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Osaka sits 15 minutes from Kyoto. Use that. Do not treat the city as a station sandwich on the way to Hiroshima.

1 night: Dotonbori from Kyoto

Afternoon castle or Kuromon, evening Dotonbori, morning train to Hiroshima or back to Tokyo. Tight. Fine if 10 days are already full.

2 nights: kitchen city

Day one: castle and Dotonbori. Day two: Kuromon and Umeda or Shinsekai. This is the Osaka chapter on the classic 10-day route.

With Hiroshima

Shinkansen about 90 minutes (Hikari/Sakura on a JR Pass). Day-trip Miyajima from Hiroshima, not from Namba at 6am.

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