Best of Japan

Cities Covered:

• Tokyo             :  3 Nights
• Hiroshima      :  1 Night
• Osaka            :  3 Nights

Highlights:

Tokyo:

• Visit to Shibuya Scramble
• Tokyo City Tour with Shinjuka Garden (Cherry Blossom Spot)
• Asakusa & Sensoji Sightseeing
• Team Lab Borderless Show with Entrance
• The Tokyo Tower with Entrance
• Excursion to Mt. Fuji – Hakone from Tokyo

Hiroshima:

• Bullet Train Journey from Tokyo to Hiroshima
• Hiroshima City Tour with Atomic Bomb Dome
• Excursion to Miyajima Island & Itsukushima Shrine

Osaka:

• Excursion to Kyoto – Nara City (Visit of Kinkaku Ji Temple & Todai Ji Temple)
• Arashiyama Bamboo Tour
• Osaka City Tour with Osaka Castle
• Free Time for Shopping at Dotonbori & Shinshaibashi

Meals:

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

Day 1:- Arrive Tokyo. Visit Shibuya Scramble.

(Dinner)

Arrive Narita / Haneda Airport, clear immigration and proceed to arrival area.

Arrive Tokyo hotel and checkin.

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.

Freshenup at the hotel and then in the evening, we will proceed to Shibuya Scramble. It is one of the twenty-three city wards of Tokyo, but often refers to just the popular shopping and entertainment area found around Shibuya Station.

Later proceed for Dinner at Indian Restaurant.

Day 2:- Tokyo City Tour. Shinjuku Garden (Cherry Blossom Spot) & Sensoji Buddhist Temple. Team Lab Borderless Show & Entrance to Tokyo Tower.

(Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner)

Today After breakfast, proceed for Tokyo City Tour.

Visit Shinjuku Garden which is at its best during Cherry Blossom.

Shinjuku Gyoen is a large garden, originally built for the Imperial Family. There are 65 types of cherry blossoms, about 1,100 trees in all, planted in the garden, and it might be fun to try and find out the differences between them. Visitors can enjoy three different types of gardens: the French Garden, with its beautiful tree-lined avenues, the English Landscape Garden, which has a spacious lawn, and the traditional Japanese-style Garden.

Later we will proceed for photo stop at Imperial Palace, Asakusa for Sensoji Buddhist Temple. Some free time at Nakamise Shopping Street.

After lunch head to Odaiba, drive by Rainbow Bridge.

We then visit Team Lab Borderless Show and that show is one of the finest in Tokyo.

The museum is a large-scale 3D space created with 520 computers and 470 projectors. The exhibition is composed of five worlds: Borderless World, teamLab Athletics Forest, Future Park, Future of Lamps, and EN Tea House. The order of the art that visitors see is random at Borderless World. As a result, there are no borders between each piece of artwork, and sometimes they may even blend together. There is also no boundary between the viewer and the artwork, so museum-goers will feel like they have become part of the art exhibit.

Lastly, we visit Tokyo Tower.

We can’t finish our day in Tokyo without visit to Tokyo Tower. With 333 meters, Tokyo Tower is 13 meters taller than its model, the Eiffel Tower of Paris, and the world’s tallest self-supporting steel tower. It was completed in the year 1958 as a symbol for Japan’s rebirth as a major economic power and serves as a television and radio broadcast antenna and tourist attraction.

Dinner at Indian Restaurant.

Day 3:- Excursion to Mt. Fuji – Hakone with Lake Ashi Cruise.

(Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner)

Today after breakfast, we will leave Tokyo and proceed for Day trip to Mt Fuji – Hakone.

We first start with visit to Mt. Fuji (Fujisan) which stand at 3776 meters, is Japan’s highest mountain. Out of 8 station, only till 5^th station Tourist Bus can go and we will see Mt. Fuji from there only.

Fuji’s exceptionally symmetrical cone, which is snow-capped for about five months of the year is commonly used as a cultural icon of Japan and it is frequently depicted in art and photography. It’s surprising that the nearly perfectly shaped volcano has been worshipped as a sacred mountain and experienced big popularity among artists and common people.

After Lunch proceed to Hakone.

Hakone is close to Tokyo and Mt. Fuji and is a popular travel destination. Hakone can be enjoyed year-round with its stunning seasonal landscape and many events.

