JJapan Trips

10 day trip to Tokyo / Osaka. Recommendations welcome!

  • September 17, 2025

Hi All,

3rd time visiting Japan. Revised much of my original plan from my original post. I think I got this down but might be biting more than I can chew. Can you see if this is doable? It's a lot of walking but I'm used to it. It comes apart around 10/9 so I am looking to fill the time… it's an awkward time since I'll be in Shinjuku in the afternoon (recommendations welcome 🙂 ) https://www.reddit.com/r/JapanTravel/comments/1m34igh/10_day_trip_to_tokyo_osaka/

10/3 (Land/Asakusa)

  • Arrive Narita Airport 4:10 PM (from Boston)

  • Asakusa Hotel Check In

  • Family Market, Dinner, Bed

10/4 (Ueno/Akihabara)

  • Breakfast

  • Gojoten and Hanazono Inari Shrines

  • Kiyomizu Kannon-dō Temple

  • Tokyo National Museum

  • Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

  • Lunch @ Ueno

  • Kanda Myoujin Shrine

  • Akihabara Radio Kaikan

  • Yodobashi Akiba

  • Book off

  • Dinner @ Asakusa

10/5 (Osaka)

  • Breakfast, checkout

  • Shinkansen at 8 AM

  • Kuromon Market (Lunch)

  • Kuromon Sanpei

  • Nipponbashi Denden Town

  • Surugaya

  • Anime Jungle

  • Check in Shin-Osaka hotel

  • Dinner

  • Pokémon Center Osaka

  • Umeda Sky Tower

10/6 (Osaka)

  • Breakfast

  • Namba Yasaka Jinja

  • Shinsaibashisuji

  • America-mura

  • Lunch @ around

  • Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan

  • Dotenbori

  • Dinner @ Dotenbori

  • Hozenji Yokocho

10/7 (Kyoto)

  • Fushimi Inari Taisha (Get there around 7)

  • Arashiyama Bamboo Forest

  • Tenryu-ji

  • Nishiki Market (Lunch)

  • Kennin-ji Temple

  • Gion

  • Kiyomizu-dera

10/8 (Nara)

  • Todai-Ji

  • Kofuki-ji

  • Nara Park

  • Kasugataisha Shrine

  • Wakakusayama Hill

  • Todai-Ji Nigatsu

  • Lunch(? maybe pick up food from kombini)

  • Shinsekai

  • TeamLabs Botanical Garden

10/9 (Osaka/Tokyo)

  • Osaka Castle

  • Donguri Kyowakoku (Might move it up to Dotenbori)

  • Lunch @ somewhere

  • Shinkansen in the afternoon (3(?) to Shinjuku

  • Check in Shinjuku

10/10 (Kofu)

  • Check out, take Chuo line to see aunt and uncle at 12.

  • Stay the night

10/11 (Tokyo)

  • Back to Shinjuku (2(?))

  • Free time (look for things to do)

10/12 (Narita)

  • Get to Narita before 2 PM

by ChanounOzakaki