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The original was posted on /r/japantravel by /u/Gaddri07 on 2025-10-05 06:11:08+00:00.

We just got back home and I’m genuinely writing this with a heavy heart lol, I simply did not want to leave Japan.

This was my second trip to Japan after spending 8 days in Tokyo last year (which felt way too short) this time around I decided on a month. For obvious reasons I won’t go into a lot of detail since a month is a long time to spend in Japan but if anyone has any questions feel free to ask :)

Days spend per city:

Osaka 6 days

Kyoto 2 days

Tokyo 22 days

We started off by landing in Osaka on september 4th safe to say we were not prepared for the HEAT lol i knew it was going to be warm but this was something else entirely.

First day we explored the center a bit, around namba station and dontonbori since our hotel was only a 15min walk from there.

Day 2 was mostly anime day for me, I spend hours at denden town looking for figures and retro stuff.

Day 3: this was our Nara and Kobe day trip we absolutely loved Nara and would recommend it too anyone! The dear can get a bit aggressive during september (pare season)though so watch out lol

The next 2 days we spend going around temples, the Osaka tower and shopping around for souvenirs and stuff nothing heavy since I was starting to get sick unfortunately.

I also had an entire separate list for food I wanted to try in each city so I went down that list the same time as my other itinerary lol

September 9th Kyoto

We took a local train to Kyoto only took around 35min I think. First impressions were the station was confusing as hell and with so much luggage (and sick) I had enough after my gps told me to go up the same stairs for the 5th time… After spending 30min wandering around we just took a cab to the luggage drop off person of our hotel and went for some breakfast at a place that was filled with tourists, forgot the name of the place but it wasn’t good lol.

We decided to immediately take a bus to the Fushimi Inari shrine to save some time, it was beautiful and seeing all those gates was definitely worth it BUT it was ridiculously busy .

After that we checked In and went to teramashi shopping street and in the evening to the nidec tower.

Day 2 was more of the same going around a few temples and most chilling since at this point I got very sick but didn’t want to stay in the hotel since I only had 2 days in Kyoto. I left Kyoto feeling that 2 days were more than enough, it’s small has a lot of charm but the center and touristy stuff are just way to busy, so busy that I wouldn’t want to go there again.

Tokyo day:

We took the Shinkansen to Tokyo station and than the yamanato line to Shinjuku.

We spend 3 weeks in Tokyo i will just list out the major things we did since in those 3 weeks I’ve must have seen almost every district in and around tokyo but I won’t bore you with that lol.

The days we did things in are a bit blurry so here’s the “major” stuff we did.

-Tokyo tower and surrounding temples, also went to the WW2 museum on the same day

-Akihabara for gaming and anime, I went there 4-5 times and was pretty disappointed every single time (like last year) I’ve found other stores and areas to be better.

-Nakano Broadway: for anime this was probably the best one I’ve found, lots of stores and also gaming and tech stuff.

-Ueno: we went to the park, zoo, ameyoko street etc

-mouth Fuji: we decided to book a tour through booking because going alone would have cost us more, and it was worth it, the bus took us too: senkei shrine/park, oishi park, water Heritage Village, saiko Iyashi.

-yokohama including the big flea market.

-odaibi beach, the big Gundam statue, Statue of liberty and the big mall.

-ikebukero: sunshine mall and surrounding shopping streets

-inokashira we went to a park and checked out surrounding areas, was pretty chill and less Tokyo vibes.

-Tokyo fc football game

-Tokyo game show, must do for every gamer but it was so busy but an incredible experience.

So much more, like shibuya, asakusa, asakasa, skytree, harajuku, tons of temples, parks museums etc it’s just too much too list, I also went to most book offs and hard offs around tokyo I found the best selection to be outside like at least 90min away by train.

Like Osaka I had a separate food list and went through most of it lol, 1 thing I would recommend around asakusa is age 3 bakery and if you love apples bet the cinnamon apple sandwich it was delicious (a bit messy too eat though)

We took the night bus back to Osaka to spend 1 more day there before getting on our flight home.

Like I said there is too much stuff to list and I’ve definitely forgot a lot of things but I’ll try to update this if I remember something major.

It was our best vacation ever!

Until later Japan you’ve been amazing.