Japan itineraries
Starting points, not fixed departures. Tell us which one is closest and we change the rest.
Classic Japan in 14 days: Tokyo to Osaka by rail
The route that made the country famous, built so it does not feel like a coach tour. Entirely by rail, five hotel changes in…
Japan with children: 12 days that work for everyone
Japan is one of the easiest countries in the world to travel with children, and one of the easiest to get wrong. The mistake…
Walking the Kumano Kodo: 16 days
Japan's other pilgrimage. Less known than the Camino, harder to organise independently, and quieter for it. Four walking days on the Nakahechi route, temple…
Romantic Japan: 11 slow days for two
Built on the principle that a honeymoon is not a sightseeing trip. Three hotel changes in eleven days, two ryokan with private open-air baths…
Japan by what it eats and makes: 13 days
A trip organised around kitchens, workshops and markets rather than temples, though the temples happen anyway. Two cooking sessions, a sake brewery with the…
Boutique Japan: 12 unhurried days
For travellers who judge a trip by the rooms and the rhythm. Small architect-designed hotels, one exceptional ryokan, private transfers instead of dragging cases…
Japan in 14 days, through the alps
The same fourteen days as the classic route, spent differently. Instead of running west to Hiroshima, this one turns inland through the mountains: the…
Deep Japan: 21 days
Three weeks is where Japan stops being a highlights route and becomes a country. This one goes north into Tohoku, which almost no foreign…
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