- Anything else we missed in the first leg of our Tokyo trip
Day 15 – fly home at 9 AM
by inaab