Tokyo – 8 daysTokyo Tower, Imperial Palace & East Gardens, Kanda Myojin, Koishikawa Korakuen, Hibiya Park, Asakusa/Senso-ji, Zojoji/Mausoleum, Nakamise, Sumida Park, Samurai Museum, Odaiba/teamLab, DiverCity/Gundam, Aqua City, Seaside Park, Rainbow Bridge, Shibuya/Meiji/Yoyogi, Shibuya Crossing/Hachiko/Shibuya Sky, Ueno/Tokyo National Museum/Solamachi, Kawaguchiko/Fuji, Maxwell Aqua ParkYokohama – 1 dayMinato Mirai, Landmark Tower, Cup Noodles Museum, Yamashita Park, Sankeien GardenKamakura – 1 dayGreat Buddha/Kotoku-in, Hase-Dera, Tsurugaoka, Engaku-jiKanazawa – 2 daysOmicho Market, Kenroku-en, Kanazawa Castle, Higashi Chaya, Samurai District, Seison-Kaku, Oyama ShrineOsaka – 4 daysSumiyoshi, Shitennoji, Dotonbori, Kita/Minoo Park, Umeda Sky, Grand Front, Osaka CastleNara – 1 dayTodaiji, Deer Park, Heijo Palace, Yoshikien GardenKoyasan – 1 dayTokugawa Mausoleum, Baiten, Nobunaga grave, Gobyobashi, Senryo Pagoda, Okunoin, Kobo Daishi MausoleumHimeji – 1 dayHimeji Castle, Kokoen Garden, ShinsekaiKyoto – 4 daysKinkaku-ji, Ryoan-ji, Ninna-ji, Imperial Palace, Nijo, Pontocho/Nishiki, Higashiyama (Kiyomizu, Sannenzaka/Ninenzaka, Kodai-ji, Yasaka, Heian, Kyoto National Museum, Shinnyodo), South/Southeast (Fushimi Inari, Tofuku-ji, Sanjusangendo, Bishamon-do, Gion), Northeast (Ginkaku-ji, Philosopher’s Path, Honen-in, Nanzen-ji, Eikan-do)Tokyo return – 2 daysJust fuck around and revisit areas you liked mostFeel free to steal it if you want. I spent 3 years making it so I guarantee you it is very good.
>>2824422>ShinsekaiShinsekai is in Osaka, not Himeji. Good list and a good place for others to grab highlights but I think you've overstuffed for a 3 week trip. Have you accounted for travel time?
>>2824427Also do consider making Koyasan an overnight instead of a day trip when you go. The evening cemetary walk+morning prayer are a must.
>>2824429I did see the fact that you can sleep in temples in Koyo, and it does look really nice, but unfortunately I have already booked my hotel for Osaka, so it will have to be a daytrip. Also, the fact that some of the places are open till late at night seems really interesting, though I'll have to return to Osaka before 8PM so I won't be able to use it fully.Koyasan looks pretty incredible, and I never saw it ever being recommended. Maybe because it's over one hundred temples? But most of them look really cool.
Also. Skipping Kobe?
>>2824438Anyways I need to leave for the night, and probably won't be back for a week, but my suggestion is to add a day trip to Kobe from Himeji castle. The castle/garden in the day, than hit Kobe at night for the food, Chinatown and the harbor. If you've already booked the hotels, it is what it is, but just my suggestion.
>>2824439Kobe's main attraction seemed to be their beef, and honestly, I've already maxxed out my budget on fine dining. I do plan on visiting Kobe on my next trip to Japan in 2029, but I found Koyasan to be a much more attractive city to visit. Nothing against Kobe.
