Originally Posted by
evergrn
Are you doing 4 nights / 3 full days?
If so, then I'd probably do either what abmj-jr suggests or stay all 4 nights in Tokyo at one hotel and then spend one of those days to do a day-trip to Kyoto (leaving Tokyo by 8a and arriving back by 10p should give you 9+ hr in Kyoto).
If you're doing 5 nights / 4 full days, I'd probably do:
Day1: land NRT, stay Tokyo
Day2: see Tokyo, stay Tokyo
Day3: see Tokyo, stay Tokyo
Day4: morning Tokyo, Tokyo>Kyoto, stay Kyoto
Day5: see Kyoto, stay Kyoto
Day6: Kyoto>NRT
I will be there four nights, with three full days and two travel days (arriving around 5:30PM the first night and leaving around 4PM the last day).
Was thinking of maybe going straight from NRT out to Kyoto on the night of arrival - spending all of the next day there and heading back to Tokyo that evening if that makes sense?
Is there enough to do with what I listed above to warrant two full days and one half day in Tokyo? Feels like it to me but you all are the experts!