Hi everyone! longtime lurker, finally it‘s my turn to ask for recommendations and itinerary critique 🙂 we‘re flying in a week, wooo!
First off: We take it slowly, we‘re well aware we could squeeze in much more, but we don‘t want to. It‘s our only holidays this year so we wanna enjoy it and not rush it. That being said, we‘re still overwhelmed and I‘ve saved like 80 restaurants already, haha. And here we are: these are our four main interests in this holiday: food (flexible budget), culture, photography, light shopping.
I‘m looking for recommendations for additions on our route, photospots (I’m not big on insta, more personal streetphotos) and maybe one or two specific things regarding food/shopping in the areas we‘re already in anyway.
Hiroshima:
day1 *– arrival Hiroshima – explore surroundings
*day2 – exploring and history tour, recommendations? for a tourguide
*day3 *– daytrip to one of the close by islands (that tori gate island probably)
*day4 *– transfer to Kyoto via Himeji Castle (train & castle entry already bought), explore surroundings if hotel in Kyoto
Kyoto:
day5 – get up before sunrise to Senbon Torii Gates.
? eat lunch around there or better somewhere further away? since we‘re already South of the city center, Castle Fushini and/or Kizakura Kappa Sake Museum?
*day6 *– go east, direction Otagi Nenbutsuji/Adashino Nenbutsuji/Gjoji temples.
? Does this take the whole day?
*day7 *– exploring the city, go shopping, checking out some restaurants & markets.
*day8 *– transfer to Tokyo,
*? worth to stop (where?!?) to see Mt Fuji in September? *
Tokyo – staying close Ueno station
day9 *– explore Asakusa & Ueno Park
*day10 – early rise for Toyosu Tuna auction (no tour, okay?), later teamlab planets bc close by, afternoon walking around Ebisu and go shopping for kitchenware at The Harvest General Store.
? Restaurant rec‘s in Ebisu?
*day11 *– explore Ginza & emperors palace
? reservations neccesary? is a tour worth it? maybe evening walk around Shibuya
*day12 *– explore Shibuya & Shinjuku, shopping
? final evening meal near Ueno, any recommendations? We could splurge, but it‘s necessary, just a fab meal for two for 1-3h. I‘ve saved so far Tonkatsu Tonpachitel & Niki no Kashi, Ishibashi would be doable as well.
*day13 *– flying home 🙁
apart from the questions already asked.
I‘ve saved a couple restaurants around Iidabashi. Worth the detour on one of the daS apart from the restaurants?
We decided for Ubigi as an eSim (saily close followup), made accounts on goTaxi, bought traintickets through smartex, downloaded Suica, will probably book a tour with BeBros if they answer my request, may be interested in photography workshop but don‘t see space to squeeze it in as of now.
What do you guys think?
thank you wholeheartedly already for your feedback.
by Tro_Nas