Alpine Route Japan

Cities Covered:

• Tokyo             :  3 Nights
• Nagano          :  1 Night
• Kanazawa     :  1 Night
• Kyoto             :  2 Nights
• Osaka            :  3 Nights

Highlights:

Tokyo:

• Tokyo City Tour
• Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden
• Asakusa Temple & Nakamise Street
• Sumida River Cruise & Odaiba Statue of Liberty
• The Tokyo Tower
• Tokyo Sightseeing with Chidorigafuchi Park & Meiji Shrine
• Tokyo Bay Aqualine Experience
• Visit Teamlab Borderless

Mt. Fuji:

• Visit Mt. Fuji 5^th Station
• Lake Ashi Cruise
• Hakone Owakudani Ropeway

Nagano:

• Bullet Train Experience from Odawara to Nagano (02hr50m)
• Alpine Tour with Snow Corridor

Kanazawa:

• Kanazawa Sightseeing
• Kenrokuen Garden & Castle

Nagoya:

• Nabano no Sato

Kyoto:

• Sagano Romantic Train Ride
• Kimono Wearing Experience
• Kyoto City Tour with Kinkakuji Temple
• Kiyomizudera Temple
• Fushi Inara Shrine

Hiroshima:

• Bullet Train Experience from Kyoto to Hiroshima (01h40m)
• Hiroshima & Miyajima Sightseeing with Itsukushima Shrine
• Peace Memorial Park & Atomic Bomb Dome

Osaka:

• Bullet Train Experience from Hiroshima to Osaka (01h30m)
• Day Excursion to Nara with Todaiji Temple & Nara Deer Park
• Osaka City Tour with Guide
• Osaka Castle & Nishinomaru Garden
• Umeda Sky Building
• Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan
• Free Time at Dotonbori Shopping Street

Meals:

• 10 Breakfast at Hotel
• 09 Lunches at Indian Restaurant
• 10 Dinner at Indian Restaurant
• 2 x 500ml Water Bottle Per Person Per Day

Guide:

• English Speaking Local Guide

Day 1:- Arrive Tokyo. Evening Free for Leisure.

(Dinner)

Welcome to Tokyo, Japan.

Arrive Narita International Airport, clear immigration and proceed to the hotel.

Tokyo is Japan’s capital and the world’s most populous metropolis cosmopolitan city with a blend of High tech & culture. Tokyo dazzles with its traditional culture and passion for everything. You cannot visit the same Tokyo twice. The city is always changing in fun, unpredictable ways and creates new styles by mixing modernity and tradition more than any one sight.

Arrive Tokyo hotel and Check-in. (Check-in from 3 PM onwards)

Rest of the evening is free for leisure.

Dinner at Indian Restaurant.

Post dinner, back to hotel.

Day 2:- Full Day Tokyo City Tour. Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden, Asakusa Temple. Sumida River Cruise, Odaiba Statue of Liberty & Tokyo Tower.

(Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner)

After breakfast at hotel, we will proceed for full day sightseeing of Tokyo.

Full Day Tokyo City Tour with Guide will cover all important landmarks of Tokyo.

Our first stop will be at Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden.

Visit to Asakusa Temple where you can marvel at the thousands-year-old temple of Senso-ji, backdropped by the science-fiction-style Tokyo Skytree.

Enjoy some free time at Nakamise Shopping Street which is one of Japan’s oldest shopping streets. There are About 90 stalls selling souvenirs, traditional goods and snacks line the street in Asakusa.

Lunch at Indian Restaurant.

Post lunch, we will continue with our Tokyo City Tour.

Enjoy a relaxing cruise on the Sumida River.

Head to Odaiba, drive by Rainbow Bridge. Enjoy a visit to Odaiba Statue of liberty – a symbol of the Japan-France friendship.

We can’t finish our day in Tokyo without visit to Tokyo Tower.

Dinner at Indian Restaurant.

Post dinner, back to hotel.

Day 3:- Full Day Tokyo Sightseeing. Visit Chidorigafuchi Park & Meiji Shrine. Tokyo Bay Aqualine Experience. Visit Teamlab Borderless.

(Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner)

After breakfast at hotel, we will proceed for 2^nd day of Tokyo Sightseeing.

Our tour will start with visit of Chidorigafuchi Park.

You can rent a rowboat to explore the moat.

Lunch at Indian Restaurant.

Post lunch, we will experience Tokyo Bay Aqualine.

We will then proceed to Meiji Shrine.

Last but not the least – wander, explore, and discover in One Continuous Borderless World TeamLab Borderless.

