Hello, I am planning a trip for my spring break for Spring 2023, and I was hoping to get some help optimizing the itinerary and see if some things need to be removed. I also just need help organizing the days a little bit. At the moment, we are looking to depart on March 12, and land in Narita airport at around 3 pm on the 13 and leave back to the States at 5:35 pm Japan time on the 19th. So far, we have the activities planned as follows, with some room to shift around. **Please let me know if the route seems reasonable, or if we should downsize it.**
**Tokyo area (13th-15th):**
* Land in Tokyo
* Imperial Palace
* Ueno Park
* Tokyo Skytree
* Shibuya City exploring
* Meiji Jingu shrine (can remove if going to shitennoji instead)
* Harajuku exploring
* Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden
* Omoide-Yokocho for dinner one night
* Nakano Broadway
* Ghibli Museum
* leave for mt fuji at the end of the day on the 15th
**Mount Fuji area (16th):**
* check into hotel for the night of the 15th
* hike around the mountain on the 16th
* Spend the night and head to osaka on the 17th in the morning
**Osaka area (17th)**
* Shinsaibashisuji (optional)
* Osaka Castle
* Shitennoji (can remove if going to meiji jingu instead)
* Osaka Aquarium
**Back to Tokyo (18th and 19th)**
18th would be Disneyland, with our departure on the 19th in the evening.
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For 6 days I would skip Osaka and just focus on Tokyo and Fuji.
Agree with the other commenter – Unless there is a specific reason for going, I wouldn’t spend almost JPY 30,000 and 6 hours total on shinkasen just for a day in Osaka, especially since you won’t seem to go somewhere distinctly different from anything in Tokyo. It also takes time to go from Mt Fuji/Kawaguchiko area to the shinkansen line – in fact the most optimal is to return to Shinjuku or to Shin Yokohama station. You’d already spend half of your day just traveling to Osaka at this rate.
If you’re really keen, you might consider the night bus to Kyoto if you can stand sleeping in the bus. Just check if it’s still running, haven’t checked that website in some time.
There should be castle ruins or reconstruction much closer to Tokyo than Osaka Castle. Same for famous cherry blossom spots.
You might not be aware that foreign tourists don’t have a way to buy Ghibli Museum tickets yet, it requires purchase by someone local.
The list of things to see in Tokyo seems fair, just remember to group them by area so you wouldn’t go back and forth all over Tokyo and lose time to train travel.