Hello everyone, I’m going to Japan and I wanted to ask some important questions. My itinerary is shown below.
1. Which rail passes/cards would I need? This is my main concern as I have been researching this but some clarification would be greatly appreciated, especially when travelling to Osaka and Kyoto.
2. My traveling partner eats only chicken and some fish (this is just being selective), so I haven’t really put specific places for lunch or dinner (I don’t have any dietary requirements). Any recommendations for food places that are easily accessible to foreigners would be helpful.
3. Best options for cell data in Japan since my traveling partner doesn’t have international coverage?
4. Please feel free to recommend anything you think is good also my schedule might be alittle too packed so anything you think is too packed would be helpful for planning (not everything on the itinerary is absolute, only the things that are in bold and italic.)Thank you in advance.
Note: sorry about the weird text positioning, i was directly copying thing from my own excel sheet so the text is all over the place.
17/06/23 – Tokyo (Arrive/Shinjuku/Harajuku)
|Morning|Afternoon|Evening|Hotel|
|:-|:-|:-|:-|
|Hotel Check-In Hachiko Memorial Statue Shibuya Scramble Crossing|Animate Shibuya Pokemon Center Shibuya Lunch|Harajuku ***Shibuya Sky*** Dinner|Daiwa Roynet Hotel GINZA PREMIER|
18/06/23 – Tokyo (Akihabara/Ikebukuro)
|Morning|Afternoon|Evening|Hotel|
|:-|:-|:-|:-|
|Akihabara Radio Kaiken Mandarake Complex Cardshop Magi (+ other trading card stores) Fuku Fuku Toreka Lunch|Gashapon Ikebukuro Main Store Pokemon Center Mega Tokyo Sunshine City|Dinner|Daiwa Roynet Hotel GINZA PREMIER|
19/06/23 – Tokyo
|Morning|Afternoon|Evening|Hotel|
|:-|:-|:-|:-|
|Suga Jinja (pretty much a free day)|Lunch|Dinner (maybe Gyopao Gyoza Shinjuku ???)|Daiwa Roynet Hotel GINZA PREMIER|
20/06/23 – Tokyo (Odaiba)
|Morning|Afternoon|Evening|Hotel|
|:-|:-|:-|:-|
|***Pokemon Cafe***|Tsukiji Outer Market Odaiba Aqua City|Unicorn Gundam Statue Dinner|Daiwa Roynet Hotel GINZA PREMIER|
21/06/23 – Tokyo
|Morning|Afternoon|Evening|Hotel|
|:-|:-|:-|:-|
|Tokyo Skytree (Pokemon Center Skytree Town)|Lunch|Dinner|Daiwa Roynet Hotel GINZA PREMIER|
22/06/23 – Tokyo/Osaka
|Morning|Afternoon|Evening|Hotel|
|:-|:-|:-|:-|
|Check-Out of Hotel + Train to Osaka|Osaka Castle Kuromon Ichiba Market Dragon star Nippombashi-nigo (personal reasons) Nipponbashi Denden Town Shitenno-ji Shinsaibashi PARCO Check-In to Hotel to Lunch|Dontonbori America-mura Dinner|HOTEL THE FLAG Shinsaibashi|
23/06/23 – Osaka/Kyoto
|Morning|Afternoon|Evening|Hotel|
|:-|:-|:-|:-|
|Train to Kyoto Fushimi Inari Taisha Nishiki Market ***KIMONO TEA CEREMONY MAIKOYA KYOTO*** Lunch|Gion Yasaka-jinja Shrine Starbucks Coffee – Kyoto Ninenzaka Yasaka Chaya|Kiyomizu-dera Dinner (potentially Ramen Ten ???) Train back to Osaka|HOTEL THE FLAG Shinsaibashi|
24/06/23 – Osaka (Universal Studios Japan)
|Morning|Afternoon|Evening|Hotel|
|:-|:-|:-|:-|
|Universal Studios Japan|Universal Studios Japan Lunch|Universal Studios Japan Dinner|HOTEL THE FLAG Shinsaibashi|
25/06/23 – Osaka/Tokyo
|Morning|Afternoon|Evening|Hotel|
|:-|:-|:-|:-|
|Check Out of Hotel Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan???|Train back to Tokyo|Check-In to Hotel|HOTEL THE FLAG Shinsaibashi/ Haneda Excel Hotel Tokyo|
26/06/23 – Tokyo
|Morning|Afternoon|Evening|Hotel|
|:-|:-|:-|:-|
|Check Out of Hotel|Returning Home|Returning Home|Haneda Excel Hotel Tokyo|
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1 comment
For food you’re fine most places if you can eat fish and chicken. Can’t be picky around it though. Compared to the west I found they don’t really give a shit about your needs. The food is what it is. If you have dietary restriction at all, learn how to communicate that clearly in Japanese beforehand. I watched a girl jam Google translate in the chefs face and he pointed her out the door.