No, they did not.
Japan did not have the troops, shipping or resources to invade Hawaii, let alone the West coast of the United States.
The Pearl Harbor attack required a herculean effort to get six carriers and escorts close to Hawaii for a 2 hour raid.
The Imperial Japanese Army allocated all of 11 divisions to attack The Philippines, Malaya, and the Dutch East Indies.
The rest of the IJA was tied down in China, Manchuria, Korea, or The Home Islands.
Add to that Japan was already short of merchant shipping.
An invasion of the mainland US in force was never remotely possible.
Let’s just say they didn’t even make it....Midway.
too many years have passed to recall sources, however, what I recollect is that post-war researchers found an invasion was considered but dropped because, as you say, logistics. It was also stated their intelligence found almost every American home was armed. Not like China where they could do as they please because the people were not armed.
True, but that's in reality. In surreality, which was the force ruling totalitarian Japan, there were no limits.
Admiral Yamamoto, the architect of the Pearl Harbor attack, opposed Japan's alliance with Germany and Italy and also opposed war with the U.S. He had studied at Harvard, understood the U.S. and was no fool. His idea for Pearl Harbor and the conquest of Western possessions in the Pacific was to shock the US and Britain into making terms and staying out of war with Japan.
Fascist lunatics like Tojo were running the Japanese Army and government. They thought Japan could do anything. Yamamoto was targeted for assassination. U.S. pilots eventually beat them to it when the Japanese naval code was cracked. After the Japanese naval defeat at Midway, US intelligence found out Yamamoto would touring Japanese Pacific bases. P-38 Lightnings intercepted his plane and shot it down over the Solomon Islands.
The idea of an invasion on the west coast was VERY REAL. There were several ships attacked off of the CA coast:
http://www.militarymuseum.org/Emedio.html