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DAY 1 Day of travel across the International Date Line. DAY 2 Tokyo Arrive Tokyo Narita International Airport. After custom and immigration, you will be transferred to Crowne Plaza Metropolitan Hotel by airport limousine bus. Buffet dinner is served. (D) DAY 3 Mt. Fuji & Hakone Full day tour to Hakone National Park. Mt. Fuji, at 3776m, is not only Japan's tallest mountain but it's the best known symbol as well, is most attractive when its majestic presence is snowcapped. On the tour, enjoy a mountain view of the surrounding Owakudani valley's hell hot spring, a Lake Ashi cruise and a visit to the historic Tokugawa Shogun Sekisho check point near an avenue of aged cyptomeria tree. Return to Tokyo in the late afternoon. After dinner walking tour through dazzle Tokyo street. Overnight at Crowne Plaza Metropolitan Hotel. (B|L|D) DAY 4 Tokyo Tour begins at 5:00am in the morning for an exciting Tsukiji Fish Market tour. See the famous tuna auction and its busy booming morning buying and selling of seafood and produce. You can sample the famous ramen noodle soup and the freshest sushi at renowned market stalls of Inoue and Sushi Zanmai. After a visit to Honganji Temple to see the Morning Prayer, then head for Akihibara Electronic Town or Ameyoko cho flea market for window shopping. Tour ends after a visit to Edo Tokyo Museum with a lunch. Disband at Tokyo Ginza area for a free afternooon. (Please take public transportation back to hotel.) Dinner is at Japanese style Bistro. Overnight is at Crowne Plaza Metropolitan Hotel. (B|L|D) DAY 5 Tokyo - Yamanaka Onsen Tokyo is a dynamically modern metropolis of 12 million people. This is where tradition from centuries past exist side by side with the ever-moving elements of the latest in the urban culture that radiate their own special heat & energy. Explore Imperial Palace, Diet Building and Hamarikyu Detached Palace Garden. Then take ferry through Tokyo's mother river of Sumidagawa to Asakusa Kannon Temple with its bustling Nakamise Shopping arcade for a glimpse of Tokyo's past. Depart Tokyo by late afternoon flight to Yamanaka Town located in beautiful setting Yamanaka Valley and Kakusenkei Creek. Overnight is at the world class hot spring spa at Yamanaka Kajikaso Resort to rejuvenate your travel fatigue. (B|L|D) DAY 6 Yamanaka - Inami - Kanazawa Morning departure to the small, cozy, old sculpture town of Inami. |
Walking around town, the soft sounds of wooden hammers from the carving shops can be heard. We will tour the serene Zuisenji Temple Gate built in 1607. After lunch at KenKenochin over looking the Kanazawa Castle, we will visit Kenroku garden, is known as one of the three most beautiful landscape gardens in Japan. Its tea house and vistas are the epitome of Edo period, we also can enjoy beautiful Kutani ceramic and Yuzen Kimono fabric at Arts and Craft Exhibition Hall. Overnight is at Kanazawa Hotel Inn. (B|L|D) DAY 7 Kanazawa - Gokkayama - Takayama Morning departure by coach to the brief stop at Gokkayama Pioneer village to enjoy its UNESCO Heritage of AinokuraGassho farm house village. These 400 years old houses will take you back to 16th century of Japan. After a delicious mountain vegetarian lunch, bus will drive up to the beautiful Japanese Alps via scenic route, one can enjoy quiet Japanese country-side setting deep in the mountain. Arrival at the rustic charm Takayama town, the whole town is museum like, dotted with attraction after attraction, we will shop and do sake tasting at the old street of San-Machi Suji with its historic building and quaint atmosphere. Overnight is at Hotel Associa Onsen Spa which renowned for its mineral hot spring. (B|L|D) DAY 8 Takayama - Mageme - Tsumagome - Nara Morning walking tour to market at Miyagawa River where many handicrafts and small gift items are displayed. Then Takayama Jinya Museum and Yatai Kaikan where we can see the festival floats and puppets used for matsuri, the farmer's thanksgiving festival after harvest. These colourful floats are decorated with complicated artistic carving gilded work with wood and metal. We will then explore Mid- Mountain Heritage Way of Nakasendo to Magome Pass and Post Town Tsumagome. The setting and atmosphere remain unchanged since the old samurai days. Lunch is at local restaurant. Then drive through Nagoya into ancient capital city of Nara. Overnight is at Nara Hotel Fujita. (B|L|D) DAY 9 Nara Nara is an ancient capital built in 6th Century.We will have full day tour to Kofukuji. Incense smoke wafts into the cool morning air at the main gate. Five Story Pagoda,Wooden Temple of Todaiji which house a colossal image of Buddha castled in 734, is like an unseen planet pulling you into the orbit. At first sight the main Buddha Hall appears modest, set in immense open space. But then you realize its scale, how tiny visitor appears in the nine meter high doorway. |
The peaceful Deer Park and Kasuga Grand Shrine built in 768, is famous for the 3000 stone and bronze lanterns that stand in rank and hang in battalions around the brilliant vermillion shrine.A visit to Osaka Castle, a sympol of western Japanese samurai budo., situated in the beautiful Osaka Castle Park. Overnight is at Osaka ANA Hotel. (B|L|D) DAY 10 Kyoto Kyoto was Japan's capital for over 1000 years, and during that time became the repository of much of the best of Japanese art, culture, religion and thought.We will tour Kiyomizu Temple, is famous for its wide wooden veranda jutting out over an exquisite valley that extend to a panoramic view of the city, and Sanjusangendo, noted for its 1001 gilded wooden statues of the Goddess of Mercy. Nijo Castle and colourful Kimono show followed by lunch. Then, Golden Pavillion and Heian Shrine's inner garden where you will enjoy cherry blossom or tree and flower of four seasons. All these are the world class cultural and heritage sites. Overnight is at Osaka ANA Hotel. (B|L|D) DAY 11 Kyoto - Seto Inland Sea - Hiroshima Morning departure to Seto Naikai Inland Sea, we will make stop at Seto Grand Bridge, the world most impressive suspension bridge connecting Main Island and Shikoku Island. After boat cruise and lunch, the bus will head to Hiroshima Peace Park to visit the Atomic Bomb Dome and its Museum, the Peace Flame burns in front of the Memorial Cenotaph, never to be extinguished until all nuclear weapons are abolished. Overnight is at Hiroshima Century 21 Hotel. (B|L|D) DAY 12 Hiroshima - Miyajima Island -Kintaikyo - Osaka Morning, a short drive to Iwakuni city to see the limpid Nishiki River, the undulating Kintai Bridge and the historical ambience of a former castle town. Followed by an oyster lunch and tour to Miyajima Island, visit the colourful Itsukushima Shrine. Its red Torii gate built in 6th century, stand in the sea during high tide and is famous for its grand and unique contraction. Return to Osaka for our farewell dinner at ANA Hotel Osaka. (B|L|D) DAY 13 Osaka - Departure Your 12 days of travel will conclude after breakfast, the tour disbands at the hotel. Take airport bus to Kansai or Itami Airport to continue your journey. (B)
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