It is a world of artworks without boundaries, a museum without a map created by art collective TeamLab. Artworks move out of rooms, relate to other works, influence each other, and at times intermingle, without boundaries. Immerse your body in borderless art.

Dinner at Indian Restaurant.

Post dinner, back to hotel.

Day 4:- Depart Tokyo. Visit Mt. Fuji 5^th Station. Lake Ashi Cruise. Hakone Owakudani Ropeway. Bullet Train Experience to Nagano (02h50m). Arrive Nagano.

(Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner)

After breakfast, checkout from hotel and proceed to Mt Fuji & Hakone.

After visit of Mt. Fuji, proceed for Lunch.

Lunch at Indian Restaurant.

Post lunch we will proceed to visit Lake Ashi.

Enjoy Owakudani Ropeway to experience one of the greatest expanses of natural scenery in Japan! Traveling from Sounzan to Owakudani, passengers can see the bottom of the valley below, and, when on route to Togendai, they can enjoy views of Mt. Fuji and Lake Ashi.

Later, transfer to Odawara station to board Bullet Train to Nagano.

Arrive Nagano and proceed for dinner.

Dinner at Indian Restaurant.

Post dinner, arrive at Hotel and Check-in.

Day 5:- Depart Nagano. Alpine Tour with Snow Corridor. Arrive Kanazawa.

(Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner)

After breakfast at hotel, check out and get ready to depart for Alpine Tour with Snow Corridor.

Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route is a mountain route through the Northern Japan Alps. Known as the “Roof of Japan,” it is a must-visit for nature lovers and thrill-seekers. From cable cars to electric buses to a ropeway, this exciting trek through Mt. Tateyama showcases the beauty of the Japan Alps while taking you on a thrilling ride through an elevation change of 2400 meters.

Led by an English-speaking guide, you will be accompanied on your journey to the Roof of Japan and back down again – the perfect way to experience one of Japan`s more remote and stunning landscapes.

Lunch at Indian Restaurant.

From Ogisawa, board the trolley bus and begin your ascent toward the summit using a number of mountain vehicles including trolley bus, cable car and Tateyama Ropeway – which at 1700 meters long.

Experience the dramatic mountain landscape of Chubu Sangaku National Park and visit the immense Snow Walls of the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route. These giant snowdrifts stand 20 meters high along the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route.

Reach the summit of 2,450 meters above sea level and access the ‘Roof of Japan’. Witness the dramatic alpine landscape of Japan’s highest mountain by walking through the snowfields. Look closely, you might spot the bird ptarmigan – once revered as a messenger of the gods – camouflaged against the snow.

Transfer to Kanazawa.

Arrive Kanazawa and proceed for dinner.

Dinner at Indian Restaurant.

Post dinner arrive at Hotel and Check-in.

Day 6:- Kanazawa Sightseeing with Visit to Kenrokuen Garden. Depart Kanazawa / Transfer to Nagoya (Approx. 3.15hrs). Visit Nabano na Sato. Arrive Kyoto.

(Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner)

After breakfast at hotel, we will proceed for Kanazawa Sightseeing.

Visit Kenrokuen Garden. It is justifiably ranked as one of Japan’s “three most beautiful gardens” alongside Mito’s Kairakuen and Okayama’s Korakuen. The spacious grounds used to be the outer garden of Kanazawa Castle. It features a variety of flowering trees which provide the garden with a different look every season.

Transfer to Nagoya by coach.

Nagoya, capital of Japan’s Aichi Prefecture, is a manufacturing and shipping hub in central Honshu. There is a lot to see and do in Nagoya, from traditional and ancient castles and museums to modern entertainment and theme parks.

Arrive Nagoya & Proceed for Lunch at Indian Restaurant.

Visit Nabano no Sato – The flower village.

Drive to Kyoto.

Arrive Kyoto and proceed for Dinner at Indian Restaurant.

Arrive at Hotel and check in.

Day 7:- Full Day Kyoto City Tour. Kimono Wearing Experience. Visit Kinkakuji Temple – The Golden Pavillion. Enjoy Sagano Romantic Train Ride. Visit Kiyomizudera Temple & Fushi Inari Shrine.

(Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner) 

After breakfast at hotel, we will proceed for Full Day Tour of Kyoto.

At First, get ready to have a wonderful and memorable opportunity for you and your whole family. Come and find out what it’s like to dress up in a traditional Japanese kimono!

