Thread 2824422

Tokyo – 8 days
Tokyo 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 Park

Yokohama – 1 day
Minato Mirai, Landmark Tower, Cup Noodles Museum, Yamashita Park, Sankeien Garden

Kamakura – 1 day
Great Buddha/Kotoku-in, Hase-Dera, Tsurugaoka, Engaku-ji

Kanazawa – 2 days
Omicho Market, Kenroku-en, Kanazawa Castle, Higashi Chaya, Samurai District, Seison-Kaku, Oyama Shrine

Osaka – 4 days
Sumiyoshi, Shitennoji, Dotonbori, Kita/Minoo Park, Umeda Sky, Grand Front, Osaka Castle

Nara – 1 day
Todaiji, Deer Park, Heijo Palace, Yoshikien Garden

Koyasan – 1 day
Tokugawa Mausoleum, Baiten, Nobunaga grave, Gobyobashi, Senryo Pagoda, Okunoin, Kobo Daishi Mausoleum

Himeji – 1 day
Himeji Castle, Kokoen Garden, Shinsekai

Kyoto – 4 days
Kinkaku-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 days
Just fuck around and revisit areas you liked most

Feel free to steal it if you want. I spent 3 years making it so I guarantee you it is very good.

>>2824422 (OP)
>Shinsekai
Shinsekai 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?

>>2824427
Also do consider making Koyasan an overnight instead of a day trip when you go. The evening cemetary walk+morning prayer are a must.

>>2824429
I 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?

>>2824438

Anyways 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.

>>2824439
Kobe'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
>himeji
I 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

>>2824939
This is what I was getting at here >>2824439

The 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

>>2824422 (OP)
Since 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

>>2824427
This 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 Rice

By 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 Shinkansen

Also 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

>>2824939
On 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 (OP)
>all those 1 night stops
This is not a perfect itinerary

>>2824422 (OP)
I'm stealing it! Haha
I'm stealin your trip and there's nothing you can do about it.

>>2826740
He said feel free to steal it :)

>all those 1 day trips
youre going to find out why this is a bad idea. im not going to tell you why.

>>2826760
>>2826717
Yeah. 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
>>2826767
I'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.

>>2826783
when are you going?

>>2824422 (OP)
>Tokyo – 8 days
Wow and it's ruined
Nothing 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 partying
The city is where your hotel is, and that's it at the most

>>2826800

I'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.

>>2826804
Are you a woman, gay man, or stupid?

>>2826806

No, 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.

>>2826808
Ok 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 sake
Or 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
>famous
If you see another non-Japanese tourist in a place like that, you're doing it wrong.

>>2826814
Chilling 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.

>>2826796
Late October, around the 25th

>>2826800
>>2826804
When 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.

>>2824422 (OP)
Do people seriously follow itineraries like this?
Why?
It sounds so stressful

>>2827000
When 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.

>>2827002
Hmmm but isn't it better to take it easy then?
I'm going to Japan in 2 days, been waiting for it for 6 months
But I don't really have any concrete plans at all
I 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.

>>2827006
Why 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.

>>2827181
Uh a fucking train

>>2827213
Which one, numbnuts

>>2827181
Nevermind, 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/.

>>2827352
Not Mt. Koya, dumbass. That's a mountain in Osaka. Koyasan

>>2827392
He’s talking about mt koya in Wakayama you retard larper. Also known as koyasan

>>2826712
>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
this is like the worst fucking idea for any itinerary ever

I'd definitely recommend Enoshima on the Kamakua day, though you might have to cut something else for it.

>>2829503
I considered Enoshima, but it would involve another hour or so of trains, plus it would take up most of my time on that day meaning I wouldn't be able to even properly enjoy Kamakura. Not to mention I live in a tropical country so the beach isn't anything worth visiting to me.

>>2824422 (OP)
Thanks!

>>2824422 (OP)
>Osaka – 4 days

>>2831078
What's wrong with that? If you don't like drinking or night life, Osaka has nothing to do in it

>>2831107
Osaka is a really nice place to visit as a nerd. It has USJ, Pokemon and Nintendo stores, electric Town and all your usual Animates and Mandarakes. Umeda sky, Tsutenkaku, castle and Asahi beer museum are pretty neat too.

>>2827352
it's true, people here seem to revel in being unhelpful. sad

>>2831980
Osaka is the dirty armpit of Japan, the less time spent there the better

>>2832029
>Osaka is the dirty armpit of Japan, the less time spent there the better
there are so many baddies walking around and riding those trains tho

and riding a bicycle or walking in a park in the burbs was comfy

>>2831980
I don't really care about Nintendo and I scrapped USJ because it was too expensive. I also don't drink alcohol, and Osaka seems to have a lot of alcohol centered activities. There's really not all that much in Osaka that appeals to me. Nara and Koyasan are much more my style. Lots of temples and pretty scenery.

>>2826806
>Stop liking things I don't like!!

What about fun activities (in Tokyo for example) fun things to do in addition to site seeing?

>>2832169
Sightseeing IS the fun things to do, thoughbeit?

>>2832298
No.

