Intensive
Japan's Greatest Hits
Greatest hits, no padding, mostly trains.
- First visit
- Base cities: Tokyo · Kyoto · Osaka
- culture
- food
- urban
- history
Itinerary
Japan on Foot
- 12 nights
- Medium pace
- Interest-led
Medium pace
Twelve nights on foot, threaded between cities so you are never far from a bath and a meal. Nikko's cedar trails, the black keep at Matsumoto, the glacial valley of Kamikochi, and the highland paths around Takayama, with Kyoto and Osaka to recover in.
Nikko's cedar trails, Kamikochi's glacial valley, Takayama's highland paths. Twelve nights on foot.
Trip facts
- Length12 nights
- PaceMedium
- Designed forInterest-led
- GatewaysIn via Tokyo, out via Osaka
The route, city by city
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- Day 1Arrive
- Day 2Day trip: Nikko
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 3Travel in
- Day 4Day trip: Kamikochi
Home to Japan's most beautiful original castle - the black and white Crow Castle - at the gateway to the Northern Alps.
- 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 8Explore
- Day 9Explore
Japan's ancient capital - 1,200 years of temples, gardens, geisha districts, and craft traditions in a city that still feels imperial.
- Day 10Travel in
- Day 11Explore
- Day 12Depart
Japan's food capital and most exuberant city - a working-class energy that takes eating very seriously.
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