Kimono labelled as the “National Costume of Japan”, is a beautiful item of traditional clothing, and is immediately associated with Japan. Wearing a kimono is a great way to gain an understanding of how it feels to dress in authentic Japanese clothing.  Don’t miss an opportunity to have memorable clicks in this wonderful clothing.

Continuing with City Tour, Kyoto is the home of renowned World Heritage sites such as Kinkakuji Temple.

Kinkakuji Temple is famous for its spectacular architecture that uniquely harmonizes the culture and prevailing design of court nobles, samurai, and Buddhism.

Later proceed for Sagano Romantic Train Ride.

Lunch at Indian Restaurant.

Post lunch, we will continue with visit to Kiyomizudera Temple.

Later visit Fushi Inara Shrine – a beautiful Shinto shrine in southern Kyoto, famous for its thousands of vermilion torii. The torii gates along the way are donations from individuals and companies and on the back of each gate is the name of the donor and the date of the donation.

Dinner at Indian Restaurant.

Post dinner back to hotel.

Day 8:- Depart Kyoto / Bullet Train Experience to Hiroshima (01h40m). Hiroshima Sightseeing. Bullet Train Experience to Osaka (01h30m).

(Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner) 

After breakfast at hotel, checkout and transfer to Kyoto Station to board Bullet train to Hiroshima.

Arrive Hiroshima and proceed for sightseeing.

Visit Peace Memorial Park which is defined both as a place for prayer for the atomic bomb victims as well as for permanent world peace.

Visit The Atomic Bomb Dome which is having distinctive domed steel frame and was included in UNESCO’s World Heritage List in December 1996 as a symbol of the devastation caused by the first atomic bomb in the history of humankind. It represents the importance of the abolition of nuclear weapons for everlasting world peace.

Lunch at Indian Restaurant.

Visit Miyajima Island.

The island’s most famous attraction is the 800-year-old Itsukushima Shrine.

It is most famous for its dramatic gate, or torii on the outskirts of the shrine, the sacred peaks of Mount Misen, extensive forests, and its ocean view. The View of Itsukushima Shrine Torii is stunning.

Later, we will board Bullet train to Osaka.

Arrive Osaka and proceed for dinner.

Dinner at Indian Restaurant.

Post dinner, arrive at hotel and Check-in.

Day 09:- Day Excursion to Nara. Visit Todaiji Temple & Nara Deer Park. Kasuga Taisha Shrine.

(Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner)

After Breakfast at hotel, proceed for Day Trip to Nara.

Arrive Nara and proceed for local sightseeing.

We will visit Todaiji Temple.

Then we will visit Nara Deer Park – a must visit destination in Kyoto. The deers were just around and you get to experience to feed them first hand. There are Almost 1200 wild deer roam in Nara Park.

Lunch at Indian Restaurant.

Visit Kasuga Taisha shrine. It is famous for Japan’s largest number of lanterns, with 2,000 stone lanterns and 1,000 hanging lanterns within the shrine premises.

Later transfer to Osaka.

Arrive Osaka and proceed for dinner.

Dinner at Indian Restaurant.

Post Dinner, back to hotel.

Day 10:- Full Day Osaka City Tour with Guide. Visit Osaka Castle, Nishinomaru Garden. Umeda Sky Building. Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan. Free time at Dotonbori Shopping Street.

(Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner)

After breakfast at hotel, we will proceed for Full Day Tour of Osaka.

We will start with Osaka Castle – one of the most famous landmarks in Japan.

Later, visit to Nishinomaru Garden – Picturesque city park known for its manicured lawns, sculpted topiary & cherry blossoms. A lush garden offers a view of the castle tower across the moat. In spring, some 600 cherry trees in full bloom attract many viewers.

Have a panoramic view of the Osaka metropolis from the ultramodern Umeda Sky Building which is a landmark of Osaka’s Kita Ward. It sprouted up at the end of Japan’s economic bubble in 1993. Head to the uniquely designed observation deck for a picture-perfect view of the expansive cityscape.

Lunch at Indian Restaurant.

Later visit Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan – the second aquarium in the world after Okinawa Ocean Expo Aquarium to start keeping whale sharks. Kaiyukan has successfully captivity or breeding 47 species of sharks, 37 species of rays, and 1 species of ghost shark, for a total of 85 species.

In the evening, enjoy some free time at Dotonbori Shopping Street.

Dinner at Indian Restaurant.

Post dinner, back to hotel.

Day 11:-  Depart Osaka. Flight to India.

(Breakfast)

After breakfast at hotel, checkout from hotel and transfer to Osaka International Airport for your flight back home, collecting wonderful memories and souvenirs from your Japan holidays.