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Planning a trip to Japan mid Oct for our anniversary. This will be our very first time visiting Japan and we are super excited and a bit overwhelmed. Our focus will be on Japanese horror/Halloween, cultural sites, food, Disney/Ghibli and to a lesser extent, anime/manga/shopping.
Any advice on spooky/Halloween things we can add (subculture bars, restaurants, events) or recommended/must see items we missed, food we should try, would be greatly appreciated. Also wanted a second opinion on whether or not our itinerary is too much, too little or what can be improved!
Day 1 - Land in Tokyo at 4:30am Hilton Tokyo Bay
- Disney Land (🎃Halloween party!)
Tokyo Day 2 - Hilton Tokyo Bay
- Disney Land (🎃Halloween party!)
Tokyo Day 3 - Hilton Tokyo Bay
- DisneySea (🎃Halloween party!)
Tokyo Day 4 - Hilton Tokyo Bay
- DisneySea (🎃Halloween party!)
- Check In - Mitsui Garden Hotel Ginza Premier
Note: 4 days Disney may be excessive; however, we expect to be jet lagged out of our mind the first day. Day 4 is a semi flex day, we plan to head out if we are done with Disney early.
Tokyo Day 5 - Mitsui Garden Hotel Ginza Premier – Wake up 6 AM
- Tsukiji Market
- Tokyo Skytree (possible skip if we woke up late or needed more time in market)
- Sensō-ji Temple
- Tokyo National Museum
- Akihabara
- Dinner at Kinkab (🎃Spooky!)
- Vampire Café (🎃Spooky!)
Tokyo Day 6 - Mitsui Garden Hotel Ginza Premier
- Meiji Jingu Shrine
- Shibuya (lunch, shopping, Pokémon/Nintendo/Disney store
- Ghibli Museum
- Shinjuku station area (Disney Store/Ichiran Ramen/ Omoide Yokochō/ Tajimaya Coffee)
- Trader Vics Tokyo (Wife is a big tiki head, this is must do 😊)
Tokyo / Kyoto Day 7 - Mitsui Garden Hotel Ginza Premier
- teamLab Planets TOKYO
- Daiba Haunted School (🎃Spooky!)
- Gundam base - Gundam statue
- Lunch in Ginza (open to suggestions)
- Evening Train to Kyoto (get in between 6-7)
- Check In - The Gate Hotel Kyoto
- Dinner in Gion (open to suggestions)
- Gion Bridge/Yasaka-jinja Shrine
Kyoto Day 8 - The Gate Hotel Kyoto
- Kiyomizu-dera Temple
- Sannen-zaka &Traditional tea ceremony
- Minatoya Yurei Kosodateame Honpo (🎃Spooky!)
- Takashimaya Basement Food Floor (Lunch)
- Gekkeikan Okura Sake Museum
- Fushimi-Inari-Taisha Shrine (5-7 PM to see sunset)
- Dinner in Pontocho (open to suggestions)
Kyoto Day 9 - The Gate Hotel Kyoto
- Otagi Nenbutsuji Temple
- Okochi-Sanso Villa
- Arashiyama Bamboo Grove
- Tenryu-ji Temple
- Honke Owariya Main branch (Lunch)
- Manga Museum & Library
- Nishiki Market/Daimaru Basement Food Floor
- (Dinner open to suggestions)
Kyoto / Osaka Day 10 - The Gate Hotel Kyoto
- Completely Free Morning, open to suggestions
- Train to Osaka
- Check In - The Park Front Hotel at Universal Studios Japa
- Universal Japan Halloween Horror Nights (🎃Halloween party!)
Osaka Day 11 - The Park Front Hotel at Universal Studios Japan
- Universal Japan (🎃Halloween party!)
Osaka Day 12 - The Park Front Hotel at Universal Studios Japan
- Osaka Aquarium
- Tempozan Marketplace (lunch)
- Check In - Osaka Excel Hotel Tokyu
- Osaka castle
- Travel to Kobe for Kobe Beef Dinner (open to suggestions)
- The Kazan Room (Wife is a big tiki head, this is must do 😊)
Osaka Day 13 - Osaka Excel Hotel Tokyu
Note: This day is unstructured, but it involves seeing the areas around the hotel (suggestions appreciated)
- America-mura
- Don Quijote Dotonbori
- Hozenji Yokocho
- Sennichimae Doguyasuji Shopping
- Nipponbashi Denden Town
- Abeno Harukas Observation Deck
Osaka/ Kyoto / Tokyo Day 14 – Osaka Excel Hotel Tokyu
Note: We found out about the Yokai Costume Parade after booking hotels, so this day is a bit wacky but hopefully doable.
- Ship bags using service at Osaka Station to Mitsui Garden Hotel Ginza Premier
- Train to Kyoto
- Nijō Castle
- Menbaka fire ramen (lunch)
- Kinkaku-ji Temple
- (free time for probably one more temple/shrine, open to suggestions)
- Yokai Costume Flea (🎃Spooky!)
- Yokai Costume Parade (🎃Spooky!)
- Catch last Hikari back to Tokyo (9 PM)
- Late check in - Mitsui Garden Hotel Ginza Premier
Tokyo Day 15 - Mitsui Garden Hotel Ginza Premier
- Completely Free Morning, Open to Suggestions, also might keep free to re-visit anything we had to skip earlier
- 5 PM Flight Home, arrive 10 PM local which is insane.