Hello, I have officially booked my tickets from March 10th to April 12th, without plane travel that gives me 32 days in Japan. Below is my plans, does it make sense? Is there something I should switch out / replace? I am a photographer and am mostly planning to be up early every day to hopefully beat some of the rush to go take some photos of the major attractions. Besides the general, I have some specific questions:
1. **The only thing booked in terms of accommodation is the lake kawaguchi ryokan, check in is 4pm, I checked on google maps I would have to leave Fukuoka 5am, is that possible?**
2. **Also for Kawaguchiko does anyone know if taxis can be called early? I would love to catch sunrise at Chureito Pagoda but unsure of if buses or taxis can be called in the area at 5/6am.**
3. **Do attractions like the skytree, tower, pokemon/kirby cafes, pokemon center, teamlabs etc all need a month in advance booking or is there things I should be booking this month? Like tickets for the train(s)?**
4. **I am under the impression rush hour is 8am-11am and 3pm to 5pm is that correct? Would it best to avoid attractions that time and go either early morning / late night and just grab food during the rush hours?**
5. **I plan to use luggage forwarding where I can, where I can’t, do ALL 7/11 have the service? So could I just ship to the nearest 7/11 to my hotel if my hotel does not accept luggage forwarding?**
Thank you for taking the time to read this, I am very excited for the trip so regardless I think it will be a good time.
|Date|City/Stay|Area|Comments|
|:-|:-|:-|:-|
|03/10|CALGARY|Airport||
|03/11|TOKYO|???|Arrive 4pm|
|03/12|TOKYO|Shinjuku||
|03/13|TOKYO|Shibuya||
|03/14|TOKYO|Taito City||
|03/15|TOKYO|Koto City||
|03/16|TOKYO|Minato City|Weekend|
|03/17|YOKOHAMA||Weekend|
|03/18|YOKOHAMA|||
|03/19|KYOTO|Higashiyama South||
|03/20|KYOTO|Higashiyama North||
|03/21|KYOTO|Yamashina||
|03/22|KYOTO|Arashiyama||
|03/23|KYOTO|Nakagyo|Weekend|
|03/24|KYOTO|\-|Weekend|
|03/25|KYOTO|\-||
|03/26|OSAKA|Dotonbori||
|03/27|OSAKA|Umeda||
|03/28|OSAKA|Shinsekai||
|03/29|OSAKA|NARA|Day Trip|
|03/30|OSAKA|KOBE + HIMEJI|Weekend, Day Trip|
|03/31|OSAKA|???|Weekend|
|04/1|HIROSHIMA|MIYAJIMA||
|04/2|HIROSHIMA|\-||
|04/3|FUKUOKA|\-||
|04/4|FUKUOKA|\-||
|04/5|MT FUJI|Kawaguchiko|Check in ryokan 4pm|
|04/6|MT FUJI|\-|Weekend, checkout 10|
|05/7|MT FUJI|Hakone|Weekend|
|04/8|TOKYO|???||
|04/9|TOKYO|???||
|04/10|TOKYO|???||
|04/11|TOKYO|???||
|04/12|TOKYO|Airport|Depart 3pm|
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