Day 0 **Dec 19th**: *Getting There* 8:00 Wake up at – Last minute packing – 8:30 Meet up with everyone – 8:30 Drive to LAX – 9:30 Arrive at LAX – Get through Airport Check-In – 3:35 Take Off
Day 1 **Dec 20th**: *Arriving there* at 4:30 Land at Haneda Airport – Get through customs – Go to Hotel – rest
Day 2 **Dec 21st**: Shinkansen to Hakodate in the morning 9:36 – 1:33
Tropical Botanical Garden- Afternoon
Day 3 **Dec 22nd**:Hakodate
Hakodate Morning Market – Kanemori Red Brick Warehouse – Goryokaku – Mt. Hakodate Observatory – end
Day 4 **Dec 23rd**: Check out Hakodate – Shinkansen to Osaka connecting through Tokyo Station 12:48-17:04 ————– 18:03 – 21:09 OR 10:21-18:27 – Get to Hotel – End
\*Day 5 **Dec 24th**: Osaka
Universal Studios Japan
Day 6 **Dec 25th** Osaka
Dotonbori – Ebisu tower – America-mura – Jump Shop – Pokemon Center – Umeda Sky Building
\*Day 7 **Dec 26th**: Osaka
Namba Parks – Namba Yasaka Shrine – Nipponbashi – Shitennoji – Shinsekai – Abeno Harukas
Day 8 **Dec 27th**: Check out of Osaka and head to Kyoto – Hotel – Gion District – Yasaka Shrine – Higashiyama Ward –
Day 9 **Dec 28th**: Nishiki Market – Head to Nara – Deer Park – Head back to Kyoto hotel
~~Day 10~~ **~~Dec 29th~~**~~: Check out of Kyoto – Shinkansen to Nagoya – Ghibli Park – Shinkansen to Tokyo~~
Day 11 **Dec 30th**: Tokyo, Ikebukuro Evangelion Store – Sunshine Outlet – Pokémon Center Mega Tokyo – Planetarium – Sunshine Aquarium – Observation Deck
Day 12 **Dec 31st**
\*Day 13 **Jan 1st**:Tokyo, Asakusa Nakamise Street – Senso-ji Temple –
Day 14 **Jan 2nd**:Tokyo, Shibuya Hachikō Memorial Statue – Shibuya Scramble Crossing – Katsumidori Seibu Shibuya – MEGA Don Quijote Shibuya – Shibuya Parco – Takeshita Street –
\*Day 15 **Jan 3rd**:Tokyo, Mitaka/Shinjuku Ghibli Museum – Nakano Broadway – Kabukichō – Omoide-Yokochō
Day 16 **Jan 4th**: Tokyo, Akihabara GiGO Akihabara 4 – Akihabara Radio Kaikan – Akihabara Gamers – Kotobukiya – Super Potato – Akiba Cultures Zone – Bic Camera – Mandarake
Day 17 **Jan 5th**: Tokyo – Whatever we want to go back to in Tokyo 8:55 pm Leave at Haneda Airport –
**Hotels:** Hakodate: Yumoto Takubokutei
Osaka: Kamon Hotel
Kyoto:
Tokyo:
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Still, in the midst of planning and just had a couple of questions, but for some reason, I had to post my research.
As a tourist what else is there to do during new years eve besides the temples and whatnot? It is just going to be a dead day is there any place that is open what I’ve heard is that most places close on new years day and eve.
Also if anyone has had any experience with this, how do you get tickets for the Ghibli Park located in Nagoya as a foreign tourist? I’ve researched that tickets are available to purchase through a lottery system but I need an address in Japan to make an account to sign up for the lottery. I really wanted to go but it seems like it’s going to be a bust.
Looking through my itinerary is there anything wrong with it? Personally, I don’t see anything but it’s always a good idea to get a different view from it especially if they know the place a lot better than me and my friends.
Underrated places to visit in Hakodate, Osaka, Kyoto, Nara, and Tokyo?
Overrated places that aren’t the hype to skip?
Local foods of the area that is a must try/Restaurants in the area to try?
Sorry for the bombardment of questions it’s just that I haven’t been since I was a kid and I never planned anything like this so I’m very new to this kind of thing.
Any advice is appreciated and welcomed. Thank you
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>Also if anyone has had any experience with this, how do you get tickets for the Ghibli Park located in Nagoya as a foreign tourist?
It’s not available for overseas visitors yet. Keep a look at the website for when the release date is announced.
https://ghibli-park.jp/en/ticket/
Is there a reason you want to do all that traveling just to go to Hakodate for a day? There are definitely places more centrally located to the rest of your itinerary that wouldn’t involve so much out of the way travel. Kanazawa and Hiroshima come to mind, as well as Arima Onsen, Kinosaki Onsen, Kawaguchiko, or Hakone. Or even day trips from Tokyo like Nikko or Kamakura.