This is version number 2 of our itinerary for my bf and I’s first trip to Japan coming up in a couple of weeks. We will be spending our whole trip (about 5-6 days) in Tokyo. I posted my 1st version on here a while back and made plenty of changes so thanks everyone!
Please let me know if you have any suggestions or if a day looks too jam packed/too light. We want to see a lot, but we don’t want to be rushing to get through everything.
I compiled a list of food/restaurants for each area we’re visiting. We never know what we might be craving until the moment of, so I prepared a list of options for us to choose from lol. if anyone is curious I can post it in a comment below!
Things to know:
• we plan to wake up and start our days 7am/8am (we want to maximize our time as much as we can since we’re there for such a short time)
• we are planning to eat all of our breakfasts at a konbini (7/11, family mart, Lawsons)
Day 1️⃣: Friday
•7pm – Arrive at Narita & buy N’EX tickets
•Take Narita Express to Shinjuku Station and check-in hotel
• Explore Shinjuku station
– eat street food @ Piss Alley
– Shop @ Tokyu Hands
– Godzilla Head
– Don Quixote for souvenirs, snacks, skin care
• Find dinner in Shinjuku open late (probably ramen)
•Go back to hotel and sleep
Day 2️⃣: Saturday
• use Onsen & early breakfast at 7/11
• take subway to Ghibli Museum – 10am
• Take subway to Harajuku Station
– Walk Yoyogi park & Meiji Shrine
– Explore Takeashita street & eat food
– Togo Shrine
– Hedgehog Cafe
• Lunch: I’m assuming we’ll be full from all the food at Takeshita street, but if not we’ll just find something in the area
• Walk Omote-Santo street
– supreme, huf, stussy, bape, CDG
•Take subway to Shibuya Station
– Mega Don Quijote
– Pokemon center
– Nintendo Tokyo
– Shibuya Crossing
– Haciko
– Shopping @ Shibuya center gai
– Shibuya Sky
• Dinner: ramen, gyukatsu, conveyer belt sushi, yakitori
Day 3️⃣: Sunday
• Visit Senso-ji Temple (planning to get here before before/around 8am to beat crowds)
• Shop & eat street food @ Nakamise Street
– Check out Shiba Cafe?
– Walk Sumida river/park
• if not full from the street food, for Lunch we might do: Gyukatsu, okonomiyaki, Sushiro, shabu shabu on-yasai, soba, etc
• Take subway (15 min) or walk (24 min) to Tokyo Skytree
• Take subway to Ueno Onshi Park
• Eat street food & shop @ Ameyoko Shopping Street
•Walk to Akihabara (streets closed on sun nights)
– gachapon hall
– super potato, mandarake complex, hard off (thrift)
– bic camera, amiami
– gigo akihabra3
• Dinner: Roast Beef Ono or Jiromaru Akihabara
Day 4️⃣: Monday
• Eat breakfast @ Tsukiji Fish market
• take subway from Tsukiji station to Tokyo station
• Explore Tokyo Station & Tokyo Imperial Palace
Lunch: 1pm reservation at Ginzano (ayce wagyu!)
• Walk around Ginza
– Kabuki-za Theatre, teamlab installation at Bvlgari, Dover Street Market, Nissan Crossing, LV, Versace
– sweet potato street food
• Take subway to Daiba
– Rainbow Bridge
– see Unicorn Gundam statue in Destroy mode (light show)
– Hello Kitty store
• TeamLab Planets
– Reservation @ 6:30 (I read that crowds tend to be lower if you go when it opens/closes on weekdays)
• Dinner at Shabu-Shabu on-yasai nearby museum or take subway back to Ginza or Shinjuku for food
Day 5️⃣: Tuesday (Tokyo DisneySea)
• Grab breakfast and load up on snacks for the day at 7/11
• 6am – Take subway to Disney
• Arrive @ disneysea – around 7:00 am (read that it’s good to come early since they start letting people in way before posted park opening time – 9am)
• Stay @ DisneySea open till close
– From my research, it is recommended to do this order for rope drop!
– rope drop: journey to center of the earth
– Buy premiere pass for Soarin
– Ride Indiana Jones or Raging Spirits, then Sinbad or Tower of Terror, 20k leagues
– Single rider: Indiana Jones, raging spirits
• 9:00 pm – take subway to Shibuya/Shinjuku for dinner
Day 6️⃣: Wednesday (Last day)
Don’t really have concrete plans for this day, we want to leave it open in case we want to revisit places but I have an idea of what we can do just in case:
• Check-out hotel and store luggage at Shinjuku station
• Grab breakfast & walk around Shinjuku Gyoen park (opens 9am)
• Tokyo tower
– Observation deck
– Zojoji temple
– Atagojinja Shrine
– Shiba park
– RED gaming tower
• Hang around Shibuya or Harajuku, revisit places, buy souvenirs/snacks
• 3:30/4pm – Take Narita Express from Shibuya station to Narita airport
• 8:55 pm – Flight back home
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Additional Questions:
• Which sightseeing tower is the best/most worth in your opinion?
• Is Tokyo Sky Tree worth it? How long does it take to get through? Debating on removing this so we will have more time in Akihabara
• What is a good time to arrive at Tsukiji for breakfast? From what I’ve read it’s good to arrive before 8am to beat the crowds
• How much time should we plan to spend at the Imperial Palace?
• How much time should we plan to be in Odaiba? Can anyone recommend other things to do there?