Hi all,
Included updates and changes to itinerary, would love your recommendations. Open to all feedback, but some questions in particular we have are:
1. Final day(s) of the trip (after leaving Kyoto), we’re heading back to Tokyo with no current plans. What should we do?
2. Heavily encouraged to get JR pass. I assume it makes sense to do so for my itinerary? Will I also need the Hakone bus pass and a bus pass in Kyoto?
3. Is our itinerary reasonable? Seems like every post gets at least one comment encouraging them to slow down, and I want to respect that feedback if it’s warranted
**Saturday, 1/7 – Tokyo**
* Arrive NRT \~4pm. Train to town and check into hotel in Ginza
* Stop by Namiki Dori St
* have 1-2 more things we could hit quickly that night if we have the energy but might be tired
**Sunday, 1/8 – Tokyo**
* Imperial Palace tour. Wadakura Fountain Park after
* lunch somewhere in Harajuku
* Meiji Shrine / Yoyogi Park
* Walk over to Takeshita
* Evening – Shibuya Crossing. Dinner, drinks, some shopping
* side note here – has anyone been to sushi tokyo ten?
**Monday, 1/9 – Tokyo**
* Ideally Toyosu Market early AM
* Head over to Asakusa
* Walk to Senso-Ji
* Nakamise Shopping Street & lunch
* Tokyo SkyTree and Skytree town
* Asahi Brewery
* Ueno Park & Toshogu
* Train to Akiharaba shop + dinner
**Tuesday, 1/10 – Tokyo -> Hakone**
* A few more hours in Tokyo on Tuesday morning, no plans.
* Train to Hakone, we’re staying at a ryokan not far from the Hakone visitor center.
* I’ve worked out that we’ll head out from Higashi-Ginza station, take the Toei Asakusa train line to Shinagawa. Then Transfer to Tokaido Shinkansen and take it to Odawara, and then take a bus up to the hotel and walk from there. Is that logical and/or covered by JR?
**Wednesday, 1/11 – Hakone -> Kyoto**
* Breakfast
* Check out by 11 and continue on to Kyoto. Hotel is in what I guess would be Nanbacho
* Head toward Gion, stop at Kiyomizudera and other shrines in that area
* Hokan-ji
* Heian Shrine, Nanzen-ji
**Thursday, 1/12 – Kyoto**
* Fushimi inari to start after breakfast. Walk as far up as we feel like
* Tofuku ji
* Nishiki market & park
* Nijo castle & Imperial palace.
* Kinkaku-ji & Ryoanji
* Probably back to Gion for dinner
**Friday, 1/13 – Kyoto <-> Nara**
* Breakfast, then head to kyoto station
* Take the JR Nara line to Nara station
* Bus to Kofukuji
* Kasuga Taisha shrine
* Isuien garden & Todai-ji
* Nara park
* Naramachi
* Head out unless we’re missed something?
**Saturday, 1/14 – Kyoto -> Tokyo**
* Arashiyama bamboo forest
* Tenryu-ji
* Kameyama
* Mikami & Nonomiya-jinja
* Return to Tokyo?
**Sunday, 1/15 – Tokyo -> USA**
* No current plans. Return flight departs Narita around 5pm. Should we do teamlabs planets? Anything else we’re missing?
