Day 1: Fly overnight to Japan.

Day 2: Meet our tour director at the airport.

Day 3: Tokyo

• Tour Tokyo with an expert local guide

• Explore the Asakusa Kannon Temple

• Explore the serene pond, temples, and shrines of Ueno Park

• Visit the Tokyo National Museum in Ueno Park, Japan’s largest and oldest museum

• Take a tour of Akihabara Electric Town

• Enjoy a sumo-style hot pot dinner

Day 4: Tokyo

• Visit the Meiji Shinto Shrine

• Visit the Harajuku shopping district 

• Take a walking tour of Shibuya

• Explore Tokyo on your own

• Enjoy time to explore on your own

Day 5: Tokyo • Kamakura • Fuji-Hakone-Izu region

• Travel via Kamakura to the Fuji-Hakone-Izu region

• Visit the Great Buddha of Kamakura

• Visit the Hachimangu shrine 

• Explore Kamakura on your own

Day 6: Fuji-Hakone-Izu region • Odawara • Kansai region

• Travel via Owakudani and Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park to Odawara

• Visit the Hakone Open Air Museum

• Ride the Mount Komagatake cable car (weather permitting)

• Enjoy free time in Owakudani

• See Odawara Castle

• Travel by bullet train to Kyoto

Day 7: Kansai region

• Take a guided tour of Kyoto

• Visit the Golden Pavilion, a Zen Buddhist temple 

• Visit Nijō Castle, where the Tokugawa shogunate kept a second home 

• Take a tour of the Arashiyama Bamboo Forest

Day 8: Kansai region

• Visit the Fushimi Inari-taisha shrine

• Take a guided tour of Nara

• Visit Todaiji Temple

Day 9: Depart for home.