Intensive
Japan's Greatest Hits
Greatest hits, no padding, mostly trains.
- First visit
- Base cities: Tokyo · Kyoto · Osaka
- culture
- food
- urban
- history
Itinerary
Spiritual Japan
- 9 nights
- Relaxed pace
- Interest-led
Relaxed pace
Nine slow nights through Japan's sacred heart. The Buddhist mountain temples of Koyasan, Kyoto's great Zen gardens, Nara's ancient halls and tame deer, and the cherry-clad slopes of Yoshino, based out of Osaka. A trip built for quiet, not for covering ground.
Buddhist mountains, Shinto heartlands, and the temple lanes between. Nine slow, sacred nights.
Trip facts
- Length9 nights
- PaceRelaxed
- Designed forInterest-led
- GatewaysIn and out via Osaka
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- Day 1Arrive
- Day 2Day trip: Koyasan
Japan's food capital and most exuberant city - a working-class energy that takes eating very seriously.
A sacred mountain monastery town founded by Kobo Daishi in 816 AD, with 120 temple lodgings and an ancient forest cemetery.
- Day 3Travel in
- Day 4Explore
- Day 5Explore
Japan's ancient capital - 1,200 years of temples, gardens, geisha districts, and craft traditions in a city that still feels imperial.
- Day 6Travel in
- Day 7Day trip: Yoshino
Japan's first permanent capital - home to the world's largest wooden building, 1,200 free-roaming deer, and extraordinary ancient temples.
Japan's most revered cherry blossom town, with 30,000 trees blooming in successive waves from valley floor to mountaintop.
- Day 8Travel in
- Day 9Depart
Japan's food capital and most exuberant city - a working-class energy that takes eating very seriously.
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