I want to go to Kyoto when it looks like peak autumn. I'm currently planning for the day after Thanksgiving through the first two weeks of December. Would that be about right?
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>>2869299yes, but could be slightly earlier if the weather is coldmy timestamped photo from 2024
>>2869316God that's amazing
>>2869299December might be too late for the autumn leaves. Went it november a long time ago and it was perfect.
I was in Kyoto last year for the first week of December. There was still a lot of lovely foliage, but it was perhaps a week or two behind what would have been peak.
Here’s what the little map in my hotel lobby said last year on December 5th. It’s a little hard to read, but the dark leaf indicator means it’s past peak foliage.
>>2869299https://kyoto.travel/en/https://ja.kyoto.travel/doc/pdf/momiji2024.pdf
>>2869481anon what does this have to do with the thread
>>2869447do you mean early? Still a lot of green in that pic
>>2869543No, that green is mostly the ferns and such. I think I was about one or two weeks late. There was also a lot of leaf fall in Tokyo.
>>2869299Dec is a bit late usuallyYou'll get a bigger variety of trees earlier
>>2869543>Still a lot of green in that piclmao it's just a bunch of red trees in front of the templedid you think that literally every tree turns red at some point or something
>>2869582Is that taken during the Sep-Oct period? How common was a blue sky day like that in the photo? I heard they can get quite rainy in Autumn
>>2869647the date is literally in the filenameit's all green in september
>>2869582the kawaii Japanese schoolgirls clapping for me after I lifted the iron rod is one of my core memories
I took this photo on December 10th 2025. As you can see it's a bit late as the trees are pretty "dead"
December could be way too late since autumns are late each year because of the warmer weather.Went during the last week of november last year and it was definitely the peak
>>2869299Thats when I went last year, and it was lovely. I liked Kyoto much more than I thought I would.
Should I do Tokyo or Kyoto this fall? I want to go for about a month in late october to late november. I've never been to Japan.
>>2871963Tokyo is probably better unless you're really into temples and shrines. Kyoto is a nice town but honestly the temples can get pretty repetitive and the tourist overcrowding makes it worse while Tokyo is much more varied in what it has to offer
>>2869299December is too late. Youre playing with chance that the seasons decide to end late.
>>2871963Is early October too early?
>>2871963Kyoto deserves a week imo. I spent 3 days and I don't think that was enough. With a month, you can spend some time in Osaka, and go into the Japanese Alps or Nikko.
