Please pick apart my itinerary. It is our first time travelling to Japan. Have I planned too much? What would you add or remove? Be ruthless I don’t care hahah. I plan to refine it a bit more closer to
I don’t necessarily want to have a timed itinerary unless needed for bookings. I also don’t really want to plan food and just want to find things as we go (I do have a Google maps of food places I want to try if we are nearby them)
We are going in the spring time and staying at :
Yotel Ginza
Hotel Musse Kawaramachi in Kyoto
Via Prime Inn Akasaka
SAT 9 ARRIVE IN JAPAN AT 425PM
1. Shop at Airport Travellers Store
2. Keisi Sky Access to Hotel
3. Explore around Ginza
4. NTV Miyazaki Clock
SUNDAY 11 – GUITAR STREET AND BOOK TOWN
1. Travellers Station Store
2. Imperial Palace East Gardens
3. Ochanomizu Guitar Street
4. Jimbocho Book Town
5. Lunch & Curry Bondy?
6. Back to Ginza @ Night
7. Milk Shop Akihabara (optional)
TUES 12
1. Meji Shrine
2. Harajuku
3. Shinjuku
4. Shibuya
5. Tokyo night and light
MON 11 (depends on if we get a Ghibli booking)
1. Ghibli museum or Harry Potter or Fuji Tour
WEDS 13 – KYOTO
1. Train to Kyoto
2. Nikishki Market
3. Walk Shijo Dori Towards Gion
4. Yasaka Shrine
5. Gion District Hanamikoji Street
6. Optional: Ninenzaka & Sannenzaka Streets
THURS 14
1. Kyoto Imperial Palace
2. Kyoto Botanical Garden
3. Optional nearby: Kamo River walk or Demachiyanagi neighborhood for quiet cafés
4. Nijo Castle
5. Dinner near Pontocho Alley ?
FRI 15 – ARASHIYAMA
1. Bamboo Forest
2. Kimono Forest
3. Optional: Tenryu-ji Temple
4. % Arabica Coffee – Be there 8:30–9:00 am for opening.
5. Tsusen Boat Ride / Optional: Togetsukyo Bridge
6. Lunch & Shopping Walk
SAT 16
1. Fushimi Inari Shrine
2. Wife and Husband?
3. Bike Riding
SUN 17 – NINTENDO MUSEUM OR UJI
1. Byōdō-in Temple
2. Chazuna Museum Workshop
3. Uji Bridge
4. Uji River area
MON 18
1. Train back to Tokyo
2. Explore Akasaka
3. Tokyo Tower
4. Rokusan Angel???
TUES 19
1. Gotukuji temple / on at Sangenjaya Station
2. Ueno Park & Shinobazu pond
3. Nature Science Museum?
4. Yanaka Ginza if time
WEDS 20 – KAMAKURA & ENOSHIMA
1. Great Buddha
2. Kōtoku-in Temple
3. Komachi Street
4. Train Crossing View – Kamakura Kōkōmae Station (famous ocean view)
5. Lunch?
6. Enoshima Island
7. Enoshima Shrine
8. Iwaya Caves
9. Sea Candle
THURS 21
1. Sensoji Temple
2. Asakusa
3. Kappabashi Kitchen Town
4. Tokyo Skytree ?
FRI 22
Shopping & Leave 😩😩😩😩 Flight out at 630pm
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