Would love to get everyone’s thoughts and feedback on my two week japan itinerary! Also let me know if there’s anything specific I should check out in any of these places 🙂
Day 1 Land at 5 pm Japan time
Tokyo Tower
Day 2 Shinjuku Gyoen (manhole covers); Shinjuku neighborhood explore; Shibuya Crossing, Shibuya Sky; Shibuya pokemon center, Omoide Yokocho (food) / Golden Gai (bars)
Day 3 Meiji forest walk (ema boards), yoyogi park, Harajuku Takeshita Street; Omotesandi, Daikanyama T site, Nakameguro
Day 4 Tsukiji market, Ginza shopping, ikeburkuro
Day 5 Senso-ji and Nakamise, kappabashi st, Sumida river walk, Akihabara
Day 6 Romancecar to Hakone-Yumoto; Full Hakone loop, (Tozan line, cable car, ropeway, Owakudani; Lake Ashi pirate ship; Hakone Shrine)
onsen soak
Day 7 Hakone Open Air Museum, shinkansen via Odawara
Day 8 Nakasendo Trail: Nagoya to Magome, hike Magome to Tsumago with streams and shrines; lunch and exploration in Tsumago; stay in nagiso;
Day 9 train to Matsumoto; Matsumoto castle; bus to Takayama; afternoon in Takayama old town
Day 10 Miyagawa Morning Market; bus to Shirakawa-go; gassho-zukuri village walk; bus to Kanazawa; samurai district, evening in Higashi Chaya
Day 11 Kenrokuen garden and castle (exterior), himeji castle, travel to Koyasan, check-in to shukubo; Okunoin Cemetery at dusk; shojin ryori dinner
Day 12 Temple morning, Choishi-Michi trail, travel to Kyoto, teamlabs Biovertex, Nishiki market
Day 13 Kyoto East: Fushimi Inari; lunch; Ginkaku-ji; Philosopher’s Path with cafés and side alleys; Nanzen-ji (potential skip); Ninenzaka/Sannenzaka, Gion and Shirakawa canal at dusk
Day 14 Kyoto West: Saihō-ji, Saga Torimoto, Arashiyama bamboo grove, Tenryu-ji (potential skip) and river walk; Ōtagi Nenbutsu-ji, lunch; Kinkaku-ji; tea ceremony; Pontocho dinner
Day 15 travel to Osaka, Osaka Castle and park; Kuromon Market food crawl; Dotonbori and canal-side walk, ORIX baseball game
Day 16 F1 Suzuka race day: breakfast and early train from Kyoto to Nagoya/Suzuka; circuit arrival and support events; Japanese Grand Prix main race; evening return to Kyoto or airport hotel
Day 17 Departure from Kansai: final pack-up; train or bus to Kansai International or Itami Airport; fly home
by TarHeel__2017