Small group escorted tour (maximum 12 travellers) – amazing colours.
Local knowledge is the key to the most rewarding travel experiences and this tour has been custom designed to offer you an amazing experience of Japan. The tour traverses six prefectures of Japan to offer an impressive range of locations, landscape, cuisine, and experiences. Accommodation will include western style hotels and traditional ryokans (Japanese inns). Transportation in Japan will include private coaches, subways, local trains, and shinkansen (bullet trains).
This tour is for adults only and is especially suitable for the traveller with no Japanese language ability who is looking for a comprehensive introduction to this unique country. The Japan tour will be coordinated and accompanied by an escort who will provide you with all the information you need to understand the culture and enjoy your trip. A detailed information booklet will provide information about locations visited and a background in aspects of Japanese history and culture.
DEPARTURE/RETURN LOCATION | Tokyo / Kyoto | ||||||||||||
DATES | Meeting in Tokyo Monday 11 November 2019 Finishing in Kyoto Monday 25 November 2019 14 nights stay in Japan |
||||||||||||
INCLUDED |
|
||||||||||||
NOT INCLUDED |
|
Highlights
- Tokyo cultural and modern icons
- Tea experience at tranquil garden teahouse
- Traditional ryokan stay with a dinner featuring an Aomori Nebuta Matsuri festival show and hot spring at Hoshino Resort Aomoriya
- Private coach tour of autumn foliage in Hachimantai Towada National Park, Aomori
- Historic town of Hiraizumi in Iwate
- Traditional river boat ride through the dramatic natural scenery of Geibikei Gorge.
- Paper making activity
- UNESCO World Heritage Toshogu Shrine & autumn scenery in Nikko
- A recreated Edo Village and movie set showcasing samurai, ninja, and geisha
- Multi course banquet dinner at ryokan inn
- One of Japan’s top 3 landscape gardens
- Kanazawa old samurai residence and streets
- Kyoto UNESCO World Heritage temples & shrines & gardens
- Bamboo forest in Kyoto
- Private dinner with a geisha or maiko (apprentice geisha)
Additional information
twin share | AUD 7,300 |
---|---|
single traveller | AUD 8,300 |
Add flight | from AUD 744 |
Tour Reviews
Hi Mitsue and Jenni,
Thank you both for putting together such a terrific trip! I loved my first visit to Japan and it certainly won’t be my last one. I can’t believe that we saw and experienced so much in such a short time. It was intense but it also had a good balance of free time.
Jenni, you are the best tour leader I have come across by a long way and you certainly went above and beyond yesterday when you helped me with my last bits of shopping. And, guess what! My big suitcase was only 19.4kg. I thought it would be more after all the last minute things that I just had to get. All the breakables got home safely and I look forward to using them.
Mitsue, I’m sure that you know already that Jenni is a wonderful tour leader and I want to add my praises to the list that I’m sure you have already. She is very organised but also very flexible and so we were all able to see and do things that we enjoyed. And I admire her energy and her tact and diplomacy in situations which could have been difficult. Nothing was too much trouble for her and she made sure that we all enjoyed our tour and I think that we all felt a lot more confident exploring a country where we couldn’t speak or write the language and where some of the food and customs were completely unfamiliar to us. I am amazed that we saw and experienced so much in such a short time.
I got home this morning and it’s taken a real effort to get used to life in Perth again. Possibly that’s because I didn’t sleep much on the plane so my brain’s not working very well. It seemed strange to be driving a car again – and I’m really missing those Japanese toilets, vbg.
Thank you again for one of the best holidays that I’ve ever had. I’m already thinking about when I can return to that amazing country.
Leave a Review