Hi, I’m solo traveling (23f) to Japan for 11 days. In Tokyo, my goal is to eat at unique restaurants and cafes, buy all the merch that I’m not able to get in the states, and find cool vintage collectibles/music. In Kyoto and Osaka, I’m hoping to visit tourist attractions by seeing shrines, going to a monkey park, and visiting theme parks. Does this itinerary seem reasonable for each day? I’d like to optimize my time there as much as I can. Thanks!
**Day 1 -** ***Arrival in*** ***Tokyo (3:10pm)***
* Purchase train tickets for Tokyo -> Kyoto and Kyoto -> Osaka
* Buy Pasmo / Suica card
* Travel to hotel
* Arrive at hotel by 5pm
**Day 2 -** *Ikebukuro*
* Shopping at: Nakano Broadway (take transit to Ikebukuro), Pokemon Center, Rilakkuma Store, Evangelion Store
* Eat at Super Sentai Restaurant
* Visit Muscle Girls Bar
**Day 3 -** *Shibuya*
* Shopping at: Daiso Harajuku, Nintendo Store, Village Vanguard
* Find vintage and niche vinyl/CDs at Tower Records and Disk Union
* Visit Daikan-yama T-Site
* Eat at Curry Station Niagara
**Day 4 -** *Akihabara*
* Eat at Kirby Cafe
* Visit Gigo Akihabara 1
* Collectible shopping at: Mandarake, Jungle, Hard Off & Hobby Off
* Visit/Eat at AKB Cafe, Gundam Cafe, Square Enix Cafe
**Day 5 -** *Ginza/Koto City*
* Eat at Pokemon Cafe
* Shopping at: Muji, Sanrio World, Uniqlo
* Visit DiverCity Tokyo Plaza (Unicorn Gundam Statue)
* Visit Small Worlds
**Day 6 -** *Buffer Day*
* Visit Kabukicho
* (Room for rescheduling)
**Day 7 -** *Tokyo to Kyoto*
* Check out of Tokyo hotel
* Travel to Kyoto
* Visit Arashiyama Monkey Park Iwatayama
* Visit Fushimi Inari Taisha
* Visit Yasaka Shrine
* Walk along Philosopher’s Path
* Eat at Nishiki Market
**Day 8 -** *Kyoto*
* Spend day at Toei Kyoto Studio Park
**Day 9 -** *Kyoto to Osaka*
* Check out of Kyoto hotel
* Travel to Osaka
* Go on Osaka Castle tour
* Eat street market food
**Day 10 -** *Universal Studios*
* Spend day at Universal Studios
**Day 11 -** *Departure from Osaka*
3 comments
Not at all helpful but I want to tag along, your spots seem like so much fun.
Day 7 might be tough. The places are pretty much all across Kyoto and it will take some time to get from A to B to C to D, especially if you’re going to spend some time at each place.
Edit: when are you going to be in Kyoto?
Good itinerary that’s not suicide like most on this sub. You should be able to do everything and have extra time for random things you see from the looks of it.
Did you book at kirby cafe? Reservations release for the entire next month at 6pm on the 10th in japan time and they book out entirely soon after.
Also for the ginza day I’d recommend checking out itoya which is a fancy stationery store right near uniqlo and muji.
For gigo in akihabara if you’re going because it’s iconic then yeah id recommend it but if you just want to go to an arcade in japan I’d recommend not akihabara. The staff there is not as nice when it comes to helping you win and the machines always feel harder to win in my experience.