Visit Mt. Komagatake ropeway (One way in Ropeway) which opened in 1967 as Japan’s first mountain ropeway line. The area is famous for being home to a treasure trove of different rare alpine flowers and other alpine plants. Take a ride on the central Alps Komagatake ropeway and enjoy experiencing one of the greatest expanses of natural scenery in Japan!Later, proceed to Lake Ashi or Hakone Lake, a scenic lake in the Hakone area of Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan and enjoy scenic cruise on the Lake. It is a crater lake that lies along the southwest wall of the caldera of Mount Hakone, a complex volcano. The lake is known for its views of Mt. Fuji and its numerous hot springs. A number of pleasure boats and ferries traverse the lake and providing scenic views for tourists and passengers.

Dinner at Indian Restaurant.

Day 4:- Depart Tokyo / Bullet Train to Hiroshima. Hiroshima City Tour with Atomic Bomb Dome.

(Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner)

Today after breakfast checkout from hotel & proceed to Hiroshima by Shinkansen (Bullet train).

After Lunch proceed for Hiroshima City Tour including photo stop at Hiroshima peace memorial park & Museum.

Later proceed to visit Atomic Bomb Dome.

Atomic Bomb Dome is One of the only structures that wasn’t completely leveled. The A-Bomb Dome, was once the Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall. It has been preserved untouched, and though fenced off from the public, is in clear view and illuminated at night. It was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1996. The Memorial Mound contains the cremated ashes of 70,000 unidentified victims.

After visit to A Bomb Dome, proceed to Hotel for Checkin.

Freshen-up and then Dinner at Indian Restaurant.

Day 5:- Depart Hiroshima / Arrive Osaka. Enroute Visit to Miyajima Island.

(Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner)

Today after Breakfast at hotel, check-out and transfer to Osaka by Coach.

Enroute we will stop for visit to Miyajima Island.

Visit Miyajima Island & Itsukusima shrine.

Its an island in the western part of the Inland Sea of Japan, located in the northwest of Hiroshima Bay. It is popularly known as Miyajima. Itsukushima is famous for the Itsukushima Shrine, a UNESCO World Heritage site. According to records, the shrine was established in the time of Empress Suiko. The warrior-courtier Taira no Kiyomori gave the shrine its present form. In 1555, Mori Motonari defeated Sue Harukata at the Battle of Miyajima. Toyotomi Hideyoshi built a large building, the Senjo-kaku, on a hill above the shrine.

After Lunch proceed to Osaka. Enroute photo stop at Kurashiki Canal.

Kurashiki was an important point along the distribution route of Japan’s most important commodity, rice. Large quantities of rice from the surrounding area were brought into Kurashiki, intermediately stored there in storehouses before being shipped to Osaka and Edo.

Arrive Osaka and proceed for Dinner at Indian Restaurant.

Day 6:- Excursion to Kyoto – Nara with visit to Kinkaku Ji Temple.

(Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner)

After breakfast at hotel, we will proceed for our Day trip to Kyoto – Nara by Coach

Kyoto – Formerly known as MIYAKO, is a city located in the central part of the island of Honshu, Japan. It has a population close to 1.5 million. Formerly the imperial capital of Japan for more than one thousand years, Founded in 794, the city of Kyoto has existed for more than a millennium.

Kyoto is the home of renowned World Heritage sites such as Kinkakuji Temple and its Golden Pavilion, Gingakuji Temple, Nijo Castle, the old Imperial Castle, or Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine, which has been ranked as the most popular tourist destination in Kyoto in 2017.

After visit of historical sightseeing points of Kyoto.

Post lunch proceed for Nara sightseeing.

Visit Nara Deer Park & Todai ji Temple

Todai ji Temple – is one of Japan’s most famous and historically significant temples and a landmark of Nara. The temple was constructed in 752 as the head temple of all provincial Buddhist temples of Japan and grew so powerful that the capital was moved from Nara to Nagaoka in 784 in order to lower the temple’s influence on government affairs.

In the evening, back to Osaka.

Dinner at an Indian restaurant.

Day 7:- Arashiyama Bamboo Tour & Shopping at Osaka.

(Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner)

Today after breakfast proceed for Sagano bamboo Arashiyama tour

Visit Sagano bamboo groves Arashiyama with Togetsukyo bridge and then head back to Osaka.

Drive by view of Osaka castle.

After lunch, free time for shopping in Osaka.

Shop on your last day of holiday in Japan at some of the famous shopping sites of Osaka.

Osaka’s most famous shopping area for international visitors is Dotonbori, with an overwhelming number of giant billboards crammed into small spaces, while the neighboring area of Shinsaibashi is bustling with rows of restaurants and clothing stores. All your food and shopping in one place.

After shopping, dinner at an Indian restaurant.

Day 8:- Depart Osaka / Arrive Home.

(Breakfast)

Today after breakfast checkout from your Hotel and transfer to Airport for your flight back home, collecting all of those wonderful memories and souvenirs gathered from Japan Holidays.

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