Intensive
Japan's Greatest Hits
Greatest hits, no padding, mostly trains.
- First visit
- Base cities: Tokyo · Kyoto · Osaka
- culture
- food
- urban
- history
Itinerary
Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Remembrance
- 8 nights
- Medium pace
- Interest-led
Medium pace
The two cities the atomic bomb defined, and the history taken at the weight it deserves. Nagasaki's harbour and its atomic ground zero from a Fukuoka base, then Hiroshima's Peace Park and the Dome, the floating torii at Miyajima, and Iwakuni's arched bridge, before ending in Osaka.
The two cities the bomb defined, the Inland Sea between them, history taken seriously.
Trip facts
- Length8 nights
- PaceMedium
- Designed forInterest-led
- GatewaysIn via Fukuoka, out via Osaka
The route, city by city
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- Day 1Arrive
- Day 2Day trip: Nagasaki
- Day 3Explore
Japan's fastest-growing city and food capital of the west - Hakata ramen, yatai street stalls, and a young international energy.
A city of extraordinary cultural fusion and atomic bomb history, built across 22 hills with Dutch, Chinese, and Portuguese layers at every turn.
- Day 4Travel in
- Day 5Day trip: Miyajima
- Day 6Day trip: Iwakuni
A city of extraordinary resilience - the atomic bomb memorial, its own okonomiyaki style, and the finest oysters in Japan.
The island shrine with a great torii gate standing in the sea - consistently voted Japan's most beautiful scenery.
Home to Japan's most graceful wooden arch bridge - the five-arched Kintai Bridge - set against a hilltop castle and spring cherry blossoms.
- 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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