Hello!! My husband and I are going to Japan for two weeks in late November and I just wanted to post my itinerary and see what ya’ll think. For reference, we are both 26 years old and anime/pop culture nerds, but I’m also a history teacher so we’re trying to do a mixture of shrines and fun things. Also, hotels are already booked so dates we’ll be in each city are set, I’m mostly checking for doability of everything else and maybe tips for travel.
Something to note: still determining whether it would be best to take a stop in Nara on our way to Kyoto or on our way from Kyoto back to Tokyo? We mostly would like to see the deer. Also we don’t really have meals planned so recommendations would be awesome!
Day 1:
Flight lands at 5:30PM at Narita airport
– take Kristi Narita Skyaccess to Sumida (where hotel is)
– check into hotel
– Tiny bit of sightseeing to pass the time near hotel before bed
– konbini dinner
Day 2
– Tokyo Disney Sea
Day 3
– Ghibli museum
– 10AM
– sightsee near hotel
– Senso-Ji temple
– Tokyo sky tree
Day 4
– Meiji shrine
– Harajuku
– Shibuya crossing
– Roppongi Hills Tower for view of the city
Day 5
– 10:30 AM Harry Potter studio tour
– Warner Bros. Studio Tour Tokyo
– Your Name stairs
– Near Suga Shrine
Day 6
Train to Kyoto
– check into hotel
– Sightsee
– Kyoto national museum
Day 7
– Nishiki Market
– Gion
– Kichi Kichi Omurice for dinner or lunch
– Kiyomizu-dera temple
Day 8
– Arashiyama
– bamboo forest
– Tenryu-ji temple
– Katsuya river
– Senko-Ji temple
– Kinkaku-Ji zen Buddhist temple
– Sagano scenic railway
Day 9
– train from Kyoto to Osaka early morning
– Shinsekai
– Osaka Castle
– Katsuo-ji temple
– Dotonbori area for dinner
Day 10
– Fushimi Inari shrine early morning
– Hanami-koji
– Eikan-Do temple
– Nanzen-ji temple
– Dinner at rooftop bar
Day 11
– train from Kyoto to Nara for a pit stop to see the deer?
– 45 minute train ride
– Train back to Kyoto then Kyoto to Tokyo
– 3 hours
– check into hotel
Day 12
– 11AM Tattoos
– Souvenir shopping!
– Akihabara
– Mandarake Complex
РPok̩mon center (DX)
– Takashiyama Department Store in Nihonbashi
Day 13
– souvenir shopping
– Kirby cafe
– Gundam factory Yokohama?
Day 14
– fly home from Narita airport
3 comments
For Kyoto:
Jump onto Kichi Kichi Omurice website to see their availability for reservations. I checked with weeks to go before I visited and they were fully booked. You could luck out as a walk in, but there might be quite a long wait.
For Tokyo:
An alternative route for your day 4 is to start around Shibuya, and move along Ometsando/Harajuku/Yoyogi Park and end up in Shinjuku towards the evening. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building has a free observation level, and it’s Shinjuku is a very lively area in the evening. If you’re needing to relax for the day, my partner and I squeezed in a visit to a mega bathhouse/onsen, Thermae-Yu which is near Shinjuku-sanchome Station.
G cu
did you get kirby cafe reservations? that shit is crazy