Intensive
Japan's Greatest Hits
Greatest hits, no padding, mostly trains.
- First visit
- Base cities: Tokyo · Kyoto · Osaka
- culture
- food
- urban
- history
Itinerary
Anime Pilgrimage
- 8 nights
- Medium pace
- Interest-led
Medium pace
Seichi junrei, the pilgrimage to the real-world places behind your favourite anime. Base in Tokyo for day trips to seaside Kamakura and the hills of Chichibu, then head to the Hida country behind the lakeside town of Your Name, with Takayama's old streets as the base. Real locations, screen in hand.
Real-life scenes from the screen: Kamakura, Chichibu, the Hida hills behind Your Name.
Trip facts
- Length8 nights
- PaceMedium
- Designed forInterest-led
- GatewaysIn via Tokyo, out via Nagoya
The route, city by city
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- Day 1Arrive
- Day 2Day trip: Chichibu
- Day 3Day trip: Kamakura
- Day 4Explore
The world's largest city and Japan's beating heart - an overwhelming, endlessly layered metropolis where every kind of Japan coexists.
A mountain basin with limestone gorges, a 34-temple pilgrimage route, and Japan's most dazzling winter fireworks.
Japan's medieval capital with the Great Buddha, 65 temples and shrines, and forested hiking trails between them.
- Day 5Travel in
- Day 6Explore
A mountain town frozen in the Edo period, with preserved merchant streets and world-famous spring and autumn festivals.
- Day 7Travel in
- Day 8Depart
Japan's fourth-largest city, a manufacturing powerhouse with a magnificent castle, unique food culture, and the Toyota Museum.
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