Intensive
Japan's Greatest Hits
Greatest hits, no padding, mostly trains.
- First visit
- Base cities: Tokyo · Kyoto · Osaka
- culture
- food
- urban
- history
Itinerary
The Classic Trip in Autumn Colour
- 14 nights
- Relaxed pace
- First visit
- Autumn
AutumnRelaxed pace
The same fortnight tuned for autumn: maple reds, raked temple gardens, and long golden evenings. Tokyo and Hakone up front, four nights in Kyoto, then Hiroshima and Miyajima before Osaka sends you home.
Maple leaves, temple gardens, longer evenings.
Trip facts
- Length14 nights
- PaceRelaxed
- Designed forFirst visit
- Best seasonAutumn
- GatewaysIn via Tokyo, out via Osaka
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- Day 1Arrive
- Day 2Explore
- Day 3Explore
The world's largest city and Japan's beating heart - an overwhelming, endlessly layered metropolis where every kind of Japan coexists.
- Day 4Travel in
- Day 5Explore
A volcanic mountain resort within sight of Mt. Fuji, with excellent onsen, an open-air museum, and a famous ropeway.
- Day 6Travel in
- Day 7Day trip: Nara
- Day 8Explore
- Day 9Explore
Japan's ancient capital - 1,200 years of temples, gardens, geisha districts, and craft traditions in a city that still feels imperial.
Japan's first permanent capital - home to the world's largest wooden building, 1,200 free-roaming deer, and extraordinary ancient temples.
- Day 10Travel in
- Day 11Day trip: Miyajima
A city of extraordinary resilience - the atomic bomb memorial, its own okonomiyaki style, and the finest oysters in Japan.
The island shrine with a great torii gate standing in the sea - consistently voted Japan's most beautiful scenery.
- Day 12Travel in
- Day 13Explore
- Day 14Depart
Japan's food capital and most exuberant city - a working-class energy that takes eating very seriously.
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