Any suggestions or recommendations are appreciated.
Also, will there still be any Cherry Blossoms around sapporo when we arrive on May 9-12, 2023? I believe they are the last ones to experience hanami. Thanks!
May 2 – Tuesday
• Arrival – 12:50PM (New schedule)
**Purchase train ticket going to Osaka (1hr)
AFTERNOON
*Shinsaibashi-suji
*Hozenji temple
*Okonomiyaki mizuno
*Ichiran
*Namba yasaka shrine
*Namba Parks
*Nipponbashi den den town – like akihabara
NIGHT
*Kuromon market (til 6pm only)
*Takoyaki – Aizuya resto (where takoyaki was inventeqbd)
*Fukutaro okonomiyaki
*Dotonbori – minami namba
*tombori river cruise in dotonbori
May 3 – Wednesday
*Osaka Castle (9am)
*Konamon Bar Rikyu – takoyaki; matcha ice cream
*Osaka museum
*tenjinbashisuji shotengai – longest shopping st in japan
*Osaka Tenmangu
*Ohatsu Tenjin – relationship shrine
*sonezaki ohatsutenjin-dori – shopping street
NIGHT
*Umeda sky building – floating garden observatory (39th flr)
*kimono (kyo-aruki umeda)
*umeda underground shopping mall (water tree; whity umeda izumi-no-hiroba)
*Okonomiyaki – basement of umeda
*East tower – 3rd floor take an elevator to 35th floor; from 35th, take escalator to 39th
floor of the west tower (1000yen fee before going two floors to open roof top sky walk
*35th floor – Observation deck
May 4 – Thursday
*Tenryu-hi Temple Kyoto (8:30am open)
*North exit of the temple to Arashiyama bamboo grove
*Okochi-sanso villa
*Kameyama-koen park
*Arashiyama Bamboo Forest – earliest train ride
*Nara (Nara Park/Todai-ji Temple/Hozanji; 7:30am todaiji open- leave early) – Halfday
*Abeno harukas – better to visit att night for beter view (tallest bldg in osaka); harukas 300 obs
deck
May 5 – Friday
*Kobe/Himeji/Hyogo
* Himeji Castle – 9am
* Akashi Kaikyo Bridge (azur maiko)
* Kitano-cho – ijinkan
* Sannomiya-Motomachi Area- Ijinkan ***
* Sannomiya Center Street
* Shin-kobe Ropeway – 9:30; Nunobiki Herb Garden (MiddleStation) – 10:00am
* Mt. Rokko (Mountain Resort..)
* Kobe Harborland – at night
* Meriken Park
* Kobe Port Tower – temp closed
* Ikuta Shrine
May 6 – Saturday ***
*Kyoto
– Ninenzaka – early 6am (starbucks – 8am)
– Yasaka dori
– Yasaka Pagoda – 10am (Southern Higashiyama; Yasaka-dori – should be early)
– Shirakawa canal
– Hanamikoji
– Shinbashi-dori
– Kiyomizu-dera Temple
– Sannenzaka
– Kinkaku-ji Temple – 9am
– Ginkaku-ji Temple – 9am
– Nishiki Market (10am)
– Fushimi Inari Shrine (Fushimi Jikkokubune) – always open
– Pontocho Alley **
May 7 – Sunday
*Cup noodles museum
*shitennoji temple
*Isshin-ji Temple
*Tsutenkaku tower – shinsekai
NIGHT
*teamlab botanical garden at night
May 8 – Monday
*USJ
May 9 – Tuesday
12:35PM flight to hokkaido
To Hokkaido Shin chitose (afternoon – Quintessa Hotel Sapporo)
*Nakajima Park ***
*Hokkaido Govt Office
*Sapporo Clock Tower
*Sapporo TV Tower
*Sapporo Beer Musuem ****
*Sapporo JR tower – 38th flr obs
*Nijo Market
May 10 – Wednesday
*Moai Statue/Stonehenge/Hill of the Buddha – 8:45am (Buses from makomanai station at
8:45am to moai or taxi from makomanai station to takino cemetery / moai statue)
*Chuo bus #16 – from bus stop infront of cemetery (japanese language in google not translated)
*Takino Suzuran Hillside National Park (9am ; Suzuran Kouen Chuo Guchi bus stop)
*From makomanai station to Moiwasan ropeway bus stop
*Mt Moiwa Observation deck/Ropeway
*Shiroi Koibito factory park
*Susukino at night and morning
May 11 – Thursday
***Moerenuma – 6:20am toho line (14mins walk from hotel)
*Higashi 69 kita satsunae sen bus (Moerenuma koen Higashiguchi) – Ainosato Kyoikudai
Eki – JR Gakuentoshi Line – Soen Station change to Hakodate Line – Otaru Station
*Otaru Station
*Temiya Park – cherry blossoms; Old temiya railway
*Sakaimachi dori – lunch
*Sushi Resto
*Glasswares
*OTaru Steam Clock
*Otaru Music box museum
*LeTAO main store – chocolate
*Ice cream – Kita-no Aisukurimu-ya-san (closed…)
*Denuki koji – melon ice cream
*Otaru Canal – sunset…? Cruise??
May 12 – Friday
*Maruyama Park – 24hrs
*Hokkaido Shrine (Jingu)
*To Nagoya *2:40PM flight to nagoya (APA Hotel Nagoya Sakae Kita)
*Nagoya TV tower at night
May 13 – Saturday
*Ghibli Park
May 14 – Sunday
*Nagoya Castle – 9AM
*Sakae District – shopping
*komehyo
*Dessert – uiro
*Osu Kannon Temple
*SKy Promenade – Midland Square (44-46th floors)
*Nabana no sato
May 15 – Monday
10:50AM flight back to manila – 2:10PM