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
Snow Monkeys and Hot Baths
- 8 nights
- Medium pace
- Interest-led
- Winter
WinterMedium pace
The famous snow monkeys, plus the onsen towns around them. Tokyo to start, up to the Nagano valleys for the bathing macaques and the sake streets of Obuse, then back south to Kyoto and Osaka.
Bathing macaques, powder-quiet valleys, a long soak after every day.
Trip facts
- Length8 nights
- PaceMedium
- Designed forInterest-led
- Best seasonWinter
- 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 4Day trip: Obuse
The 1998 Winter Olympics host city, home to Zenko-ji - one of Japan's most visited pilgrimage sites - and gateway to mountain resorts.
A small, immaculate town in northern Nagano with Japan's finest Hokusai museum, excellent craft sake, and beloved chestnut confections.
- Day 5Travel in
- 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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