Hi Japan lovers 🙂
We’re a couple (gay if relevant) in our mid-30s visiting Japan for the first time next fall. We’ve been waiting for this trip for around 3 years !!
On holidays we like to visit castles and temples, hike and discover nature, meet with local people (hopefully the hours spent on duolingo will be useful), cook and taste new food… Also we’re quite geeky : we can’t be in japan and miss important anime or video games exhibitions !
As an archer, I’d like to try kyudo, but finding places fit for non japanese-fluent seems difficult.
Here’s the itinerary we thought of (nothing is booked but the flights in/out), do you have any recommendations about places to go, tips for accomodation, things to do, cities in which to spend less/more time… ?
**22/09-28/09 (6 nights) : Tokyo**
* Ghibli Museum
* parc Ueno
* national day ?
* sights : sky street buildng / tokyo tower / metropolitan
* asaksa : temples
**28/09-29/09 (1 night) : Matsumoto**
* Castle
**29/09-05/10 (6 nights) : Kyoto**
* fushiminari
* Gold Temple / Silver Temple
* Nijojo castle
* yasakajinja –> temple kyomisu
* Nara
* Osaka
* Kobe
**05/10-06/10 (1 night) : Hiroshima**
* Miyajima
* peace park
**06/10-07/10 (1 night) : Gifu**
**07/10-08/10 (1 night) : Shirakawa-Go**
**08/10-14/10 (6 nights) : Takayama**
* Matsuri
* onsen (Gero)
* temples
* sports day ?
**14/10-15/10 (1 night) : Hakone**
**15/10-17/10 (2 nights) : Tokyo**