Intensive
Japan's Greatest Hits
Greatest hits, no padding, mostly trains.
- First visit
- Base cities: Tokyo · Kyoto · Osaka
- culture
- food
- urban
- history
Itinerary
Kansai, Slowly
- 8 nights
- Relaxed pace
- Returning visitor
Relaxed pace
Kansai rewards staying put. Eight slow nights based in Osaka and Kyoto, with Kobe for a beef lunch, four Kyoto nights so the gardens are not a checklist, and the quieter corners of Nara and the tea hills of Uji where the day-trippers do not go.
Kansai at a slower pace. Kobe for lunch, four nights in Kyoto, Nara before the crowds.
Trip facts
- Length8 nights
- PaceRelaxed
- Designed forReturning visitor
- GatewaysIn and out via Osaka
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- Day 1Arrive
- Day 2Day trip: Kobe
Japan's food capital and most exuberant city - a working-class energy that takes eating very seriously.
Japan's most cosmopolitan port city, with an international architecture legacy, Kobe beef at every table, and a hillside foreign settlement.
- Day 3Travel in
- Day 4Day trip: Nara
- Day 5Day trip: Uji
- Day 6Explore
Japan's ancient capital - 1,200 years of temples, gardens, geisha districts, and craft traditions in a city that still feels imperial.
Japan's first permanent capital - home to the world's largest wooden building, 1,200 free-roaming deer, and extraordinary ancient temples.
- 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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