I noticed a bunch of other people have done this so I thought if would be fun and useful to do the same. So here’s my itinerary. Also I do have resos for places like Team labs and some of the Kyoto palaces that require registration. If you see something that you think I don’t have a reso for, please mention it. Also the order of some of these things can be rearranged, especially the travel days. I also DESPERATELY need food recommendations.
April 12th – Friday
Flight from Toronto to Calgary at 11am
Terminal 3
Flight number WS 657
Arrive at Calgary and then depart for Tokyo at 3pm
Flight number WS 80
April 13th – Travel day – Saturday – Akihabara
Arrive in Tokyo at 4:30pm in Terminal 1
Will probably have my bags sent to my hostel but will have to see.
Check in at Hostel
Maybe quickly check out Senso-ji, but it’s super close so should be able to see it early any time
GO to Dandelion Chocolate Factor and Cafe
Walk around the surrounding area, chill out a bit. Maybe spend the evening at Akihabara and can also do Taito Game Station
There’s also an animate store but we’ll try to go to the main one
Warhammer store
Owl cafe
April 14th Sunday – Museums and technically Akihabara
Senso-ji early morning and Kaminarimon Gate
Tokyo National Museum
National Museum of nature and science is right next to the national museum
Get more info for Ryogoku Kokugikan National Sumo Arena
Need to figure out where to spend the evening, but could just go back to Akihabara
Owl cafe
April 15th – Monday -Ginza
Tsukiji Market first thing, opens at 5am, will try to get there by 6-7am
and the Imperial Palace opens at 9am -11:15am
Ginza art aquarium 12pm
Team Labs planet reso at 17:30 / 5:30
Head back and maybe walk around Ginza a bit
Yanaka old town
April 16th – Tuesday Minato / Shibuya
Zojo-ji temple
Prince Shiba park
Team labs in the morning, –:11:30am
maybe spend time checking out Minato City, Tokyo Tower
Take train to Shibuya and spend the rest of the day there probably, and try to see the meiji shrine which closes at 4pm
Takeshita street
April 17th – Wednesday – Shinjuku
Animate
Shinjuku national park
Meji shrine if you don’t get the chance before
Spend evening in Shibuya
April 18th – Thursday – Fuji – Hakone
Hakone Museum of Art
Hakone Shrine
Hakone Onsen – 4 Tonosawa, Hakone – machi, Ashigarashimo – gun, Kanagawa 250 – 0315
https://www.hakoneyuryo.jp/english/spa/hotspring/
Kuzuryu Shrine Shingu
Spend evening probably in Shinjuku
April 19th Friday – Tokyo to Osaka
Going to try to get here as early as possible.
Walk around dotonbori and eat
Might be able to do some of the stuff I have reserved on the 20th for today and then do Osaka castle all day on the 20th or go to Kyoto
Shitennoji first
Shinsekait
Osaka Castle 9am – 5pm
April 20th Saturday- Kyoto
Kyoto Imperial palace – 9am to 5pm- Free
Free guided tours from 10:00am and 14:00
Also an audio guide https://www.kunaicho.go.jp/e-event/app.html
Kyoto Sento Palace -9:30am
Nijo Castle – 8:45am – 4-pm – about 2000 yen if I want to see if everything
April 21st Sunday – Kyoto
Shugakuin Imperial Villa –9am
Ginkaku-ji – 8:40am to -5pm – 500 yen
Nishiki Market
April 22nd – Monday – Kyoto
Kinkaku-ji – 9am-5pm – 500 yen
Heian Shrine
Nazen Temple
Kiyomiza-dera
Rengeō-in (Sanjūsangen-dō) Temple (IF WE CAN FIT)
April 23rd – Tuesday – Kyoto
Fushimi Inari Taisha – Open 24 hours (NOW I MIGHT DO THIS ON ONE OF THE OTHE KYOTO DAYS BECAUSE IT’S ALWAYS OPEN IF I DON’T GET THE OSAKA STUFF DONE but it does take 2 – 3 hours so I should invest some time.
Kyoto National Museum
April 24th – Wednesday – Nara
From the looks of it, I can spend maybe a quarter of the day in Nara and then choose for the rest of it to be a make up day. I can either go to Osaka and maybe catch up there and do some shopping or go to Kyoto to finish anything I didn’t do.
I’ll hit up the Toaiji Temple, the Nara park, and the Isuien Garden, everything else will be extra bit
April 25th – Osaka to Kyoto – home time
Will get breakfast in Osaka unless I remember an awesome place in Tokyo, then Tokyo will be my breakfast spot.
by jbaayoun