Itinerary check 9 days (Tokyo-Kyoto-Osaka)

Hello everyone! It’ll be my husband and I’s first time in Japan and we’re very excited. This is our itinerary so far. Any suggestions? All hotels are already booked.
Thank you all!

🌸 🇯🇵 JAPAN ITINERARY
January 10–19, 2026

✈️ JAN 10 — ARRIVE IN TOKYO (HND)

Hotel: Hyatt Regency Tokyo (Shinjuku)

Afternoon
• Arrive Haneda Airport (3:25 PM)
• Train/transfer to Shinjuku
• Hotel check-in & freshen up
• Short walk around hotel area

Evening
• Dinner: ramen nearby (close & easy)
• Early night to recover from travel

🌆 JAN 11 — SHINJUKU

Hotel: Hyatt Regency Tokyo

Morning
• Shinjuku Gyoen
• Coffee nearby

Afternoon
• Omoide Yokocho (lunch options)
• Kabukichō stroll
• Isetan / Lumine 2
• UNIQLO Shinjuku Flagship
• Travel to Shibuya
• Street Karting (Shibuya)

Evening
• 🥩 Dinner: Wagyu burgers in shibuya?
• Return to hotel

💚 JAN 12 — HARAJUKU + SHIBUYA SKY

Hotel: Hyatt Regency Tokyo

Morning
• Harajuku / Takeshita Street
• Meiji Shrine
• Omotesandō stroll
• Matcha Stand Maruni
• %Arabica or Blue Bottle

Afternoon
• 🍕 Lunch: Pizza Marumo takeout

Evening
• 🌇 Shibuya Sky (4:15 PM)??
• Light dinner/snack nearby
• MEGA Don Quijote Shibuya

JAN 13 — TSUKIJI + ASAKUSA + ANNIVERSARY

Hotel: Hyatt Regency Tokyo

Morning
• Tsukiji Outer Market

Afternoon
• Travel to Asakusa
• Senso-ji Temple
• Nakamise Street
• 🍦 Age.3 Cream Sandwiches
• Sumida River stroll or Tokyo Skytree??
• Return to hotel & rest

Evening
• 🍣 6:00 PM Omakase at Sushi Itsumi (Prebooked for anniversary)
• Optional Tokyo Tower walk

🚄 JAN 14 — TOKYO → KYOTO

Hotel: Hyatt Place Kyoto

Morning
• Shinkansen to Kyoto
• Hotel check-in / luggage drop

Afternoon
• Nishiki Market
• Gion District walk

Evening
• ✨ teamLab Kyoto
• Dinner nearby

🏯 JAN 15 — KYOTO TEMPLES + BAMBOO

Hotel: Hyatt Place Kyoto

Morning
• Fushimi Inari Shrine

Afternoon
• Arashiyama Bamboo Grove
• Kiyomizu-dera
• Sannenzaka & Ninenzaka

Evening
• Dinner in Pontocho or Kawaramachi

🚄 JAN 16 — KYOTO → OSAKA

Hotel: Caption by Hyatt Osaka

Morning
• Train Kyoto → Osaka
• Hotel check-in

Afternoon
• Shinsaibashi Shopping Arcade

Evening
• Dinner: Wagyu Idaten
• Dotonbori night walk

🏙️ JAN 17 — OSAKA EXPLORATION

Hotel: Caption by Hyatt Osaka

Morning
• Osaka Castle

Afternoon
• Izakaya Toyo??
• Kuromon Market
• Shinsekai district
• Tsutenkaku Tower

Evening
• Umeda Sky Building??

🗻 JAN 18 — OSAKA → HAKONE

Hotel: Rakuten STAY Fujimi Terrace Ashinoko

Morning
• Shinkansen to Odawara
• Transfer to Hakone

Afternoon
• Hakone Shrine
• Cedar Avenue
• Lake Ashi (optional cruise??)

Evening
• Dinner at hotel

✈️ JAN 19 — HAKONE → NARITA

Flight: 5:45 PM

Morning
• Hotel breakfast
• Check-out
• Travel Hakone → Odawara → Tokyo → Narita

Afternoon
• Arrive Narita ~2:30 PM
• Airport lunch & shopping

Evening
• ✈️ Departure

by TimelyStatistician25

5 comments
  1. Your AI pal picked up the frequency of mentions of street carts but not that nearly every mention of them includes the notion that they are horrible things loathed by visitors and residents alike, not to mention dangerous for the selfish people who ride them.

    Your AI pal is recommending lunch in a place that’s full of shut down dive bars and pools of vomit.

    Your AI pal is sending you to places in the morning that don’t open until afternoon.

    Your AI pal is sending you on a stroll along a featureless river walled by concrete embankments in the cold.

    Pay a human to do your research for you.

  2. I can’t help but be sad when I see people’s itinerary have just Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto on it.

  3. Did you do like… any research for this? On the 15th you’re going 30 minutes from your hotel to the SE side of Kyoto with a 2-3 hour trip for Fushimi, then going an hour away to the NW side of town for the bamboo grove, then going 40 minutes BACK to Kimyo-mizu?! Girl please. I also don’t know why you’re not doing any temples on the 14th? It’s obvious you didn’t care

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