Japan Trip is a go!

Will be visiting Kyoto, Osaka,Tokyo and Nikko this Autumn (Late Oct) for 10days.
Hopefully will be able to catch the maple leafs.


Flight tickets collected and hotel booked.
The following is my tentative itenary .. and as always.. i'll be playing tour guide again :)


29-oct-2009 [DAY 1]

• Flight arrival to Osaka (KANSAI) then bus ride to Kyoto
  
• nite tour on Gion
• Yasaka-jinja
• tatsumi-shrine
• Pontocho

30-oct-2009 [DAY 2]

AM

• temple & shrine @ Higashiyama
• Kiyomizu-dera
• tainai-meguri
• Hotoku-ji
• Dainichi-do
• kasagi-ya (atmospheric place for tea)
• ishibei-koji (beautiful street)
• kodai-ji
• maruyama-koen (park with famous cherry tree)

PM

• temple & shrine @ Higashiyama
• nanzen-ji (zen garden!)
• kotoku-an
• nanzen-ji oku-no-in (shrine around a waterfall!)
• honen-in (racked garden)
• ginkaku-ji (breath taking temples to visit at night!)

31-oct-2009 [DAY 3]

• bambo grove @ Arashiyama & Sagano
• tenryu-ji
• nonomiya-jinja
• nison-in (hillside temple)
• takiguchi-dera & gio-ji (hillside temple)
• asashino nembutsu-ji (temple with bones of homeless/poor)
• atago torii
• ayu chaya hiranoya (eating place)

1-nov-2009 [DAY 4]

• Kyoto northwest outskirts
• Ryoan-ji
• Kinkaku-ji
• Ninna-ji

2-nov-2009 [DAY 5]

• Kyoto Southeast outskirts
• Fushimi inari (torri galore)

3-nov-2009 [DAY 6]

• Day trip to Osaka
• Osaka aquarium

4-nov-2009 [DAY 7]

• Arrival to Tokyo via bullet train
  
• shopping @ akihabara
• nite at shinjuku

5-nov-2009 [DAY 8]

• Day trip to Nikko & Nikko national park

6-nov-2009 [DAY 9]

• Sushi breakfast at Tsuji market
• Visit odaiba
• Visit harajuku

7-nov-2009 [DAY 10]

• Some more visit...
• Depart from Narita and back to singapore