Intensive
Japan's Greatest Hits
Greatest hits, no padding, mostly trains.
- First visit
- Base cities: Tokyo · Kyoto · Osaka
- culture
- food
- urban
- history
Itinerary
The Slow Grand Tour
- 21 nights
- Relaxed pace
- First visit
Relaxed pace
Three weeks, the longest trip the free plan allows, paced so it never feels like a march. A wide Tokyo base, Hakone, a deep Kyoto stay, Osaka, Hiroshima with Miyajima, then Kanazawa before looping back to fly out of Tokyo.
Longest trip on the free plan, paced to actually enjoy.
Trip facts
- Length21 nights
- PaceRelaxed
- Designed forFirst visit
- GatewaysIn and out via Tokyo
The route, city by city
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- Day 1Arrive
- Day 2Day trip: Nikko
- Day 3Explore
- Day 4Explore
- Day 5Explore
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 6Travel in
- Day 7Explore
A volcanic mountain resort within sight of Mt. Fuji, with excellent onsen, an open-air museum, and a famous ropeway.
- Day 8Travel in
- Day 9Day trip: Nara
- Day 10Explore
- Day 11Explore
- Day 12Explore
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 13Travel in
- Day 14Explore
Japan's food capital and most exuberant city - a working-class energy that takes eating very seriously.
- Day 15Travel in
- Day 16Day 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 17Travel in
- Day 18Explore
- Day 19Explore
The 'Kyoto of the north' - a preserved castle town with Japan's most-visited garden, a samurai district, and exceptional seafood.
- Day 20Travel in
- Day 21Depart
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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