[itinerary check] first visit to Japan 🇯🇵 with the family in May. Osaka to Tokyo. ✈️ 🚆 🚗

TIA for your advice.

We will be visiting Japan for the first time in May this year. My wife, two kids (11 and 9) and me. We will be there for about two weeks.

We’ve just booked flights and are putting together an itinerary. We arrive in Osaka and will leave from Tokyo, and want to see places in between.

I’ve used ChatGPT to help put together an itinerary, but would really want some feedback.

I really want to strike a good balance between seeing enough and not rushing through the experience. So here is a quick summary of days/nights spent and highlights. I’m particularly interested in feedback on the Kyoto, Hakone, Kawaguchiko part, as it seems rushed, but then I don’t want to take away time from Osaka and Tokyo either 😐 . Do tell me if this seems crazy, especially with two kids in tow 😂

Osaka 4 nights (3 full days):

• Osaka Castle Park
• Kurumon Ichiba Market
• Amerikamura
• Dotonbori canal walk
• USJ (that’s one day gone, haha!)
• Namba Yasaka shrine
• Nipponbashi (Den Den Town)
• Umeda Sky Building

Kyoto 2 nights (1 full day)days:

• Fushimi Inari Taisha
• Koyozumi-dera + Sannenzaka/Ninenzaka lanes.
• Kyoto railway museum OR Akashi Yama riverside/bamboo grove.

Hakone 1 night: -ryokan/onsen

• Ropeway or lake cruise

Kawaguchiko 1 night:

• lakeside walk and Fuji viewpoints

Tokyo 7 nights (6 full days):

• Senso-ji
• Nakamise shopping street
• team lab planets
• odaibo waterfront
• shibuya crossing + hachiko
• Meiji jingu
• harajuku
• nakano broadway + some treasure hunting in book off/hard off stores
• DisneySea
• Ghibli museum
• Akihabara