>>2832169
Well duh, it's Japan so you have climbing mountains, bathing in onsen/sentoo, going to an arcade, doing street photography, shopping, going to theme parks and museums, eating gyudon/katsudon/wagyu burger whatever. The Japan threads usually have a good list in the first post, although some half of it is dedicated to finding prostitutes.

>>2827352
Your fucking answer could have been 1 fucking google maps search. Everything near osaka costs like a max of 1000 yen to get to via local trains.

>>2832298
It's fun but I'd also like some activities and stuff to do, maybe some fun games to play with friends : 3

>>2832331
>hurr durr HAvE YOu TrED usING GoOGLE???
You sound like the most pleasant person to be around IRL

So how did it go?

>>2832949
I will know in 10 days.

>>2824422 (OP)
We get you're excited about your trip, but no one needs to be this autistic you faggot

>>2824422 (OP)
>idols and temples and Buddhas
Ew

>>2832142
Stfu

Someone give me the perfect itinerary to honor best unifier. And if you don't know who best unifier is, then you shouldn't be doling out suggestions for this in the first place.

>>2832029
That's not Tokyo (or Fukuoka)

>>2824422 (OP)
>Omicho Market, Kenroku-en, Kanazawa Castle, Higashi Chaya, Samurai District, Seison-Kaku, Oyama Shrine

>>2826831
Are you enjoying your trip so far?

>>2836092
Fucking amazing. Metro is a headache to figure out, food I'm still trying to find what's to my taste and what isn't, but good lord. I've got so many incredible things to say about this place, the automation, the technology, the extremely cute girls and the well dressed men walking around, the cleanliness, the prices, it's genuinely too much to put into words. Dealing with airports for 40 hours was miserable, but holy shit is this place worth it.

>>2824422 (OP)
>Tokyo – 8 days
>Tokyo return – 2 days
Already shit, if you want an authentic experience leave Tokyo immediately

The itinerary for my upcoming 3rd trip (11 days total). The plan was to do something different, since I've already been to Tokyo, Nagano, Osaka, Kyoto, Kanazawa, Hiroshima and Miyajima. Also my first solo trip to Japan, so no one complaining about the food and walking this time, and I can take my sweet time with photography.

Osaka - 2 days
USJ, Tsutenkaku, mostly surviving with the jet lag

Nagoya - 4 days
Toyota commemorative museum, Ghibli Park, Legoland, a bus tour to Uji, Takayama and Shirakawa-go, and finally a one night in a capsule hotel

Uji - 1 day
Nintendo museum and Byodo-in from the 10 yen coin

Kobe - 4 days
The harbor, Chinatown, visiting Arima onsen through Mt. Rokko, a day trip to Himeji and Ako. Back to Osaka for return flight.

I probably wouldn't steal this, I spent like 3 days making it so I won't guarantee it's any good.

Whats a good area to stay in tokyo?
Last time i went i spent a week in akihabara, and a week in sendai. Going again for ~2 weeks. This time i plan on goin to hokkaido/sapporo for 3-4 nights. Then probably spend the rest of the time in tokyo. Sapporo will likely be in the "middle of the trip", and one of the tokyo stays will again be in akihabara. Where should the other tokyo location be? Or should i just do akihabara for both? It is pretty easy to get around all of tokyo via subway so idk if its even worth having a second location if i know akihabaras good

>>2836482
I've always stayed in Kanda, because Chuo and Yamanote lines cross there and it's very quiet. Basically right next to Akihabara though so doubt it'd make a huge difference.

>>2836491
>quieter
Hmm, actually that might be the opposite of what im looking for, as much as i enjoyed akihabara, i do remember one mild annoyance of a lot of things in the area closing relatively early. Know any "loud" places with plenty of stuff open late? I didnt mind subwaying around to do my nighttime and then coming back to go to sleep, but it would be cool to have late night stuff right where I'm staying

>>2824422 (OP)
>Ctrl+f
>Kodokan
>Phrase not found
Imperfect itinerary.

>>2836492
Shinjuku, Shibuya, Ikebukuro, Ueno, Akasaka, Roppongi, Shinbashi, Nakano, etc...

>>2836590
Noted, thanks fren.
In hindsight, ive been to shibuya and ikebukuro, but it was in the daytime and maybe thats why i found em a bit underwhelming

Shinjuku i can pass, been there day and night, it wasn't "bad" per se but probably one of the least interesting places in japan imo, felt too much like some generic globohomo western city, and im not really into high end shopping

Roppongi sounds promising if theres lots of foreigners there, last time i was in japan i picked up some Australian chick at hub and we banged at some karaoke place a few hours and many many drinks later

>>2824422 (OP)
not bad. 8/10

>>2836744
Roppongi is home to many embassies. Complaints poured into the police from various embassies, and the Nigerian community in Roppongi was swept away by the police. The Nigerians then moved to Shibuya and Shinjuku.

Does anyone here go to Japan and just not give a fuck about the coomer degenerate shit or the cultural temple palace bullshit either? Looking for some advice from people who like to actually live and immerse themselves on what to do during a 2 month vacation there.