Please review my itinerary – It’s my gf and my first time traveling to Japan.

Day 1

• Land at 1:55 PM HND airport
• Go to hotel and drop off bags
• Maybe meiji shrine
• Walk Shinjuku Gyoen exterior or local streets (optional greenery)
• Coffee + light exploring near hotel
• Dinner sushi
• Maybe walk around golden gai and memory lane (see godzilla head)
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Day 2

Morning

• breakfast
• Koishikawa Korakuen Garden stroll
• Baseball Hall of Fame Museum/area around tokyo dome (wil add more)

afternoon

• Baseball game at 2:00-5:00pm
• Back to the hotel and rest

 

Night

• Dinner reservation at pizza strada 7:30
• Shinkjuku vibes, explore, no hard plans
• roppongi

 

Day 3

 

Morning

• Tsukiji Outer Market 8am
• 11:00 sushi booked at Tsukiji Sushi Yamaharu 15 course omakase
• Ginza shopping

 

Afternoon

• Asakusa + Senso-ji
• Possibly get a rickshaw to ride to another part of the area

 

Night

• Tokyo sky tree
  • 6pm
  • Go to the kitchenware shopping area Kappabashi street (10 to 6)
• Dinner nearby
  • Ruokogu kokugikan (possibly, this is in this area and the tournament is going on)
    • On sale april 3 at 11 pm
  • Kurame is a quiet neighborhood with artisan shops in the area as well
• Akihabara arcades + night exploring

 

Day 4

Day trip to Mt. Fuji

Day 5

Morning

• Ginza shopping + food halls

Afternoon

Tepanyaki lunch

• Harajuku Takeshita Street
• Shibuya exploring
• Hikarie viewing – free public access viewing instead of paying for shibuya sky
• Todoroki valley for a break

Night

• Maybe tsumo show?

 

Day 6

tokyo>>osaka 

Book 30 days in advance

Book shinkansen from shingawa station to shin-osaka station

Afternoon

• Kuromon Ichiba Market
• Walk Namba streets
• Shopping + snacks

Night

• Dotonbori- 7pm river boat cruise
• Glico Running Man
• Ebisu Bridge

 

Day 7

Morning

• Chill walk around

Afternoon

2:00 entry to cup of noodles museum

Night

• Skinsekai and Tsutenkaku 
• Umeda sky building? – 7 day in advance booking in

 

Day 8

Morning

• Shintennoji temple & flea market

Afternoon

• Osaka castle
• Explore tempozan area and go to the osaka aquarium

 

Night

• Revisit dontonburi area

Day 9

Morning

Dhawa Yura Kyoto

• Osaka to kyoto
• Take the JR train (~30 min) or Shinkansen (~15 min).
• Drop bags at your hotel and head toward the Higashiyama district.

Afternoon

• Downtown kyoto exploration
• Start out with a lunch at the nishiki market
  • Huge variety of produce and wares
  • The basement has the knife shop (aritsusu)
  • Near there is the daimaru – department store with dessert in the basement
  • Make our way to “hands kyoto” for cosmetics
• Nijo-jo, the castle alvoes area
• Can take a few minutes to sit at the kamo gawa
  • This river is a good spot where locals sit and relax with food or drinks (sit on the west side)

Night

Gion District (evening stroll)

Yasaka Shrine (beautiful at night)

 

Day 10 and

Morning

• Imperial palace area
  • Make way to the imperial palace area to get a bite to eat
  • Explore the grounds and then go on a tour of one of two different palaces (i am working on a tour but need to see if we can get it, if not we’ll do th free one)
  • Kinkaku-ji – can check this out as well

Afternoon

• Get something to eat in the area
• Head to nishijin weaving district
  • After checking this out for a little go to the textile center to see a demonstration of cloth weaving
• Before heading back to the hotel, hit up the funaoka onsen, can relax for a little here where they allow tattoos

Night

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dinner 

Day 11

Morning

9:30 AM tour of bamboo forrest and monkey area

Afternoon

• Get lunch in the area and take it easy for a little

Night

 

Day 12

Morning

• Train from Kyoto to Nara (~45 minutes).

From tiktok: take the city loop bus from kintetsu nara station all the way to the last stop at kasuga taisha shrine- work way to to todai-ji, easier walk, fewer people, friendlier deer

• Explore Nara Park

Afternoon

• Visit Todai-ji nearby- Kasuga Taisha shrine
• Naramachi historic district.
• Higashimuki shopping street

Night

• Kyoto dinner

Day 13

Morning

Kyoto and south kyoto

Morning

• Go to kyoto station and kyoto tower
  • Climb the tower and do the walk on the station – basement of both have food
• Fushimi inari (might want to start with this)
  • This is the hike through the shrines (2-3 hours for the full thing but we’ll just do some)
  • Do this in the early morning or at night maybe to avoid the crowds

Afternoon

• See the sister temples – highashi hongan-ji and nishi hongan-ji
• Grab a bite to eat and relax for a little

Night

• Visit teamLab Biovortex Kyoto booked for 6pm

 

Day 14

Morning

• Kyoto to tokyo

Afternoon

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Night

• Special omakase

7:30 reservation at Ebisu Sushi Hatsume

Day 15

Morning

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Afternoon

• Flight at  5:45pm