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10 Days Japan Explorer Vacation Package
Duration: 10 Days / 9 Nights
Priced From: $3,950 (pp dbl. occ.)
Dates: Jan - Dec
Itinerary
Day 1: Depart USA
Day 2: Arrive Tokyo
Arrive late this morning in Tokyo, where your representative greets you and escorts you by private car to your centrally located hotel.
Choice of Hotels (B)
Day 3: Tokyo
Depart this morning at 8:25 AM on a day of sightseeing in Tokyo. Visit Tokyo Tower observatory, modeled after the Eiffel Tower. Glimpse the Imperial Palace, home to the royal family. Explore Asakusa Kannon Temple, Tokyo’s oldest temple. En route, cruise Sumida River for different views of this energetic capital city. Choice of Hotels (B)
Day 4: Tokyo
Today you are free to explore Tokyo on your own. Museums, gardens, shopping, baseball, palaces, Tokyo has something for everyone. Choice of Hotels (B)
Day 5: Tokyo / Hakone
This morning you are picked up from your hotel at 8:25 AM for a full day tour of Mt Fuji and Hakone by luxury coach (Bud Tour), visit Mt. Fuji and its welcoming mountain surroundings. Here, you find some of the most beautiful scenery in Japan. Ascend half way up the mountainside for fabulous views (weather permitting) from 7,500 feet. Travel to picturesque Hakone, a tourist resort with hot springs and natural beauty as well as rich history. Cruise across serene Lake Ashi and take in the rugged mountain scenery from the Mt. Komagatake aerial cableway. After the tour ends you will be dropped off at hotel Kowakien from where you take a taxi to your hotel.
Choice of Hotels (B,L,D)
Day 6: Hakone / Nara / Kyoto
Today you are transferred from your hotel to the Odawara train station by private car and assistance driver where you depart by Hikari train to Kyoto. On arrival in Kyoto you are met and transferred by private car and an escort to your hotel. You have to walk over to the Kyoto Hotel Okura from where you are picked up for your coach tour of Nara. This afternoon you are taken on a coach tour of nearby Nara, to see Todaji Temple’s colossal bronze Buddha. Stop by Deer Park, a 1,250-acre park where more than 1,000 tame deer roam freely. Enjoy colorful Kasuga Shrine with its vermilion-lacquered galleries, a myriad of rusty hanging lanterns from the eaves and the elegant shrine structure with cypress-bark roofs. The tour ends at Kyoto Hotel Okura from where you walk back to your hotel.
Choice of Hotels (B)
Day 7: Kyoto
Today you have to walk over to the Kyoto Hotel Okura from where you are picked up for your coach tour of Kyoto, Kyoto served as Japan's capital for 1100 years. Study the powerful Nijo Castle built around 1600, with immense walls and moat. Experience Ninomaru Palace, which is famed for its nightingale floors, constructed to squeak whenever anyone walks across them, so as to warn residents when invaders were present. Discover the elegant Imperial Palace and the radiant Golden Pavilion, an exquisite example of Japanese gardens. The tour ends at Kyoto Hotel Okura from where you walk back to your hotel. Choice of Hotels(B,L)
Day 8: Kyoto / Hiroshima / Kyoto
Today, you will be picked up from the Kyoto hotel Okura and taken for your full day coach tour of Hiroshima, the first city in the history of the world to suffer atomic devastation. Pause to reflect at the Peace Memorial Park, which now has a museum displaying relics and photos of the effects of the A-bomb. This is a moving and emotional experience for many visitors. Also, visit Itsukushima Shrine, a 1400-year-old Shinto holy place constructed over water in a small inlet on Miyajima Island. This evening, return to Kyoto by train where you are dropped off at the Kyoto hotel Okura, from here you walk back to your hotel.
Choice of Hotels (B)
Day 9: Kyoto / Tokyo
Today you are transferred from your hotel to the Kyoto train station by private car with an escort. You board the Nazomi train back to Tokyo. On arrival, you are met and transferred to your hotel by private car and escort. Remainder of the day is at leisure.
Choice of Hotels (B)
Day 10: Tokyo / Depart
This morning, you are met at your hotel and escorted by private car and assistance guide to the Narita International Airport for your onward flight home. (B)
Highlights
- Browse Tokyo’s busy streets and noted landmarks.
- Spend a day at Mt. Fuji and Hakone volcanic springs featuring a cruise on Lake Ashi.
- Enjoy an aerial cable ride up Mt. Komagatake.
- Explore Japan's distinguished cultural highlights in Kyoto such as Nijo Castle, Golden Pavillion and Imperial Palace.
- Visit Deer Park in lesser-visited Nara and colorful Kasuga Shrine.
- Journey to Hiroshima and its peace shrines.
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12/08
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