Tokyo vs Kyoto: Which Should You Visit First?
Elena Vasquez · May 25, 2026
Every trip-planning site will tell you to land in Tokyo and treat Kyoto as an afterthought tacked onto the back half of your itinerary — except the actual travel times say otherwise: fly into Kansai International and Kyoto turns out to be the closer city, a 75-minute Shinkansen hop compared to Tokyo’s two and a … Read more
