This is my second time to go to Japan. Last time I spent 7 days in Tokyo and Kyoto. This time I’m going back to pretty much solely to check out the cherry blossoms to cross it off my bucket list. I also plan on definitely checking out Yokohama/Nara/Osaka which is new. Any thoughts on my itinerary. Like should I switch any days around etc? I find that it looks okay for the most part. A lot of it is shopping/cherry blossom viewing. I won’t go to all the cherry blossom sights, just suggestions for myself.
Day 1- March 23- Thursday- **Tokyo Rest Day**
· Rest day
· Check in
· JR Pass
· Imperial Palace- Cherry Blossoms
o Chidorigfafuchi Moat Hanami
· Other Hanami spots
o Sumida Park Hanami- cherry blossoms
o Ueno Park Hanami
· Team Lab Planets- Make Reservation (10-8pm), 3200 yen
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Day 2- March 24- Friday- **Tokyo/Yokohama**
· Yokohama Chinatown
· Pokemon Center Dx 1030-9pm
· Yamashita Park Hanami
· Minato Mirai 21
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Day 3- March 25- Saturday- **Hakone**
· Book tour, $146.46
o Meet time @ 720 depart 730
o Matsuya Ginza 3-chome-6-1 Ginza, Chuo City, Tokyo 104-8130
· Mt. Fuji 5th station
· Shinobi No Sato Ninja Village
· Owaku-dani Village
· Hakone Ropeway
· Lake Ashinoko
· Hakone Shrine
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Day 4- March 26- Sunday- **Osaka**
· Osaka Castle+Park- 9-9pm
· Dotomobori District- after 8pm gets lively
· Shinsaibashi-suji Shopping Street
· Kema Sakuranomiya Park Hanami
· Minami shopping
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Day 5- March 27- Monday- **Nara**
· Nara Park
· Todaiji Temple- 730-530pm
· Kasuga Grand Shrine 6-6pm
· Kofuku-ji Temple 9-5pm
· Higashimuki Shopping Street + Mochiidono Arcade
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Day 6- March 28- Tuesday- **Kyoto**
· Kinkakuji Temple- 9-5pm
· Kyoto Imperial Palace 9-320pm
· Nijo Castle- 845-5pm
· Maruyama Park Hanami
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Day 7- March 29- Wednesday- **Kyoto**
· Arashiyama Bamboo Grove
· Monkey Park- 9-4
· Sagano Romantic Train
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Day 8- March 30- Thursday- **Hiroshima**
· Atomic Bomb Museum 830-530
· Himeji Castle 9-4
· Ferry to Miyajima or return to Tokyo, leave open for cherry blossom, don’t need to go to Himeji/Hiroshima
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Day 9- March 31- Friday- **Miyajama or Tokyo**
· Finish anything I miss on way back. Free day, don’t necessarily need to go to Miyajama
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Day 10- April 1st- Saturday- **Tokyo**
· Finish anything I missed. Free day.
· Fly back
· Book late flight
2 comments
You have Day 1 as a rest day but yet you are doing a lot of stuff. I hope jetlag is kind to you.
Also you should go ahead and get your teamlabs tickets as they’re selling out.
And the way you’re talking you haven’t really booked anything yet so I’d say go ahead and do that *now*. Things are selling out quickly, and that was weeks ago.
On March 25/26, anime japan is at tokyo big sight if you’re interested.