Hello Dinky,

Welcome to the forum.

Whilst the members who frequent these pages do their utmost to be helpful, we do like to help those who at least try and help themselves.

The title for this thread is: "Help with itinerary needed"

But there there is no itinerary to help you with.

What you actually seem to want is for someone to take the time to spoonfeed you with an itinerary.

That's not really our style. And even if we did, it would have little practical value. We know nothing about you, your likes, dislikes, preferences, aspirations.

If you haven't got one already, you really should get yourself a travel guide to Japan and start reading through it. Once you start developing your own ideas about what it is you and your group will want to see and do in Japan and have the seedlings of a rough itinerary, come back and most of us will be happy to help you make that plan bloom into something workable.

October does have the occasional typhoon, this will bring rain and may cause some disruption in rail timetables for a day, on the upside, the next day is invariably glorious. I personally think October is a wonderful time to visit. You may also be able to visit CEATEC.

Enjoy your research! Must be jolly exciting to plan your first visit, and such an enviously long one too!