Had the opportunity to start my trip solo 11 days before my wife. So I’ve been planning this last minute. I don’t speak any Japanese and have never been to Japan or traveled internationally outside of US/Mexico. Plans are kind of optimistic, but let me know if I should take anything off or move it around.
10/22
LAX-HND
10/23
-Land HND 2pm
-Check in WPU-Shinjuku
-Walk around/shop for necessities
-Omoide Yokocho
10/24
-National Museum of Nature and Science
-Ueno Park
-Ueno Ameyoko Shopping Street
-Kanda Myoujin Shrine
-Asahi Headquarters 22nd floor
10/25
-Tsukiji Outer Market or Toyosu Wholesale Fish Market
-TeamLab Planets
-Shop around Ginza Malls/Uniqlo flagship store
-Hie Shrine
-Trader Vic’s
-Head back to Shinjuku
10/26
-Check out hotel in Shinjuku, get hotel in Yokohama
-Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum
-Sankeien Garden
-Kirin tour?
-Check out local brewery
-Yokohama Chinatown
-Walk around Minatomirai
-Stay overnight
10/27
Kamakura
-Kotoku-in
-Tsurugaoka Hachimangu
-Hokokuji Bamboo Forest
-Hang out seaside
-Komachi-dori Street
-Go back to Yokohama hotel and stay around that area
10/28-10/30
-Check out of Yokohama hotel, head to Nikko
-Nikko World Heritage Monument
-Kanmangafuchi Abyss
-Nikkō Tōshogū
Other shrines
-Kirifuri Falls
-Head out of Nikko 10/30 and go back to Tokyo
10/30-31
Tokyo
-Go back to an area I want to spend more time in
-sign up for an experience on Airbnb/Klook
-Halloween
11/1
-Leave Tokyo for Himeji castle
-Koko-en
-Otokoyama Hachimangu shrine
-Head to Kobe hotel
-Kobe Chinatown
-Nunobiki Falls (Ontaki / Meotodaki)
-Kobe Nunobiki Herb Gardens & Ropeway
-Kazan Room
-Find a Kobe beef restaurant
11/2
-Head to Hiroshima
-Peace Memorial Park – Hiroshima
-Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
-Atomic Bomb Dome
-okonomiyaki sit down restaurant
-Spend the night in Hiroshima
11/3
-Miyajima
-Mount Misen
-Itsukushima Jinja Gojūnotō
-Itsukushima Shrine
-Momijidani Park
-Head to Osaka to check in hotel
-Take train to pick up wife from KIX
11/3 Night
Check into Dotonbori Hotel
Dontonbori
-cheese coin Daio cheese Jurn-pan⭐️
-Takoyaki Dontonbori Kukuru, honke otako, creo-ru,takohachi, jugachihan and Acchichi-honpo (opens early) and oforido ⭐️
-kanidoraku⭐️
-kyabetsutaki ⭐️
-kin-no-torikara⭐️
-Osaka Osho⭐️
⁃ strawberry mania
⁃ Kinryu ramen
⁃ Kushikatsu
11/4 full day
Cafe LA or Coffee house Iris
Osaka castle (outside only, maybe take a boat ride?)😀
Izakaya Toyo (as seen on YouTube) or Kuromon market
-shinuoei
-mango-soho
-Oide (Sando)
-uomaru (sashimi)
Nintendo/pokemon Osaka
Shinsekai?
Kushikatsu?
11/5 morning
Get food at train station?
11/5-11/6 (Kinosaki)
11/5 afternoon and night
Check into Kinosaki (3 PM), if we get there early leave luggage at train station
Onsen
Motosue (tamago pan)
Kinosaki sweets
Kyushu ueda (beef, menchi katsu and skewer)
Kacho-an (Chinese bun)
Kinosaki tokiwa garden (milk coffee)
Kinosaki imitate hyakusen (cream croquette snow crab and beef croquette)
Kinosaki gelato cafe Chaya (cook eggs in hot spring water)
Kinosaki ashiyu cafe (sweet shop, has foot bath inside and you can use if you buy one item per person)
Shopping:
Furuya bussanten
Igaya
Dinner at hotel
Go back out after dinner
11/6 morning
Breakfast in room
Go anywhere we missed they day before
11/7-11/9 (Kyoto)
11/6 afternoon and night
Starbucks
Ninenzaka
Hōkan-ji shrine
Kiyomizudera (3 waters)⭐️
Dinner at Wagyu Volcano OAGARI
Yasaka Shrine
11/7 full day
Fushimi Inari (shrine with red gates)⭐️
Arashiyama and Sagano (bamboo grove, monkey park)⭐️
Kyo-Kaiseki (food)
Kinkakuji (gold temple)⭐️
Ginkakuji (silver temple)⭐️
Yasaka Pagoda⭐️
What to eat?????
Kyo-Kaiseki (food)
Nishiki Market
Traveler’s Factory Store (Gigi)
Tempura Endo (best tempura restaurant)⭐️
Pontocho ally (bars)
Ohmi Beef
11/8 full day
Nara day trip
Take Aoniyoshi train
Todaiji Temple
Yomogi Mochi
Deer
Lunch at Gyukatsu Kyoto Katsugyu – Nara Park
Honke Kikuya Nara Store
Izasa Restaurant Sanjō Branch
11/9-11/13 (Tokyo)
11/9 afternoon and night
Harijuku
Takeshita Street
Udon Iroha
Meiji jingu temple
LOST bar (walk in only, open from 2-11 pm)
Hachiko Memorial Statue
Shibuya scramble
Omakase dinner at 5:30 PM
Shibuya sky?
11/10 full day
Shopping
Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden
Nabezo Shinjuku Sanchome Store (lunch)
Sensoji Temple
Nakamise-dori Street
Eat dinner near shinjuku station
Golden gai?
11/11 full day
Team labs borderless (enter between 9:30 and 10)
Tokyo tower 🗼 or Sky Tree
Zoo-ji Temple
Tera cafe 🍵
Sushi Ko or Karashibi Miso Ramen Kikanbō Kanda Honten for lunch (or make our way to Tsukiji outer market)
Imperial palace
Harry Potter store?
Take train back to hotel
11/12 full day
Tokyo Disney Sea
11/13 morning
No plans
Head to NRT for 6PM flight home to LAX
by doyle_brah