What do you think of the pace of the trip?
It’s my first time in Japan, I’m into wine, gin, matcha, food, onsens, nature, culture and history.
I may or may not be at a gin bar each evening 😃
Thanks for your comments!
22nd November evening – Osaka
· landing in Osaka Kansai at 7pm
· walk around Dotonbori if time allows
· Sleep near Namba station
23rd November – Osaka
· Osaka castle
· Izakaya Toyo?
· Cup noodles museum
· Dotonbori
· Sleep near Namba station
24th November – Nara
· Travel from Osaka to Nara (activate the 14 days JR pass?)
· Naramachi Koshi-no-Ie
· Nara Park
· Yoshikien garden
· Walk around and see some temples – check which ones
· Sleep in Kyoto, near Takaragaike station
25th November – Kyoto
· Shugakuin Imperial Villa
· Shisen-dō (Jōzan-ji) Temple
· Chado Research Center Galleries tea ceremony/ Kouroan tea shop & farm
26th November – Kyoto
· Check out from hotel and move to the other one near Kyoto station – send baggage?
· Golden temple
· Tea Ceremony Camellia GARDEN/Taizō-in Temple
· Shiorian
· Funaoka Onsen
· Kamisichiken– watch something here?
· GIN BAR C&D 先斗町
27th November – Kyoto
· Otagi Nenbutsu-ji Temple
· Adashino Nenbutsuji Temple
· Giōji Temple
· Arashiyama Park
· Tenzan no Yu onsen
· SiCX京都蒸溜所 Gin Distillery & Cafe Bar
· Kyoto Geisha Show & Experience GION MAIKOYA/ Gion Kōbu Kaburenjō
– watch something here?
28th Nov
· Inari
· MANDARACHA – 曼荼羅茶 tea ceremony?
· Gion – geisha district
· Eikan-dō (Zenrin-ji) Temple
· Philophers walk
· Kodai ji – evening lights
· 季の美ハウス / House of KI NO BI
29th November – Kyoto
· Kyoto Int. Manga Museum
· Buffer day for anything that I’m still interested in/missed
· nokishita711 Gin and cocktail labo/ The Roots of all evil.
30th November – Kinosaki Onsen
· Travel to Toyooka hotel (2hrs)
· Go to Kinosaki Onsen and visit some onsens
· Kuruhidake summit/Kinosaki Onsen ropeway
· Sleep in Toyooka
1st Dec- Kinosaki Onsen
· Go back to KO if I feel like it and continue onsening
· Or go hiking
· Walk around Toyooka
· Sleep in Toyooka
2nd Dec – Travel day
· Travel from Toyooka to Fuji via Himeji – check out the castle (4,5 hrs + time in Himeji)
· Sleep in Kawaguchiko
3rd Dec – Kawaguchiko – Fuji san
· Ide sake brewery
· Ropeway
· Fujisan World Heritage Center
· Chureito pagoda
· Find an onsen
· Sleep in kawaguchiko
4th Dec Yamanashi
· Travel to Yamanashi (1+ hr)
· Wine tasting day in Yamanashi
· Sleep in Yamanashi
5th Dec – Tokyo Shibuya, Shinjuku
· Travel from Yamanashi to Tokyo (3hrs)
· Tokyo National Museum
· Origami Kaikan?
· Akihabara
· Sleep near Asakusabashi station
6th Dec – Tokyo
· Mori art museum
· Aoyama Farmers market
· Shibuya crossing
· Tokyo Government building
· Golden Gai
7th Dec – Tokyo
· Arashio-beya Sumo Stable
· Team lab
· Toyosu Market
8th Dec – Tokyo
· Disney sea?
9th Dec – Tokyo
· Ginza – shopping
· Anything I feel like
10th Dec – Tokyo
· Anything I feel like
· Fly out from Narita in the evening
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For your night in Kinosaki, I would highly recommend staying at one of the ryokans there for the full experience. You’ll be given a pass to go to any onsen for the duration of your stay and many of the ryokans do kaiseki dinners (often with Taijima beef and local crab, which are famous in the area). The town itself is also quite charming just to walk around in.
Hi!
I think your December 2nd travel day is going to be very hard. I would make sure to spend some time knowing what ties all the connections are you need to make to make it work. I am unsure if there are any limited expresses between Toyooka and Himeji, you might need to take a local or take a limited express to Sannomiya or Shin-Osaka and transfer. You then need to get from Himeji to Mishima to catch a bus, and I think they are reserved seat only . You could go all the way back to Tokyo, but then you need to get a train or bus from there to Kawaguchiko. I think it will just be a long day.
It’s too late now, but you could have just gotten a 7 day pass and been fine, I’m honestly not even sure that pays off, but I think it does?
Good luck!