Intensive
Japan's Greatest Hits
Greatest hits, no padding, mostly trains.
- First visit
- Base cities: Tokyo · Kyoto · Osaka
- culture
- food
- urban
- history
Itinerary
Tokyo and Kyoto, Unhurried
- 7 nights
- Relaxed pace
- First visit
Relaxed pace
A week is enough for Tokyo and Kyoto if you resist adding a third city. Three Tokyo nights to find your feet, two in Kyoto for the temples and the lantern-lit lanes, a day in Nara with the deer, and an Osaka finish for the food.
Tokyo and Kyoto at a pace you can actually remember. Two cities, nothing rushed.
Trip facts
- Length7 nights
- PaceRelaxed
- Designed forFirst visit
- 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 5Day trip: Nara
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 6Travel in
- Day 7Depart
Japan's food capital and most exuberant city - a working-class energy that takes eating very seriously.
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