Hi everyone,
We’re planning a trip to Japan with 2 kids (10/7) in June/July of 2023. We have a rough plan and wanted to get an idea if it was feasible, and if anyone had any recommendations. Some specific questions we had:
1) How crazy is it to take the alpine route to Kyoto? Would you set it up differently where to stay? We wanted to avoid a ton of travel on any one single day (other than the alpine route)
2) Will we be able to use luggage forwarding to avoid having to bring bags along?
3) Will the alpine route still be super busy early July? is it still worth doing?
4) any other recommendations?
Thanks in advance for your help!
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**June 26** \- Arrive at NRT, shuttle to hotel, spend night.
**June 27** \- **June 30**
3 days in Tokyo, and likely one day trip to Hakone. Want to see
Akihabara/Asakusa, TeamLab Planets Tokyo (Odaiba), Museum of Science, Shinjuku/Shibuya (45 min)
**June 30th evening** take JR Azuza to Matsumoto, spend the night there.
**July 1** spend the day in Matsumoto, Art Museum, Castle, travel to Shinano-Omachi and spend the evening there.
**July 2 -** leave in the morning to do the Tateyama Alpine Route, then take train to Kanazawa via Toyama
**July 3 -** Day in Kanazawa, Kenroku-en, Gold leaf activity, end day with Travel to Kyoto
**July 4 – 7th** \- Kyoto, with a one day trip to Nara. See shrines, Arashiyama, hirobun, biwako valley, etc.
**July 8th-9th -** Osaka, perhaps aquarium or super nintendo world.
**July 10**, depart KIX