This subreddit has been so informative to help us in planning our dream vacation. Thank you everyone for your wisdom and suggestions. Here is my itinerary, please let me know how it looks and if there is anything that we can improve on. I really tried not to pack too much into the days to leave time for exploration and discovery.
March 23
Haneda Airport
• Land at 1710
• Get welcome suica
• Get pocket wifi
Shinjuku
• Check in at Shinjuku hotel
• Dinner at Shin Udon
• Tokyo metropolitan building
March 24
Shinjuku
• Walk to hotel gracery and explore on the way
• Kabukicho tower
• Don Quiote
• Isetan (department store with food in basement)
• Back to hotel
• rokkasen shinjuku (dinner need to make reservations)
• Shinjuku Golden gai
March 25
Asakusa
• Sensoji temple
• Nakamise-dori st.
• –go to visitor center across from temple, take pictures from 8th floor
• Yorozu chaya (crazy parfaits)
Ueno park
• Cherry blossoms
Akihabara
• Dawn robot cafe
• Walk to culture zones, explore/have fun on the way
• Akiba culture zones
• M’s pop life department store
Sumida city
• Tokyo sky tree
• Dinner
• Senso-Ji at night depending how we are feeling
March 26
Ginza
• Teamlab planet (need to book)
• Joypolis
• Diver city
• Art aquarium
• Hama rikyu gardens
• Ninja restaurant for dinner (need reservations) in tokyo station
March 27
Nikko
• Nikko hotel
• Yudaki falls
• Ryuzu falls
• Kegan falls
March 28
Nikko
• Nikko Toshogu
• Taiyuimbyo Shrine
• Shinkyo bridge
• Kanmangafuchi Abyss
Shinjuku
• Shin okuba (little korea)
March 29
Tokyo station
Roppongi
• Mori tower
• Mori art museum
• Tokyo tower
• Hire shrine
Nakameguro
• cherry blossom festival
March 30
Shinjuku/last day
• Shinjuku gyoen national garden
• Nakano broadway
• Magical trip pub crawl (need to book
• Pack, yamato transport
March 31
Kyoto
• Kyoto hotel
• Nishiki market
• Gion (geisha district)
—-MACCHA HOUSE Kyoto
• kichi kichi omurice (need reservations)
• Nijo castle after hours (cherry blossom, need tix)
April 1
Kyoto
• Kiyomizu-dera temple
• Hōkan-ji Temple
• Yasaka pagoda
• Maruyama park
• Ramen cooking class by Ramen factory (need to book)
• Kyoto Imperial palace
• Gion yata (dinner need to make reservations)
April 2
• Fushimi inari taisha
• Kyoto samurai experience (need to book)
• itsuki chaya kyoto (need reservation)
April 3
Nara
• Rokumei coffee Co.
• Todai-ji temple
• Nara park
• Kasuga grand shrine
• Isuien garden
Kyoto
• Kawaramachi-dori Street
• Ship luggage to Osaka hotel
April 4
• Kinkakuji temple (gold temple)
• Hirano-jinja shrine
• Hidden Kyoto E-biking tour (goes to kinkakuji temple)
• Gyukatsu Kyoto Katsugyu – Ponto-cho Main Shop (dinner)
• Kyoto local bar crawl in gion and kawaramachi area
April 5
• Philosopher’s path
• Any other Kyoto stuff we would like to do
Osaka
• Osaka hotel
• Dotombori district
• Team lab osaka
April 6
• Osaka castle
• Osaka aquarium
• Shinsaibashi-suji shopping street
• Umeda sky building
• Osaka pub crawl
April 7
• Miyajima Hotel
• Miyagima ropeway
• Miyajima Omotesandō Shopping Street
• Itsukushima shrine
• Daisho-in temple
April 8
• Hiroshima
• Hiroshima peace museum
• Hiroshima peace memorial park/atomic bomb dome
• Mitaki-dera temple
• Back to Osaka hotel, ship luggage to shibuya hotel
April 9
Lake kawahuchiko ryoken
• Dinner off property
• Lake kawahuchiko sunset maybe?
April 10
• Mt fuji panoramic rope way
• Arakurayama Sengen Park
• Oishi park
• Dinner at hotel, 5pm. Get back to property at 4pm
April 11
Shibuya
• Shibuya hotel
• Mags park for shibuya crossing
• —one piece store here
• Myashita park
• Tonkatsu wako (food)
• Go kart (need to reserve)
April 12
Harajuku
• Takeshita street
• Banana no kamisama
• Kura sushi
• Yoyogi park
• Meiji shrine
• Den (make reservations 2/11 at 11pm)
• Ce la vi, skybar
April 13
• Shibuya scramble square
• Shibuya parko center mall
• Shibuya sky (need tix) go at night (check weather for best night)
• —shibu niwa (17th F) lounge
• Yakiniku Ikuta (dinner need to make reservations 3/29)
April 14
Fly home at 325pm
4 comments
You like curry? If so you gotta go to a restaurant Go Go Curry, omg sooo nice 😋
Your gonna have a great time, enjoy ☺️👍🏻maybe you’ll see some Sakura 🌸 if it’s early next year🤞🏻
I would do Kyoto-Hiroshima-Osaka. Kind of make no sense to do Osaka twice.
No idea if things are supposed to be in order but do Meiji-jingu first, stores in general do not open before 10-11am, and Harajuku/Takeshita streets are only shopping.
As someone who just spent 6 nights in the hotel next to gracery, your march 24 schedule is crazy light. First, as someone who wandered kabukicho area at 6am, throughout the day, and at past midnight, its a lot more interesting in the evening. You can spend your day elsewhere and go to the gracery hotel area late afternoon. The donki is open 24/7 so good to go to super early or super late to somewhat avoid masses of people. Istean pretty cool but lots of dept stores and malls have impressive food halls. My main point is what you listed can all be done in the late afternoon and evening. Golden gai is kind of cool and semi fun way to hang out with lot of western tourists. I would also minimize tokyo shopping until the end of your trip.