Hello! My husband and I are traveling to Japan for the first time in a couple of weeks and are so excited! I've read tons of other itineraries I just wanted to post mine for any obvious issues or advice. We will have 5 full days in Tokyo and 2.5-3 days in Kyoto. We are pretty nerdy but also love nature and culture. We are great travelers, love to be on the go and make the most of each day. I planned mainly for certain areas each day aside from some reservations to keep things fairly flexible, but I'm not sure if we're trying to do way too much or if this seems doable!
We don't yet have reservations for either of the TeamLab exhibits yet, trying to find the best place to put them if possible!
Also waiting to try to get a Shibuya Sky reservation for an evening time slot on hopefully either 09/16 or 09/19.
I left a free day on day 6 (09/19) to push anything missed from our first days to.
My Kyoto plans were the most challenging, as I was overwhelmed by the sheer number of temples and shrines, we love to walk / hike, so hoping to do a good amount of that. Those plans are very up in the air.
09/14 – (Travel) Land at Narita at 7:00pm, get to hotel (Akasaka) and have dinner
09/15 – (Tokyo) Tsukiji market and shopping in Ginza, 1:15 Pokemon Cafe reservation (score!), Akihabara for rest of day (potato, shopping, etc)
09/16 – (Tokyo) Sensoji Temple and Ueno Park right away in the morning – Tokyo Skytree, then to Sunshine City (is it worth it to do both Skytree and Sunshine?) – Shinjiku for the afternoon / evening (Gyoen National Garden, shopping, walking around)
09/17 – (Tokyo) Meiji Shrine and Yoyogi Park in the morning then Harajuku – 2:00 Ghibli Museum reservation then back to Shibuya for the evening
09/18 – (Tokyo) Tokyo DisneySea (been to Magic Kingdom in CA and FL)
09/19 – (Tokyo) Free day – see anything we missed or want to revisit! (will put one TeamLab on this day probably)
09/20 – (Tokyo/Kyoto) Check out of Hotel, maybe got to Tokyo Station for food / shopping, Take Shinkansen to Kyoto, check into Hotel, Nishiki Market for the evening
09/21 – (Kyoto) Fushimi Inari early as possible – Nijo Castle – Philosophers Path – Gion for dinner and evening
09/22 – (Kyoto/Nara) Arashiyama Bamboo Grove – Golden Pavillion – half day trip to Nara – back in the evening and to Pontocho District for dinner
09/23 – (Kyoto/Tokyo) Check out of Hotel might have some time to walk around some more, Take Shinkansen to Tokyo, Airport, 8:00 PM flight
Thanks in advance!
by _krisp
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I probably would not do Shibuya Sky, Sunshine City Observatory and Skytree. It’s just all high up from different angles.
There’s no evening at Nishiki. Closed by 5 or 6.
Fushimi Inari and Nara make sense together. Arashiyama, Golden and Nara are all so far from each other than this makes this day very long. Nijo is closer and makes more sense.
Reality is that you don’t have enough Kyoto days.
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