*POST UPDATED OCTOBER 2026.
Kon’nichiwa, friends! Hello!! How the heck are you? I am absolutely BUZZING with excitement to share this post — my first ever Japanese guide! It is with great pleasure that I bring you: Japan Travel Tips | Notes From Our Honeymoon! I’ll be sharing a more detailed breakdown of our itinerary — and many a city guide! — in the coming weeks, but for now, I thought this was a pretty good place to start. I know from personal experience that planning a trip to Japan can be a little overwhelming, so I figured if I shared one — unabashedly, excessively large — post detailing every helpful tidbit of information we gleaned from our trip, then maybe I could make your trip-planning a little easier? That’s the dream anyways!
Fair warning: this is perhaps my longest travel post yet, but I just couldn’t bear the thought of leaving anything out! It initially started out as a smaller post, covering our itinerary and a few of my top tips — but then I started writing it, and it got so long that I realised we needed to dedicate a post solely to all the tips. And when I say all the tips, I mean ALL the tips — I hope you’re ready!
Listed below is every single piece of information we accumulated from our time spent travelling between Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka. For easy reading, I’ve divided the tips into different sections: getting to Japan / travel within Japan / internet & communicating / eating in Japan / miscellaneous / cash, currency & costs. Because I had so much I wanted to share — and frankly, because I’m a typical type A! — I’ve also divided each of those sections into smaller subsections.
Let’s just get down to it, shall we?
quick links
getting to japan
entry requirements
