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 Cherry Blossom Season
- 14 nights
- Relaxed pace
- First visit
- Spring
SpringRelaxed pace
Two weeks paced for cherry-blossom season, when the days are long and the gardens are at their best. Tokyo, a Hakone onsen night, a deep five nights in Kyoto, and Osaka, with Nikko and Nara hung off as day trips rather than hotel moves.
Slow enough to feel it, full enough to remember it.
Trip facts
- Length14 nights
- PaceRelaxed
- Designed forFirst visit
- Best seasonSpring
- GatewaysIn via Tokyo, out via Osaka
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- Day 1Arrive
- Day 2Day trip: Nikko
- Day 3Explore
- Day 4Explore
The world's largest city and Japan's beating heart - an overwhelming, endlessly layered metropolis where every kind of Japan coexists.
A UNESCO World Heritage mountain shrine complex of overwhelming opulence, built to enshrine Tokugawa Ieyasu, unifier of Japan.
- Day 5Travel in
- Day 6Explore
A volcanic mountain resort within sight of Mt. Fuji, with excellent onsen, an open-air museum, and a famous ropeway.
- Day 7Travel in
- Day 8Day trip: Nara
- Day 9Explore
- Day 10Explore
- Day 11Explore
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 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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