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The Classic First Trip
Tokyo, then Hakone for one quiet night, then Kyoto and Osaka.
- First visit
- Base cities: Tokyo · Hakone · Kyoto · Osaka
- culture
- food
- urban
- history
Itinerary
Japan's Greatest Hits
- 7 nights
- Intensive pace
- First visit
Intensive pace
The classic first trip with the padding cut out. Three nights in Tokyo, three in Kyoto with Nara as a day trip, and a final night in Osaka to fly home easy. Everything connects on the Shinkansen, so the only thing moving fast is you.
Greatest hits, no padding, mostly trains.
Trip facts
- Length7 nights
- PaceIntensive
- Designed forFirst visit
- GatewaysIn via Tokyo, out via Osaka
The route, city by city
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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 5Day trip: Nara
- Day 6Explore
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 7Depart
Japan's food capital and most exuberant city - a working-class energy that takes eating very seriously.
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