Hello everybody! First off, English is not my native language, but please bear with me.
I’ll be going to Japan with my wife in just about 3 weeks and wanted some help reviewing my itinerary. Since we have almost a month to spend, I didn’t want to pack each day to the max and also left some days without any plans.
We are both huge anime and Nintendo nerds and my wife also loves Sanrio.
Also we love to try new food, so any recommendation is well welcomed.
Aside from activities that require reservations, each day is movable.
Without anything else, here is the itinerary:
Tokyo:
Day 1 – Arrive at Narita Airport and go to our hotel, which is close to Ueno station and rest, maybe walk around the hotel area.
Day 2 – Shibuya: going to the main landmarks like Shibuya Crossing, Hachiko Statue, Shibuya Parco where we plan to go to the Nintendo store. At night Shibuya Sky.
Day 3 – (This is also my wife’s birthday) Toshima: Sunshine City, Pokemon Center, Sanrio Gift gate and Sanrio Cafe, Taito station and walk around Ikebukuro.
Day 4 – Ueno park and Ueno zoo
Day 5 – Disneysea
Day 6 – Takeshita street, we plan to go to many thematic cafes this day, like Shiba Inu Cafe, Mini pig and some 3d coffee art also Konno Hachimangu shrine.
Day 7 – Asakusa: Senso ji, Denpoin dori, Tokyo skytree and Kirby Cafe (we already grab reservations)
Day 8 – Shinjuku: Korea town, Kabukicho , Omoide Yookocho , Suga shrine and for late afternoon Ryu No Miyako Inshokugai
Day 9 – More relaxed day. After lunch, go to Nakano Broadway and Jojo’s bizarre adventure bar.
Day 10 – Akihabara
Day 11 – We hope that we are able to grab some Ghibli museum tickets.
Kyoto:
Day 11: Grab the shinkansen early and arrive at our hotel close to Kyoto station. Kinkakuji Templo Golden – Kichi kichi omurise if we can make any reservations.
Day 12: Fushimi inari shrine and market.
Day 13: Kiyomizu shrine, Gion area, Nishiki market , some more shrines, Philosopher path and dinner at Pontocho area. This day i feel it’s a little too packed.
Day 14: Bamboo forest, Monkey park , Tenryuji Shrine.
Osaka:
Day 15: Ichiba market , Osaka Castle , Namba Yasaka Jinja shrine ,Denden town , Shinsekai.
Day 16: Osaka Aquarium , Nintendo osaka store, Dontobori
Day 17: Nara day trip
Day 18: Universal studios
Day 19: Kobe daytrip (This would be our last day in Osaka, we are still unsure about going to Kobe, so if there is any other daytrip that you guys recommend, it would be great)
Tokyo part 2:
Day 20: Tsukiji Fishmarket, Kokyo, Imperial garden, Ginza art aquarium, Pokemon center and Pokemon Cafe.
Day 21 – 22 -23 and 24 are Free. This are interchangeable, i.e if we are tired by day 6 we can take one of these days and put it on Tokyo part 1.
Day 25: Grab breakfast and go to narita airport.
We feel that we lack some night stuff to do and also Onsen and any Ryokan (Maybe a Hakone night stay), so we are very much open to any reccomendations.
Thanks!