SpringRelaxed
The Classic Trip in Cherry Blossom Season
Slow enough to feel it, full enough to remember it.
- First visit
- Base cities: Tokyo · Hakone · Kyoto · Osaka
- culture
- food
- nature
- history
Itinerary
Hidden Onsen Towns
- 10 nights
- Relaxed pace
- Interest-led
Relaxed pace
The famous onsen towns get the crowds; these get the quiet. A relaxed loop into the northern hills for the silver-mining bathhouses of Ginzan, gas-lit and snow-bound in winter, and remote Nyuto deep in the Akita mountains, with Sendai to break the journey. Long soaks, in-room kaiseki, almost no one else.
The remote baths the day-trippers never reach: silver Ginzan, secluded Nyuto, deep in the northern hills.
Trip facts
- Length10 nights
- PaceRelaxed
- Designed forInterest-led
- GatewaysIn via Tokyo, out via Osaka
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- Day 1Arrive
- Day 2Explore
The world's largest city and Japan's beating heart - an overwhelming, endlessly layered metropolis where every kind of Japan coexists.
- Day 3Travel in
- Day 4Explore
A fairy-tale onsen village where Taisho-era gaslit ryokan line a narrow gorge - widely considered the most photographed street in Japan.
- Day 5Travel in
- Day 6Explore
A cluster of seven isolated mountain hot spring inns deep in the Akita forest, legendary for their milky white waters.
- Day 7Travel in
- Day 8Explore
Tohoku's largest city, the 'City of Trees', gateway to Matsushima and famous for beef tongue cuisine.
- Day 9Travel in
- Day 10Depart
The world's largest city and Japan's beating heart - an overwhelming, endlessly layered metropolis where every kind of Japan coexists.
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