Day 1 Travel
Day 2 : arrive – pick up JR Pass, Mobile Hot Spot, Send Luggage to Osaka (1st long stay hotel). Go to hotel over by Tokyo Station
Day 3 – Take bullet train to Nagano. Check in to hotel . Go to Jigokudani Park. Use onsen.
Day 4 – Go to Jigokudani Park (if needed. second day allowed for blurry photos). Take bullet train to Osaka. Check in to hotel. Wander around Dotonburi, try to go to owl cafe. Maybe Osaka Castle.
Day 5 – Osaka Aquarium, wander Osaka, potential Yamazaki distillery free tour, Team, Lab Botannical Gardens in the evening – Also, find a Takuhaibin to send luggage to Disney hotel)
Day 6 – Kyoto 7 am Arashiyama Bamboo Forest, Fushimi Inari Taisha (not the trail, maybe for an hour), Nishi Market. -> Head back to Osaka for the paid Yamazaki Distillery tour at 2:40 pm (I hear there are things that I will miss on the free vs paid tour sample wise, otherwise maybe I can just do the free tour). If I skip Yamazaki distillery store, hope to see Yasaka Koshindo Temple, eat dessert at Maccha house, head to Hasegawa area and look at ceramics
Day 7 – Have breakfast, wander around until 10 am. Take bullet train back to tokyo. Head to Disney hotel to check in. Go to Ikspiari disney. (we haven’t decided whether or not we’re buying evening tickets, but I think we will just to look around disney Sea without rushing)
Day 8-9 Disney – Day 9, send luggage to Our hotel in Shinjuku .
Day 10 Wander around Shinjuku until its time to checkin to hotel. Small rest, head to Shibuya Sky for sunset.
Day 11: Wander tokyo. Go to GInza for 6 pm Art Aquarium Museum.
Day 12 Sanrio Puroland
Day 13 : Wander around, Team Lab Planet 4 pm – Send luggage to airport
Day 14: wander tokyo. 2 pm head to Narita airport for flight.
Would love thoughts. I’ve pretty much bought tickets for everything except the Osaka Aquarium and Shibuya sky.
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Arigato Gozaimasu