12 Day Itinerary in October Check

Hello everyone, I will be heading to Tokyo in October for 10 days. I will be traveling to Tokyo (5 days), Kyoto (4days), Osaka (1 Day), Nara (1/2Day).

Could you please review my itinerary and provide feedback, optimize my schedule/ routes, or let me know if there’s anything I’m missing?

Day 1 (Flying in noon – Staying Akihabara)

* Check in Hotel
* Akihabara
* Lunch – ?
* Retro Game Camp, Super Potato Retro-Kan, Animate, Mandarake, K-books, Radio-Kan, Gamers, Akiba Culture Zone, Yodobashi Camera, Gachapon Hall
* Dinner: Gyukatsu Ichi Ni San

Day 2 (Tokyo)

* Breakfast – (Benitsuru)
* Ameyoko Shopping District
* Ueno Park
* Browse Ueno (Okachimachi Yoshiike Main Store Building)
* Lunch – Eat around Nakamise Shopping Street
* Asakusa
* Senso-Ji Temple
* Sumida River
* Tokyo Skytree
* Dinner – ?
* Akihabara

Day 3 (Tokyo To Kyoto (Stay in Kyoto))

* Check out of hotel
* Breakfast
* Go to Tokyo Station or Shinagawa Station and take Nozomi Shinkansen to Kyoto
* Check into hotel
* Nishiki Market
* Kinkakuji Temple
* Nanzen-Ji Temple
* Philosopher’s Path
* Dinner – ?
* Pokemon Center

Day 4 (Kyoto and Nara Day trip)

* Breakfast – ?
* Fushimi Inari
* Lunch – ?
* Kyoto Station (Express train departs from Kyoto Station (on the south side of JR Kyoto Station) arrives at Kintetsu Nara Station)
* Nara
* Nara Deer Park
* Tōdai-ji
* Kasuga-taisha
* Kōfuku-Ji
* Dinner – ?
* Take Nara Station to Kyoto Station
* Kamogawa River

Day 5 (kyoto)

* Breakfast – ?
* Arashiyama Bamboo Grove and monkey park
* Arashiyama Area
* Sagano Scenic Railway
* Lunch – ?
* Togetsu-Kyo Bridge
* Tenryu-Ji (Closes at 5PM)
* Kimono Forest
* Katsura River
* Dinner – ?
* Gion

Day 6 (Osaka Day trip)

* Breakfast (Gram Breakfast)
* Take the Special Rapid service on the JR Kyoto Line
* Shinsekai
* Nipponbashi Denden Town
* Lunch – ?
* Kuromon Market
* Namba Yasaka Shrine
* Abeno Harukas Viewing at Sunset
* Dotonbori (River Cruise at Dotonbori)
* Dinner – (Kamukura Ramen or Ichiran)
* Back to Kyoto – From Hankyu Osaka-Umeda Station, take the Limited Express train to Kyoto-Kawaramachi Station, take the JR Special Rapid Service train (for Yasu or Nagahama) to JR Kyoto Station

Day 7 (Kyoto)

* Breakfast
* Kiyomizudera Temple
* Sannenzaka (Matcha House)
* Ninenzaka
* Hokan-ji
* Higashiyama Neighborhood
* Lunch
* Maruyama Park
* Yasaka Jinja
* Dinner
* Gion
* Hanamikoji Street
* Pontocho Alley

Day 8 (Tokyo (Stay into Shinjuku)

* Check out hotel
* Breakfast
* Take Nozomi Shinkansen back to Tokyo Station from Kyoto Station
* Check into hotel
* Japanese Bakery (Little Bakery)
* Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden
* Explore Shinjuku
* Dinner (Gyukatsu)
* Kabukicho
* Tokyu Kabukicho Tower
* Ginza (Ginza High Street, Uniqlo, Muji, Loft)

Day 9 (Tokyo)

* Breakfast – (Flippers or A Happy Pancake)
* Explore Shibuya Area (Center Gai Street)
* Shibuya Crossing
* Shibuya Parco Mall (Pokemon Center, Nintendo Shop, Jump Shop)
* Lunch: Fuunji
* Shibuya Sky
* Miyashita Mall/ Park
* Tokyu Hands
* Don Quixote
* Hachiko Statue
* Dinner
* Shinjuku
* Shinjuku 3D Cat Billboard (opposite Shinjuku Station’s east exit )
* Golden Gai
* Omoide Yokocho

Day 10 (Tokyo)

* Breakfast
* Studio Ghibli Museum
* Lunch
* Ikebukuro Sunshine City (Pokemon Center, J. World here, Donguri Kyowakoku (Studio Ghibli store), Mugiwara Store (One Piece))
Lunch
* Nakano Broadway
* Harajuku
* Tokyu Plaza
* Ura-Harajuku
* Takeshita Street
* Dinner – (Sakura-Tei)

Day 11 (Tokyo)

* Breakfast – ?
* Imperial Palace
* Imperial Palace East Garden
* Tokyo Station
* Lunch – (Ramen Street)
* Meiji Shrine
* Yoyogi Park
* Tsukiji Outer Market
* Red Tokyo Tower
* Tokyo Tower
* Dinner

Day 12 (Tokyo)

* Breakfast – Flight out
* Take Shinjuku station to Hamamatsucho then to Haneda Airport Terminal or Shinjuku Expressway Bus Terminal to Haneda Airport Terminal