Intensive
Japan's Greatest Hits
Greatest hits, no padding, mostly trains.
- First visit
- Base cities: Tokyo · Kyoto · Osaka
- culture
- food
- urban
- history
Itinerary
The Ryokan Route
- 10 nights
- Relaxed pace
- Interest-led
Relaxed pace
Ten nights where the room is half the trip. A circuit of proper ryokan: the mountain baths of Hakone, a tatami stay in Kyoto, and the willow-lined canals of Kinosaki where you walk between bathhouses in a yukata. Tokyo and Osaka bookend the soak.
Every night in a proper ryokan. Mountain baths at Hakone, tatami mornings in Kyoto, Kinosaki for sea air.
Trip facts
- Length10 nights
- PaceRelaxed
- Designed forInterest-led
- GatewaysIn via Tokyo, out via Osaka
The route, city by city
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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 volcanic mountain resort within sight of Mt. Fuji, with excellent onsen, an open-air museum, and a famous ropeway.
- 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 8Explore
Japan's finest soto-yu (external bath-hopping) resort - seven distinct bathhouses, a willow-lined canal, and the country's best matsuba crab.
- Day 9Travel in
- Day 10Depart
Japan's food capital and most exuberant city - a working-class energy that takes eating very seriously.
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