Intensive
Japan's Greatest Hits
Greatest hits, no padding, mostly trains.
- First visit
- Base cities: Tokyo · Kyoto · Osaka
- culture
- food
- urban
- history
Itinerary
Shikoku: Art Islands and River Valleys
- 14 nights
- Relaxed pace
- Returning visitor
Relaxed pace
Shikoku is the smallest of the four main islands and the least rushed. Two relaxed weeks of art islands, river valleys and pilgrim temples, from Osaka through Tokushima, Kochi and Matsuyama, finishing on Hiroshima and Miyajima.
Art islands, river valleys, the smallest of the four.
Trip facts
- Length14 nights
- PaceRelaxed
- Designed forReturning visitor
- GatewaysIn and out via Osaka
The route, city by city
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- Day 1Arrive
- Day 2Explore
Japan's food capital and most exuberant city - a working-class energy that takes eating very seriously.
- Day 3Travel in
- Day 4Day trip: Naoshima
Home to the Awa Odori dance festival, the spinning Naruto whirlpools, and gateway to the wild Iya Valley.
Japan's premier art island - Benesse's extraordinary project placing world-class contemporary art within an island fishing village community.
- Day 5Travel in
- Day 6Explore
A vibrant Pacific coast city with Japan's longest Sunday market, the birthplace of Sakamoto Ryoma, and superb bonito sashimi.
- Day 7Travel in
- Day 8Explore
- Day 9Explore
Shikoku's largest city, home to one of Japan's finest original castles and Dogo Onsen - possibly the world's oldest hot spring.
- Day 10Travel in
- Day 11Day trip: Miyajima
- Day 12Explore
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.
- Day 13Travel in
- Day 14Depart
Japan's food capital and most exuberant city - a working-class energy that takes eating very seriously.
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