Hello everyone and thank-you for any help offered. This will be my first time travelling internationally, let alone to Japan, so I’m a bit nervous and looking for any helpful advice and tips.
Right now my itinerary looks like:
Day 1-April 7th
* Arrive in Tokyo. Pick up pocket wifi, JR pass, and penguin card.
* Take JR to Kyoto
* Check out Kyoto Tower. Aeon Mall/Daiso for hand towel/sanitizer.
* Dinner.
* Sleep.
Day 2-Hoping to see some Cherry Blossoms still
* Kyoto Imperial Palace
* Hirano Jinja Shrine
* Ryoan-Ji
* \-KinkaKuji (if not too late/too crowded.)
* Maruyama park at night
Day 3-Last full day in Kyoto
* Fushimi Inari EARLY
* Back up to Kiyomizu Dera/Sannezeka
* Shinkyogoku
* Pntocho (night)
Day 4 – Heading back to Tokyo
* Check out Arashiyama /monkey in the morning
* Take JR back to Tokyo and check into Ginza hotel/meet back up with friends
Day 5 – Tokyo
* Take subway to Shinjuku-gyoemmae
* Get # from Soba house ramen
* Explore Shinjuku Gyoen
* Starbucks in Shinjuku if need drink
* Eat at Soba
* Don Quijote Shinjuku
* 2d Cafe
* Explore shinjuku (adidas, Sanrio for friends). Piss alley, Golden Gai
Day 6
* Senso-ji Temple
* Nakimase Dori (umbrella shopping? Clear with Sakura blossoms when it rains.) Kaminarimon gate.
* Hat coffee/Yakitori Torinao/Tonkatsu Sugita?
* Kappabashi kitchen knife shopping (need to ship back to Canada?)
* Wander through Ueno park
* Akihibara (ishibashi for dinner?) (Not the biggest into anime so any time spent there is fine)
Day 7
* Need to get up EARLY for Sushi Dai or Daiwa Sushi in Toyosu market
* Wander the market
* Teamlab planets?Borderless?
* Rainbow bridge view/Shibapark/Tokyo Tower->Imperial palace?
* Ginza Art Aquarium
* Ichiran Shimbashi for dinner?
Day 8
* Blue bottle coffee / Cafe Reissue 3d latte art
* Takeshita Dori / Wander Harajuku
* Shibuya Crossing/Shibuya Sky
* Go back to where I enjoyed at afternoon/night
Day 9
* Depending on flight time, check out something I liked or didn’t see yet that friends enjoyed.
Are there days where it’s too….packed? Things that I should shift around to work better? I’m hoping to catch the tail end of the cherry blossoms, but overall I’m just looking to try and get a taste of Japan, of travel, with this trip. I’ll be solo for a lot of it, but will know friends in Tokyo area who can help me out if I get too lost.
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Thank-you!
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Well we arrived at sushi DAI at around 805 on a monday morning and there was already a sign there saying all the places had been filled up for the day. We went to sushi daiwa instead. So u need to do better than me if u want to get a place.