Hi ! So yeah I'm going 3 weeks in july with my boyfriend. We know it's not the best season to go but we can't go any other time of the year because I'm still studying and only have enough free time in july…
We found tickets for 2000€ for 2 from Brussels to Narita on the 8th and we would leave from Narita as well on the 28th.
For now our itinerary looks like this :
- 8th –> arrive to Tokyo 9th –> 14th stay in Tokyo and we saw there's the Mitama Matsuri on the 13rd and 14th when we'll be there
- 14th evening –> 22nd we'd stay in Kyoto and saw there's the Yoiyama on the 15th – 16th – 21st and 22nd
- 22nd evening –>26th morning we'd stay in Osaka for the Tenjin Matsuri
- 26th we'd go back to Tokyo and stay there until the 28th.
Thats 8 days in Tokyo, 8 days in Kyoto, 3 days in Osaka.
From Kyoto, we're planning :
- A day trip to Nara
- Kobe
- Ōmihachiman
- 2 days to Hiroshima/Miyajima (visiting Hiroshima in the morning then taking a ferry to Miyajima and staying the evening and for the night. Exploring again in the morning and then going back to Hiroshima for the evening).
- Visiting Uji and Wazuka for tea (doable in the same day ?)
From Osaka we'd like to go tu Universal studio park because i really love amusement parks ^^
We didn't look much for day trip from Tokyo because we didn't plan what we'd do yet.
What are your thoughts about this itinerary ? Before looking more into details what we'll do i'd like to know if it's too much or if it's alright, if you have any tips, any recomendation of activities or day trips or things worth visiting, where to stay (for cheap if possible), where to eat,… ^^ Any advice is welcome !
At first i wanted to spend less day in Kyoto (so less day trips) to go 4 days to Okinawa but we rely public transport and saw mixed things online. I thought about going to Kyushu instead but i'm not sure if it's worth it only for 3-4 days since i really wanted to go to Yakushima from there.
So yeah, as you see we're on the early days of planning. But i've been looking at too much things online and i'm getting a bit overwhelmed.
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