Hello Guys,
My wife and I am going to our honeymoon to Korea and Japan, the below is our itinerary for Japan. We hope to don’t be JetLag as we will be one week already in Korea. We still have some slots available that we don’t know which activities we could use to fulfill those spaces, for us would mean a lot if you could have a look and provide some tips on how to improve our travel.
We are not buying JP Rail Pass as it will be more expensive, in Osaka we are using daily metro/bus ticket for the days we are spending more than 800Yen in transport and for Kyoto one day we will do tickets and the other we will use a bicycle. For Tokyo most probably a Suica card.
The activities below that require a ticket have been purchased, only missing the Tokyo Art Aquarium and the Disneyland half day ticket because we need to call as they will not accept our credit cards.
Osaka 27 March:
* Airport to Hotel
* Hotel to Shinsekai Market
* Walk to Nipponshabi Den Den Town
* Den Den Town to Kuromon Market
* Doguyasuji Shotengai
* Hozenji Yokocho
* Dontobori
Osaka 28 March:
* Osaka Museum of housing and living
* Osaka Castle
* Shitennoji Temple
* Sumiyoshi Taisha
* Harukas 300
* Team Lab Botanical Garden
Osaka 29 March – Full Day Universal Studios.
Osaka 30 March:
* Yasaka Shrine
* We have 3 hours without any activity, and we are not interested in the aquarium.
* Osaka Station City
* Kema Sakuranomiya Park
* Shinshabaisi
* Rikuro Cheesecake.
Kyoto 31 March: Here we will send our luggage to our hotel and depart from Osaka directly to Ginkakuji
* Ginkakuji
* Philosopher Path
* Nanzenji
* Keage Incline
* Heian Shrine
* Yasaka Shrine
* Kodaji Temple
* Kiyomizudera – Tatami Starbucks
* Higashi Hongan – JI
* 6PM we will do the Glanta Workshop Experience
* Higashiyama Streets at night.
Kyoto 1 of April:
* Suhimi Inari Taisha
* Kinkakuki Temple
* Togetsukyo Bridge
* Tenryuji
* Bamboo Groves
* Bycicle to Jojakkoji
* Gioji
* Saga-Toriimoto Street
* Otagi Nenbutsuji
* Pokemon Center Kyoto
* Nishiki Market
Tokyo 2 of April:
Bullet Train in the morning arrival to Tokyo 10:30. Same lugagge will be send to Hotel.
* Meiji Shrine
* Takeshita Street
* Omotesando
* Shibuya
* Shinjuku
* Pokemon Cafe at 6:00PM
Tokyo 3 of April:
* Morning is free we need ideas
* Harajaku around 11:00AM
* Shibuya and Shibuya Sky.
* Tokyo Art Aquarium – One hours is enough? Or maybe do this on the morning.
* Sensoji Temple
* Akihabara Street
* Go to a Kura Sushi
* Shibuya Street and so some shopping.
Tokyo 4 of April:
* Ginza
* Kit Kat confectionary
* Pokemon Center Mega
* We are going to eat at Sushi Sakamoto
* Explore Around Chuo and Chidoya Park – Uniqlo Ginza – Tokyo Tower.
* 5:00 PM to end of the day Disneyland.
Tokyo 5 of April – Full day at Disney Sea.
Tokyo 6 of April we have from 8:00 AM to 10:30 free as we will need to start going to Narita at 11:00 AM for our flight at 2:00PM.
Thanks for reading and your tips, I am booking the kyoto yo Tokyo train today.
5 comments
>Kyoto 1 of April:
Do you intend to do these things in order? Because it’s kind of like this on a lot of days but this one more than others: you are pingponging and back tracking all over Kyoto. Fushimi Inari can take 2-3 hours to do. Then you’re going an hour north and west for Kinkaku-ji, Then about 45 minutes south for the bridge. But then going north again for the next couple of temples. Then you’re going an hour east again for the Pokemon Center. And Nishiki Market closes at 5pm.
That’s just…too much. You should look all the places up, from all of your days, on google maps and see which ones are in similar areas. Check what times they open/close. Then group them together based on that.
>Tokyo 3 of April
Same advice as above. Look your stuff up on google maps and group it together. You have Harajuku listed here, but Takeshita St on the 2nd; Takeshita St is *the* thing in Harajuku.
You’re also going back to Shibuya this day, then going over to Asakusa, Akihabara, then *back* to Shibuya?
>Akihabara Street
Akihabara isn’t a street, it’s a whole neighborhood/district. There’s a ton of stuff there.
>Tokyo 4 of April
This is also going back and forth across Tokyo.
All in all I’d say you’ve got a lot of stuff that just needs to be tightened up a little, and organized geographically a little more. Using google maps and “saving” the locations is super helpful because it pins them to your map so you can always see what’s near other things.
I feel Kyoto Apr 1 is too ambitious. I’ll peronally move Fushimi Inari the next morning before heading to Tokyo and arrive just in time for hotel check-in
Your days back in tokyo seem repetitive? Takeshita st=harajuku, art aquarium=ginza, better lump the activities and places together in 1 day or half day
5pm at Disneyland? You must only be after the parade?
Wow awesome awesome! I’m Jap/Kor so it’s absolutely great honor to welcome you two to my home towns, I really appreciated.
Your itinerary looks perfect, but there are my ideas to make it more Japanese-ish. If you want to go sushi go round, I do recommend that you should go “Nemuro Hanamaru KITTE Marunouchi” rather than Kura-sushi for dinner on 3 Apr. I think they offer freshest, best quality sushi, and highest cost performance. And why don’t you go to “Misojyu” for breakfast on the same day where you can eat miso soup and traditional Jap breakfast it’s so good?
And personally I do love Rikuro’s “maki-pie” rather than the cheese cake, of course the cheese cake is so good!
I really really hope you guys have a wonderful and memorable time in Japan and Korea♡ I’m always in Tokyo so If there are any issues whatssoever, please don’t hesitate to contact me asap to let me know.
From just a cursory glance; you seem like you have too much stuff going on during each given day. I would pick 2 or 3 things and then just focus on those, and then have other things in mind if you find yourself with some extra time.
I’ve been planning my own trip (although we will travel much more slowly and also mostly in the Nagano region) around these areas. This is what I had planned for Tokyo and Kyoto.
It has been well over a decade since I’ve been to Tokyo so things have likely changed but I had it separated it into three separate areas, which might still be too ambitious. I doubt we get to everything but that’s okay.
1) east side Tokyo: Asakusa, Ueno Park, Tokyo National Museum, Akihabara, Imperial Palace
2) west side Tokyo: Harajuku, Meiji-jingu Shrine, Takeshita Dori and Omotesando, Shibuya
3) we are going to see the studio Ghilbi museum on in the morning, then check out Shinjuku Kouen and walk around Shinjuku. Maybe visit Ginza or Roppongi at night for dinner.
For Kyoto (I’ve never been so I don’t know how feasible or ambitious this is but I did plug it into Google maps).
1) Kinkakuji (Golden Temple) in morning, then to Arashiyama
2) Fushimi Inari Taisha, Ginkakuji (Silver Temple), Philosopher’s Path, Higashiyama, Kiyomizu Dera
For Osaka, maybe you can consider a half day trip to Himeji Castle? Apparently it’s a UNESCO site and also one of only 12 original castles in Japan to have survived WWII.
Congratulations and I wish you a very fun honeymoon!