Went in Jan for a couple of weeks, mostly as a snowboarding trip but spent a short time in Tokyo and did fuji and Kyoto day trips
Plan around weather with Fuji obviously, gonna be a bit of a bummer to drive around all day just to stare at some clouds from different angles
Kyoto, do touristy shit early as possible in the day to minimise crowds, doing a day trip instead of multiple days was a mistake
Foodwise it's hard to go wrong, there's so much good shit everywhere
Biggest mistake we made in general was just not going for longer tbh
Also probably best to rip the band-aid off early and get used to catching trains around the city if ur gonna be there a while
And get used to standing because the only public seating they have seems to have been designed mainly for the purpose of torturing homeless people
Cheers my Aussie brother
We aren’t doing any snow because I don’t really like the cold + couldn’t fit it in as early in the year
Mount Fuji is looking to be like 22C that day so we are cheering
Kyoto we are playing by ear but I’ll take your advice and get it done early
We are 1 day in and the train system is amazing. I’m 6”4
So have smacked my head heaps of times already. But compared to London and Australia the trains are amazing.