Fiancée and I are planning to have a honeymoon / 30 year b-day (me) in October for two weeks in Japan. Found a great deal in October so jumped on the tickets ASAP. I wanted three weeks, but the tickets would have jumped in price a hefty amount! We’ve got 24 hours to cancel if need be and maybe wait to find a better deal for 3 weeks, but I wanted to try to come up with a (really) rough itinerary and see if people thought 2 weeks would be perfect. Can always make the excuse to go back again in the future! : )
Any recommendations welcome! This was really rough and wanted to throw something out within the 24 hour timeframe I have to rebook/cancel.
**Day 0 (10/3/23) –**
Fly to Japan
**Day 1 (10/4/23) –**
* Land in Japan – 2:15 PM
* Check in Hotel/Air BnB – 4:00 PM
* Explore & Dinner – 4:30 PM – EOD
**Day 2 (10/5/23) –**
* Breakfast – 8:00 AM
*
Tokyo Tower – 9:30 AM
* Ghibli Museum – 1:00 PM
* Dinner – 5:30 PM
* Explore – 6:30 PM – EOD
**Day 3 (10/6/23) –**
* Tokyo Disney – All Day
**Day 4 (10/7/23) –**
* Disney SEA – All Day
**Day 5 (10/8/23) –**
* Free Day – Explore Tokyo (Suggestions?)
**Day 6 (10/9/23) –**
* Breakfast – 8:00 AM
* Imperial Palace – 9:00 AM
* Akihabara – 12:30 PM – EOD
**Day 7 (10/10/23) –**
* Breakfast – 8:00 AM
* Imperial Palace – 9:00 AM
* Travel to Kyoto – 6:00 AM?
* Drop off luggage at Hotel/Air BnB – 10:00 AM
* Fushimi Inari-taisha Shrine – 11:30 AM
* Bamboo Forest – 3:00 PM
* Visit a local shrine? – 5:00 PM
* Dinner – 7:00 PM
**Day 8 (10/11/23) –**
* Explore Kyoto
* Festival?
**Day 9 (10/12/23) –**
* Universal Studios Japan – Osaka (All Day)
**Day 10 (10/13/23) –**
* Day trip to Osaka (Suggestions?)
**Day 11 (10/14/23) –**
* Day trip to Nara (Suggestions?)
**Day 12 (10/15/23) –**
* Travel to Kurashiki, Okayama – 8:00 AM
* Visit ‘Jean Street’ – 12:00 PM
* Explore – 4:00 pm
* Dinner – 6:00 PM
* Back to Kyoto
**Day 13 (10/16/23) –**
* Travel to Nagoya – 6:00 AM – 10:00 AM
* Check in hotel/Air bnb (drop off luggage) – 11:00 AM
* Ghibli Park – 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
* Dinner – 6:00 PM
**Day 14 (10/17/23) –**
* Travel to Tokyo – 6:00 AM – 1:00 PM
* Check in hotel/Air bnb – 2:00 PM
* Explore – 3:00 PM – EOD
**Day 15 (10/18/23) –**
* Free Day in Tokyo (suggestions)
**Day 16 (10/19/23) –**
* 7:00 AM – Breakfast
* Any last-minute activities – 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM
* Head to airport to fly home! (Departure at 4:00 PM)
Will be editing based on suggestions. Thanks!
2 comments
You have a lot of check in times earlier in the day, I know for sure a lot of Airbnb’s dont have check in until around 3pm. I think hotels for the most part are the same.
Would suggest making sure wherever you are staying either has accepts early baggage drop off, or be willing to store your stuff in a coin locker until you can actually check in.
Kurashiki is not far from Kyoto, about 1 hour 30 minutes.
If you take the bullet train after 8:00 am, you can change trains in Okayama and arrive in Kojima before 10:00 am.
Then Universal Studios Japan is in Osaka, so you have to switch between 9 and 10 October.