Hello! I will be traveling to Japan in a couple of weeks in December with a friend of mine and we’ll be staying in Shinjuku City. I made a rough itinerary for our trip in Tokyo specifically (the other half of our trip will be spent in Osaka/Kyoto/Nara/Kobe), so I was hoping to get some advice on how feasible this itinerary is and if there are things I am missing!
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**Day 1 -**
* Land in Tokyo @ 4:30 pm
* Get situated and head to Shinjuku
* Dinner @ Ramen Tatsunoya Shinjuku
* Walk around Shinjuku
* Don Quijote for random snacks, etc.
* Godzilla Head
* Omoide Yokochō for street food/drinks (any recommended locations in particular?)
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**Day 2 -**
* Get to Harajuku around \~ 9:00 am
* Takeshita Street – Walk around and find food for breakfast
* Visit Meiji-jingu Shrine in Yoyogi Park
* Lunch @ Butagumi
* Take transit to Shibuya Station
* Mega Don Quijote
* Pokemon Center
* Nintendo Store
* Shibuya Crossing
* Shibuya Sky (probably some time in the night)
* Hachiko
* Shibuya Center Gai
* Dinner @ The Bellwood
* Head back to Shinjuku for Golden Gai (bar recommendations?)
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**Day 3 -**
* Walk down Nakamise-dori
* basically find snacks for breakfast lol
* Walk across Sumida River
* Tokyo Skytree
* Lunch @ Hinoya Curry Akihabara
* Ueno Park
* Akihabara
* Gachapon Hall
* Super Potato, Mandrake Complex, Thrift Stores
* Bic Camera
* GiGO Akihabara Building 3
* Ushijima Shrine and Sumida Park to kill time before Dinner
* Dinner @ Jiromaru Akihabara
* Senso-ji Temple @ night
* Rainbow bridge @ night
* Roppongi for night life
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**Day 4 -**
* Maenohara Onsen Sayano Yudokoro for 5 hours
* Teamlabs
* Dinner @ Manten Sushi Marunouchi
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**Day 5 -**
* Get in line for Nakiryu Ramen
* Gotokuji Temple
* Inokashira Park
* Ghibli Museum
* Dinner @ Ponga Ebisu in Shibuya
* Club @ Womb Tokyo
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**Day 6 -**
* Breakfast @ Tsukiji Fish Market
* Hamarikyu Garden
* Tsutaya bookstore
* Walk around Ginza
* Take train for Osaka
* Bullet train bento for lunch XD
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*I also realized that we didn’t include ANY bakeries/cafes/desert places (not because we didn’t want to go, but because we genuinely forgot to) despite the fact that Japan is renowned for this sort of thing, so I am open to any of your recommendations!*
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Thank you all in advance!!
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Enjoy – I’ve been living outside Tokyo for 3 years. Japan is no utopia, but it’s definitely a great place!
For day 4, hope the 5 hours at Maenohara will be sufficient for you haha. When I planned it with my family in April, I ended up cancelling my entire afternoon and evening and just chilling with my family. We book private slots (men and women cannot bathe together due to city law so we booked different timeslots) and chilled until sundown, like 9 or 10pm. There’s also a Aeon mall nearby that my husband went to in the afternoon and then he came right back over for another bathing session.
Day 2 Takeshita St doesn’t really open until 11am. I would recommend going to Meiji Jingu shrine first, and earlier before it gets too busy.
Day 3 – Nakamise-dori is literally right outside Senso-ji so you might as well go then as well