🇯🇵KYOTO Packed🏃‍♂️ AND Chill🧘‍♀️ itinerary! You choose☺️

I went on an 12D11N trip to Japan taking the route of SG -> Osaka -> Kyoto -> Tokyo -> SG If you're planning your trip to Japan, feel free to use my itinerary as a guide for planning yours! I'll be taking you through every single day and include my ORIGINAL Itinerary + changes we made based on our actual trip there due to varying factors such as weather, preference etc. ⭐️The Day will recount with every new city travelled and ?/12 denotes the count of days for the entire Japan trip!

Rest of my itinerary that can be found under my acc:

OSAKA Day 1 & 2

Osaka Day 3

Osaka Day 4

Kyoto Day 1

❗️Pre-Planned Itinerary (PACKED)

Kyoto Day 2

⏰ Leave hotel at 9.15am

- Breakfast At Nikishi Market (10am)

- Hōkyō-in Temple

- Arashiyama Bamboo Grove

- Late Lunch at Unagi Hirokawa (close at 2.30pm)

⚠️Famous Unagi restaurant, make reservations MONTHS before coming here!

- Tenryu-ji, Temple

- Kinkaku-ji, Golden Temple

- Kyoto Gyoen National garden (optional)

- Dinner Free and Easy

- Free and Easy, can go back to the bustling part we were yesterday or go back hotel

- Makoto-no-yu Public Onsen (closes at 11pm)

❗️What we actually did (CHILL)

Kyoto Day 2

⏰ Left Hotel at 1pm (slept in and chill, cause we were tired)

- Arashiyama Bamboo Grove (have to walk from the train station)

- Lunch at a restaurant nearby ⏰1.50pm

- Got some street food along the way ⏰2.30pm

- Reached forest at ⏰2.45pm

⚠️It was surprisingly not as crowded as we expected hence had a good time just taking a stroll in the forest. It's pretty big so if you really wanna hike up the slopes etc. recommend ⏰3.5 - 4h here!

- Thrift Shopping @2nd Street near Kyoto Station ⏰5.30pm

- Dinner at Yoshinoya nearby ⏰7.35pm

- Onsen at our Hotel ⏰9.15pm

⚠️We stayed at ✨S-Peria Hotel✨which had a private onsen for guests

- Rest

⏰ indicates the actual timing when we reached the area!

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