it's a little sparse imo but probably is a difference in travel style>himejiI was finished with the castle and garden in only a few hours. Consider going up mt shosha for the engyoji temple complex. it's incredibly kino and hardly had any visitors esp foreign tourists. pic rel
>>2824939This is what I was getting at here >>2824439The castle and garden will not take long to explore. Shinsekai is not in Himeji. So your itinerary for that day actually might have a lot of free time. The commute to Kobe is not long. Plenty of time to hit the castle, garden, kobe, and be back home in your hotel
>>2824422Since you're going to a lot of Parks and Museum I'll recommend you https://travel.gaijinpot.com/tokyo-museum-grutto-pass-2025/https://www.rekibun.or.jp/en/grutto/For ¥2,500 you get access to all of these https://www.rekibun.or.jp/en/grutto/facilities/ It's also a great way to check out some more museums, gardens and exhibitions. Second your Osaka on really seems like a 1-2 day worth of activities lol Why not Tsurumi Ryokuchi Park, Daisen Park with the Kofun or Nagai Park with the Team Lab Garden and Natural History Museum, no Kaiyukan Aquarium one of the best in the world?No Tsutenkaku and the food around it?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJNDAa3zhyg>>2824427This is easily doable, most of the stuff he listed you can do in 1 day. I did Kanazawa like this woke up at 7 AM took the Kagayaki there, you arrive at 9:32 and you can leasurly walk to Omicho Market 15 minutes, after you're done it's 15 minutes to the Castle and the Garden and Oyama Shrine and Shiinoki Green space. You can then take at 15 minute walk to Higashi Chaya district be there a hour or two now it's already around 16ish or 4pm, you can then walk uphill for 30 minutes to see Miharashidai look out via the Utatsuyuma Park. By the time you're done it's 18 or 19. You can go to the Station another 15~20 minute walk and and eat some Kaisen-don or Hanton RiceBy 21:04 it's your last Kagayaki to Tokyo ez. I should mention I've been to Japan 6+ times and even lived there. I did this exact same route to Kanazawa 3 times. And once I did it from Shin-Osaka via the then Thunderbird Express but now it only goes to Tsuruga and you need to switch to ShinkansenAlso if you're on a JR pass and near Shin-Osaka every trip closeby is a joke. You can literally jump in at Shin-Osaka via Sakura go to Fukuyama and walk into a Castle. It's literally a 2 hour trip and it even more of a joke if you combine it with say Okayama Castle and Okayama Korakuen, and then in afternoon you can do Marugame too
>>2824939On that same Shinkansen route you Okayama Castle + Garden, Fukuyama Castle right outside the Staiton, Marugame Castle, Takamatsu and to get there you need to cross the Seto Ohashi Bridge very cool one. On the opposite side of it Nagoya with Nagoya Castle, Tons of good food and some stuff to see only 1 hour and 21 minutes. People gets too zoomed in if you have a JR pass Japan is incredibly easy to traverse. You need to abandon the thoughts of this fixed per city shit. You make a base near a Shinkansen Station and you can go so many places in a 1~2 hour ride it's ridicilous and because you have the Pass you can Chain it all together.You can and entire day of Castle runs Himeji, Okayama, Fukuyama and Nagoya all in the same day if you wake up at 7 am and get on the first train. The only limiting factor is that most castle open up by 9 am but that works to your advantage since you can use that trip time to travel.
>>2824422>all those 1 night stopsThis is not a perfect itinerary
>>2824422I'm stealing it! HahaI'm stealin your trip and there's nothing you can do about it.
>>2826740He said feel free to steal it :)
>all those 1 day tripsyoure going to find out why this is a bad idea. im not going to tell you why.
>>2826760>>2826717Yeah. You're just gonna be zooming around without much of a break or rest. You should pick some highlights and go to those, don't try to hit every single thing on your list
>>2826717>>2826760>>2826767I'm going to stay in my hotel in Tokyo for 10 whole days, so the Kamakura and Yokohama day trips are just a short 30 minute hop away. As per the Osaka situation, I'm going to be honest, I struggled to fill up my itinerary in Osaka. I didn't want to go city hopping, and I don't know if this is just me, but I really did not find Osaka all that interesting to stay more than a couple days in. That's why I booked my hotel in Osaka and then planned all those daytrips. Koyasan originally wasn't even included, but I cancelled visiting USJ so I had to fill out the day with something else.I'm sure it will be quite tiring to have to take trains at 8AM for these daytrips, but I'm also sure that after the fact, I'm going to be thankful I didn't leave anything out.
