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The Classic Trip, Taken Slowly: Tokyo, Hakone, Kyoto, Osaka

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The Classic Trip, Taken Slowly

  • 10 nights
  • Relaxed pace
  • First visit
Relaxed pace

The least-rushed way to do a first trip: just two base cities, ten nights, and time to actually settle in. Tokyo to find your feet, then Kyoto and Osaka for the temples and the food, with day trips instead of hotel moves.

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Two cities, room to breathe, no day you regret rushing.

Trip facts

  • Length10 nights
  • PaceRelaxed
  • Designed forFirst visit
  • GatewaysIn via Tokyo, out via Osaka

The route, city by city

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  1. Tokyo
    1

    Tokyo

    Days 1 to 4kanto
    1. Day 1Arrive
    2. Day 2Explore
    3. Day 3Explore
    4. Day 4Explore

    The world's largest city and Japan's beating heart - an overwhelming, endlessly layered metropolis where every kind of Japan coexists.

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  2. Hakone
    2

    Hakone

    Days 5 to 6kanto
    1. Day 5Travel in
    2. Day 6Explore

    A volcanic mountain resort within sight of Mt. Fuji, with excellent onsen, an open-air museum, and a famous ropeway.

    What you'll see here

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  3. Kyoto
    3

    Kyoto

    Days 7 to 8kansai
    1. Day 7Travel in
    2. Day 8Day trip: Nara

    Japan's ancient capital - 1,200 years of temples, gardens, geisha districts, and craft traditions in a city that still feels imperial.

    What you'll see here

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  4. 4

    Nara

    Day 8 · Day trip from Kyotokansai

    Japan's first permanent capital - home to the world's largest wooden building, 1,200 free-roaming deer, and extraordinary ancient temples.

    Highlights

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  5. Osaka
    5

    Osaka

    Days 9 to 10kansai
    1. Day 9Travel in
    2. Day 10Depart

    Japan's food capital and most exuberant city - a working-class energy that takes eating very seriously.

    What you'll see here

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