Intensive
Japan's Greatest Hits
Greatest hits, no padding, mostly trains.
- First visit
- Base cities: Tokyo · Kyoto · Osaka
- culture
- food
- urban
- history
Itinerary
Beyond the Cherry Blossom
- 8 nights
- Medium pace
- Interest-led
- Spring
SpringMedium pace
There is more to a Japanese spring than cherry blossom, and it lasts longer. Time this for late spring, after the sakura crowds thin, for the wisteria tunnels at Ashikaga and the blue nemophila hills at Hitachi within a day of Tokyo, then Kyoto and Osaka as the season warms.
Wisteria tunnels and blue nemophila hills in late spring, after the sakura crowds have gone.
Trip facts
- Length8 nights
- PaceMedium
- Designed forInterest-led
- Best seasonSpring
- GatewaysIn via Tokyo, out via Osaka
The route, city by city
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- Day 1Arrive
- Day 2Day trip: Ashikaga
- Day 3Day trip: Hitachi
The world's largest city and Japan's beating heart - an overwhelming, endlessly layered metropolis where every kind of Japan coexists.
Home to Japan's oldest school, a famous wisteria park, and the origin city of the Ashikaga shogunate.
A Pacific coast city famous for a clifftop sea-view train station and the annual Nemophila flower carpet.
- Day 4Travel in
- Day 5Explore
- Day 6Explore
Japan's ancient capital - 1,200 years of temples, gardens, geisha districts, and craft traditions in a city that still feels imperial.
- Day 7Travel in
- Day 8Depart
Japan's food capital and most exuberant city - a working-class energy that takes eating very seriously.
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