Hi everyone,
I’m super excited about my upcoming trip to Japan and would love to know if there are any recommendations I should add to my schedule or just any tips on if i should remove/switch things around? 🙂
1st day land at 2:55pm
* Plan to pick up pocket wifi at Airport
* Head to Tokyo and check in hotel : Hotel The Celestine Tokyo Shiba
* Have an easy day and grab dinner from Katsudon-ya Zuicho \[ seems out of the way but closed on Sunday when i’m in the area \]
* Dessert – Hekkelun (if it reopens)
2nd day – shibuya, harajuku
* Head to Shibuya
* Lunch: Ichiran
* Shop / Walk – Takeshita Street + Tokyo Plaza
* Activity – Harajuku Terrace ( for the otters )
* Sight see – Shibuya crossing + Hachiko statue + Meji Shrine \[maybe?\]
* Activity – Shibuya sky late afternoon/sunset \[ buy tickets before ?? \]
* Dinner – Gyukatsu Motomura
3rd day – Ginza, Minato
* Activity – teamLab Planet Tokyo \[9:00 am, tickets secured\]
* Lunch – head to Tsukiji Market
* Shop – Tokyu Plaza Ginza // Ginza Six
* Dinner – Tsujihan
* Dessert – \[??\]
4th day – Shinjuku, Akihabara, and Asakusa
* Head to Asakusa
* Check out Sensoji temple + nakamise shopping street
* Head to Akihabara
* Lunch – \[searching\]
* Head over to Shinjuku
* Activity – go kart \[maybe?\]
* Dinner – stroll Omoide Yokocho
* Sight see – walk around Kabukicho
5th day – Disney
* Try to ship luggages to Kyoto using transport service before heading out
* Head to Disney Sea and spend majority day there \[lunch, dinner\]
6th day – Kyoto
* Grab lunch from Ekibenya Matsuri
* Take bullet train down to Kyoto \[sit on right side to get view of mountain – according to tik tok lol)
* Check in Hyatt Place Kyoto
* Dinner – Kichi Kichi Omurice \[if we can get reservations\]
* Dessert – \[searching\]
* After dinner – explore gion geisha district
7th day – Kyoto
* Coffee Shop at % Arabica in Arashiyama
* Activity – Arashiyama Bamboo \[early morning\]
* Lunch – Nishiki Market
* Activity – Fushimi Inari Taisha
* Activity – Higashiyama District
* Activity – Hokan-ji Temple
* Dinner – \[searching\]
* Dessert – \[searching\]
8th day – Kyoto / Osaka
* Cafe – Ippodo Tea
* Take train or bus to get to KIX airport
* Drop wifi bank
* Fly to Taiwan
Thank you 🙂
2 comments
Don’t do the go karts in the streets is all the advice I can give. A lot of locals here hate it including me, they’re loud, disruptive, and dangerous.
im not sure that kyoto day can be like that. at the very least its gonna be “yeah, we’ve been here, now lets go”
if you have one day in kyoto (and you do) – stick with higashiyama, starting with kiyomizudera and working your way north and along ther philosophers path as far as you can
after closing you can head towards gion and explore or try to see fushimi inari at dark…
(also note, you can visit yasaka near gion in the evening)