3rd time lucky: Itinerary for 20 days, train and driving 🥳🚅

Thank you Redditors who have helped me get to this point in time with my itinerary 🥹

This is my third time in Japan 🙋🏻‍♀️ and I will be travelling solo.

My itinerary will be quite simple and won’t be in details. I roughly want to enjoy the day without pushing myself too much 🙈

25 May- 26 May:
– I will arrive at Haneda at 2 PM
– Check in: Century Southern Tower, choosing this hotel after contemplating Mitsui Garden and Sunroute (stayed here previously)
– Exploring Shinjuku, Harajuku, Shibuya, Asakusa.

27 May: Hakone, will drive around for fun, picking up hire car from Nissan
– specifically want to go to Susuki Grass Fields
– and Little Prince museum
– will visit Gotemba if I feel like it during the day 😊

28 May: Takayama
– pick up hire car from Toyota 🚗
– check into Mercure Hida
– going around places: museum, Hida gyoza place, Hida no Sato
– driving to Shirakawago – seems feasible 😀, right?
– then go back to Takayama

(Need help with this one especially)
29 May: driving to Kanazawa from Takayama via Nagano-ish
– I want to check out the Snow Corridor 😳
– want to see baby monkeys at Snow Monkey Park
– visiting Zuishinmon
– Mikurigaike onsen
– head to Kanazawa

Kanazawa – really no plan yet, will do research soon

Staying in Kanazawa 29-30 May at Soki Kanazawa, and check out 31 May morning

31 May: drop off car, then go take train to Kurashiki. Check in to Dormy Inn Kurashiki.

31 May – 2 June: exploring Kurashiki and Okayama
(Is this too long?)

2 June: travelling to Osaka, staying at Sotetsu Namba

3 June: exploring Osaka

Planning to do a day trip to Hiroshima on Sun 4 June, and Miyajima.

Monday: 5 June, this is the only weekday I have to go to USJ. Priority: Nintendo world, then I take a night train to Kyoto. check in at Hotel Gran Kyoto.

6-8 June: Kyoto
For 3 days, will focus on Nara, Arashiyama + the eel restaurant there), will add more into this soon.

9 June: Kyoto to Tokyo.
– Back to century hotel
– can go Gotokuji temple
– go around Shibuya and Shinjuku

10-11 June: will try to get a reservation for Kirby Cafe, if not there’s always Moomin 😊

Not sure about Team Lab yet.

Might take half of the afternoon to go see Yokohama at night. Or go half morning to see Gundam factory 🏭

12 June: Disney Sea – still thinking to do this or not, but next year will be Disney 100 years anniversary 🥺🤗

13: back to Australia 😖🥲🥹

Please feel free to give advice and opinion 😊

Thank you 🙏🏻

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