>>2826783when are you going?
>>2824422>Tokyo – 8 daysWow and it's ruinedNothing to do in any city on earth for 8 days as a tourist with a brain, unless you brought work on your laptop to go do some work in a coffee shop. Otherwise it's just shopping and eating food/drinking beer that's marked up like crazy in tourist areas and then wasting your money partyingThe city is where your hotel is, and that's it at the most
>>2826800I've been to Japan 4 times and I enjoy spending extended time doing nothing in Tokyo. I just go eat, walk around, window shop, hang out in kissatens and sit in parks and I love it. But I wouldn't do that on my first trip to Japan, sure.
>>2826804Are you a woman, gay man, or stupid?
>>2826806No, I'm just old and I've been to Japan enough that I don't need the Next New Thing. What's the alternative, visit Temple # 9235? I've been all over Japan and if I happen to be in Tokyo I can still find tons of enjoyment just chilling in a cafe surrounded by cigarette smoking ojisans. I wouldn't recommend a first or second timer make that their goal but to say that there's nothing to do in a city for 8 days just proves your brain is rotted and you don't appreciate slowing down a bit.
>>2826808Ok so an old gay man
>>2826811>dude dude DUDE you just have to take the train and go 4 hours northwest of tokyo to the small village matsunonakabahra-shi and try their famous hand made cold udon paired with lukewarm sakeOr I could stay in tokyo for a bit and make girls sing anime songs for me, bang prostitutes, and eat the best ramen I'll ever have?
>>2826814>famousIf you see another non-Japanese tourist in a place like that, you're doing it wrong.
>>2826814Chilling in Tokyo having cute Jap girls sing anime songs and banging prostitutes is the way. Ignore the retards who need to be "always travelling for heckin new experiences!" nothing is better than just staying put in a cool place and soaking it all in for a while.
>>2826796Late October, around the 25th
>>2826800>>2826804When I went to Tokyo before, I didn't buy any weebshit because even with the yen being weak, the prices were pretty much the same as ordering online. Plus I would have to carry that shit with me as opposed to it arriving on my doorstep.Now with tariffs, I've had Japanese sellers had to cancel my orders because new regulations or whatever bullshit. It's so fucking pointlessly stupid.
>>2824422Do people seriously follow itineraries like this?Why?It sounds so stressful
>>2827000When you have to save up money for three years for a trip, you have to make sure you're making the most of your time.
>>2827002Hmmm but isn't it better to take it easy then?I'm going to Japan in 2 days, been waiting for it for 6 monthsBut I don't really have any concrete plans at allI mostly want to do street photography and just going wherever I fancy. For example I see that interesting street, I'm going to go there. I see this restaurant I'm going to go in. I want to drink, I will find a shop. etc.If I had to stress over where to go next according to pre-planned itinerary I wouldn't be able to take everything I see in.
>>2827006Why would it be better to take it easy? It's likely going to be a once in a lifetime trip, I'm giving up on buying a car or making a downpayment for a house to be able to pay for this trip, that's why I'm making the most of it.
Expat who emigrated to Japan several days ago. Not planning on doing anything major now (because I'm living in a hotel for five days), but what's the best way (theoretically) for someone to travel to Kyoto to visit Best Warlord's shrine to pay proper respects and make it back to Osaka without breaking the bank? I don't give a shit about the geisha or pissing off the geriatric locals. I made enough of a fool of myself at the airport in Tokyo. I just want to visit the dude's grave, and get right back out. Been on my bucket list for years.
>>2827181Uh a fucking train
>>2827213Which one, numbnuts
>>2827181Nevermind, apparently they moved Oda's remains to Mt. Koya. Already bought a guided tour with a shuttle that will take me there on the 25th. Thanks for nothing, fags. I think it would be easier finding a virgin working in a Thai whore house than substantial help on /trv/.
>>2827352Not Mt. Koya, dumbass. That's a mountain in Osaka. Koyasan
