Intensive
Japan's Greatest Hits
Greatest hits, no padding, mostly trains.
- First visit
- Base cities: Tokyo · Kyoto · Osaka
- culture
- food
- urban
- history
Itinerary
The Kii Peninsula Pilgrimage
- 8 nights
- Medium pace
- Returning visitor
Medium pace
The Kii Peninsula holds Japan's oldest sacred ground, and most visitors never reach it. Eight nights out of Osaka for the Ise Grand Shrine, the cherry slopes of Yoshino, the pearl bays of Toba, and the Kumano coast where the pilgrim paths drop to the sea.
Japan's most sacred coast. Ise Grand Shrine, Kumano pilgrimage cliffs, onsen by the sea.
Trip facts
- Length8 nights
- PaceMedium
- Designed forReturning visitor
- GatewaysIn and out via Osaka
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- Day 1Arrive
- Day 2Day trip: Yoshino
Japan's food capital and most exuberant city - a working-class energy that takes eating very seriously.
Japan's most revered cherry blossom town, with 30,000 trees blooming in successive waves from valley floor to mountaintop.
A pearl and oyster town on the Ago Bay, home to Mikimoto Pearl Island, ama women divers, and Japan's most famous aquarium.
- Day 5Travel in
- Day 6Explore
The coastal gateway to Nachi Falls and Nachi Taisha, with Japan's finest fresh tuna market and excellent onsen hotels.
- 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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