Hi everybody, finally my time has come, 3rd time going to japan but with my wife this time for my honeymoon. We are not really into night life such as bar hopping, so it will be until around 8 or 9 PM each day. My wife wants something else other than shopping mall, and I want to shop for hobby
Need help just in case I made some mistakes, I booked all of the hotel and JR pass 7 days already:
17/04 – 02/05
17/04 Cathay transit to HK then to Tokyo
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18/04 Day 1 (Tokyo – Osaka):
Reach tokyo 7 in the morning, activate JR pass, get sim, go to osaka
Nanba
Den Den town (going to buy gunpla since I figured it is cheaper here than tokyo)
Team lab botanical
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19/04 Day 2 (Osaka):
USJ, but when I checked it, it might be raining, fingers crossed that it is not
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20/04 Day 3 (Osaka – Fukuoka):
Kuromon ichiba market
Osaka aquarium kaiyukan
Round one stadium? (2-3 hours all you can play, from arcade that do not dispense prize to sports game)
Go to Fukuoka in the afternoon (which takes around 3 hours)
Ramen stadium (best ramen shop and dish?)
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21/04 Day 4 (Fukuoka – Kyoto):
Lalaport to see nu gundam
Gundam base fukuoka for exclusive gunpla
More ramen
Go to kyoto in the afternoon
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22/04 Day 5 (Kyoto):
Now I think I put too much for this day, it seems doable if I go from very early in the morning? Maybe take off the bamboo forest?
Fushimi inari
Kiyomizu dera
Kinkakuji
Ashiyama bamboo forest
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23/04 Day 6 (Kyoto – Nara – Kobe – Hakone)
Since I just want to see the deer and kobe herb garden I think it is doable? If not, then kobe harborland also fine. I think I also put too much for this day
Go to Nara, Nara park
Go to Kobe: Kobe ropeway, nunobiki herb garden
Afternoon to Hakone
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24/04 Day 7 (Hakone):
*Last JR pass day
Buy Hakone pass for 2 days
Hakone ropeway
Owakudani
Sightseeing cruise for the lake
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25/04 Day 8 (Hakone – Tokyo)
Team lab planet
Odaiba diver city
*Anything else near this place? Ameyoko shopping district?
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26/05 Day 9 (Tokyo):
Disneysea
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27/04 Day 10 (Tokyo):
Disneyland
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28/04 Day 11 (Tokyo):
Sanrio Puroland
*Anything near this place that is interesting? Or anything that I should put in that is interesting?
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29/04 Day 12 (Tokyo):
Tsukiji market
Ginza aquarium art
Shibuya
Yoyogi park – meiji jingu shrine
Shopping at shibuya, shinjuku and harajuku
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30/04 Day 13 (Tokyo):
Senso ji temple
Skytree
Akiba
Nakano broadway
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01/05 Day 14 (Tokyo – Yokohama – Tokyo)
Gundam factory yokohama
Cosmo world (just for the arcade games)
Village vanguard
tokyo dome?
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02/05 Day 15:
Early in the morning to the airport
I am wondering if I can add more to tokyo part, seems so barren?
Thank you for the help 🙂
1 comment
Day 5 would be challenging using the bus/train system. Using a taxi would make it more doable.
I’d also recommend doing Ashiyama bamboo forest and Fushimi Inari in the morning (less crowded) and Kiyomizu Dera in the evening to catch the sunset over Kyoto.
Day 6 sound hard, but I guess you could take a train from Nara to Osaka to Kobe to prevent too much back tracking. But I’d expect the train to Hakone would be more in the evening than the afternoon.
Hotels in Japan offer luggage forwarding to another hotel, which might help since you seem to be switching cities in the afternoon. So you don’t have to carry/store your luggage in between hotels. Maybe even forwarding your luggage to skip a city, ie. forward your luggage from Kyoto to Tokyo and taking only an overnight bag for Hakone.
There also Odawara Castle to checkout. Odawara is where you’d make your way to Hakone from.
Since you might be getting to Sanrio through Shinjuku, you could go to Nakano Broadway on the way back? This would give more time in Akihabara.
Senso-ji, Skytree, and Aki is also a lot of shopping which means a log of bags. Nakano is on the other side of Tokyo, so you might not want to carry all that across town.
While at Diver City, Tokyo Joypolis is nearby. It has a bunch arcade, VR games and simulators.
Symphony Cruises does boat cruises around Tokyo Bay during the day and at night. It goes also goes under the Rainbow bridge.
Have a great trip.