Fulfilling my lifelong dream of going to Japan! 10 days - looking for itinerary validation plus some recs! Looking for the following recs: 1. a...
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Fulfilling my lifelong dream of going to Japan! 10 days - looking for itinerary validation plus some recs!

Looking for the following recs:

  1. a ryokan in Hakone with a private onsen and great food
  2. 2 nice/upscale restaurants in Tokyo that are unique experiences (like robot restaurant) - ideally for adults and in the areas we are already planning to visit.

Day 1: land at HND at 2pm. Check into hotel near Tokyo station, grab food at ramen street in station and turn in early.

Day 2: Ginza (Uniqlo/GU), Tsukiji Outer market, teamLab planet.

Day 3: Travel to Kyoto, check into hotel. Explore Gion, Kodaji park.

Day 4: Fushimi Inari & Nishiki food market. (Should we do Ryoanji on this day too?)

Day 6: Day trip to Nara. E bike tour. Return to Kyoto

Day 5: Travel to Osaka. Osaka castle and Dotombori. Intentionally aligned it so that our weekend in Japan is in Osaka. Stay in love hotel. (Wanted to experience these unique hotels)

Day 7: Travel to Hakone. Heard this is the best place for the ryokan + onsen experience. Will just spend time in the ryokan experience.

Day 8: Check out of ryokan, Travel to Tokyo. Visit Akihabara, rest.

Day 9: Shinjuku, Shibuya, Golden Gai.

Day 10: Ueno park, Nakamise Dori, sensoji temple

Day 11: depart from Tokyo

Questions -

  1. reservations aren’t needed at train station spots right? I’ve seen a bunch of recs online for places in different stations that seem convenient to grab bites at.
  2. Luggage transfers: Tokyo station hotel to Kyoto hotel to Osaka love hotel to Hakone ryokan to Tokyo hotel. I’ve been hearing about the luggage forwarding service, are those feasible even for smaller places like Hakone ? Or for the love hotel (esp since those are sometimes booked on the spot). Trying to realistically understand what when we will have to lug things around haha.
  3. Any thoughts or recs for itinerary

We are young, like busy itineraries and exciting activities :)