There’s 3 adults going in Nov. traveling for shopping and sightseeing. We are not foodies and plan to just get food at stalls or fast restaurants. No bars either.
Arriving 4:50 at narita and expect to get to the hotel by 7 or 8 cause of customs and travel.
Day 1
7:30
Kaminarimon
Sensoji Temple
Nakamise
11:00
Akihabara
1:00
Meji Jingu
Yoyogi Park
Harajuku
4:00
Shibuya Scramble Crossing
Shibuya sky(we want to see it at night)
Day 2
8:30
Kamakura
11:00
Yokohama Chinatown
Gundam factory
5:00
Vampire cafe
Ginza
Day 3
DisneySea
Day 4
Earliest RomanceTrain
Hakone Shrine
Hakone Checkpoint
Hakone sightseeing cruise
Pirate boat ride
Hakone ropway
Owakudani
We might flip the loop -it depends. So we would go to Owakudani first and hakone shrine last.
Ryokan
Day 5
9:00
Hakone open air museum
12:00 head to Kyoto
Arrive by 4-5 to hotel
Explore gion
Day 6
6:30
Fushimi Inari
9:00
Kimono rental Service(located gion or Kiyiomizudera )
Kodaiji Temple
Heian Shrine
Nanzenji Temple
Kimono return? Here or after next temple?
Kiyiomizudera
7:00
Non verbal gear
Day 7
6:00
Arashiyama Bamboo grove
Tenryuji Temple
9:00
arashiyama monkey park
Kimono Forest
11:00
Sagano scenic Railway
Hozugawa Cruise(coming back)
3:00
SAMURAI & NINJA MUSEUM
Kiyiomizudera
Day 8
7:30
Nara park
Nandaimon Gate
Todaiji temple
Kasuga Taisha gardens
Kasuga taisha
12:00
Head to Osaka
1:30-2:00
Osaka Castle
Umeda Sky building
Dontontori
Abeno Harukas
Day 9
Universal studios
Day 10(is this doable?)
8:30
Himeji Castle
12:00
Hiroshima castle
Atomic Bomb dome
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
3:00
miyajima island
5-6
Back to Osaka
Day 11
7-8 am
Head to Tokyo
Depending on if I get tickets for studio ghibli museum or not we might stop at Nagoya for the free side of the ghibli park. If we get tickets, we will head to hotel drop off luggage and head to museum and skip Nagoya.
3-5
Tokyo joypolis til close at 8
Explore diver city
Day 12
9:00
Explore Shinjuku
12:00
Narita express
6:55 flight back
Is this a good itinerary?
We are buying a 7 jr pass starting the day we go to Kyoto. 2day Hakone pass go hakone.
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Even if you are not foodie, you can go to normal restaurant, there is lot of good and affordable places everywhere. Unless it’S just me who does not really understand your definition of food stall and fast food.
Day one, that is not a lot of time for Akihabara especially considering you will have to eat. Note that Yoyogi park in November is not that interesting, it’s just a park, not a garden. Ig you want to see a garden, go see a proper one like Koishikawa korakuen or Hama rikyu.
Day 10 is unrealistic. First part is ok, but the big problem is that getting to Miyajima at 5pm is useless as almost everything will be close at that time. You have to select 2 of the 3, Himeji, Hiroshima, Miyajima. Doing 3 is not really possible.
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For JR Pass, yep, pretty good. Buy it now from a reseller if you want the pre increase price.