Im going to japan soon and was thinking of doing a day trip to osaka and kyoto. I was thinking of leaving tokyo at 5am on the shinkansen and then going to kyoto first and then taking a train to osaka after visiting a temple. Then taking the overnight train back to tokyo from osaka. Its about 25k yen for that trip.
I know this is kind of an insane trip, but I was just trying to see if I could get any advice on how to save money/make this trip a bit less stressful. I just want to see one temple in kyoto and eat in osaka.
Plan b would be to buy the jr arch/takayama-horkoriku pass, go to osaka first and then spend the night in kyoto and head back to tokyo on the slower train. That one runs around 19k yen plus hotel.
by ResistOk8440