The operator’s representative meets you at Narita or Haneda Airport and arranges the transfer to your Tokyo hotel (complimentary for arrivals between 8 am and 10 pm; there may be a short wait while the group is assembled). Check-in starts at 3 pm and you will need your passport; if you arrive early, leave your luggage with the hotel and start exploring Tokyo on your own.
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43-storey tower in Tokyo Dome City, Bunkyo, with 1,006 rooms on floors 9 to 41, eight restaurants and bars from the lobby lounge to the 43rd-floor sky restaurant, a 7th-floor fitness room and a summer garden pool; two minutes' walk from JR Suidobashi station and five from Korakuen metro.
After breakfast, Senso-ji Temple, Tokyo’s oldest, and the Nakamise-dori market street leading up to it; a view of Tokyo Skytree; Nijubashi Bridge at the Imperial Palace; and Shinjuku Kabukicho, the neon entertainment district.
In the afternoon the coach leaves the city for the Mt Fuji lakes area, where you stay at a Japanese hot-spring hotel: a traditional dinner, then the onsen bath.
Seasonal additions in Tokyo, weather permitting: cherry blossoms at Chidorigafuchi and Shinjuku Gyoen (March 22 – April 12); autumn colours at Yoyogi Park and Rikugien Garden (October 18 – November 15).
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Japanese-modern hotel opened in 2019 near Lake Kawaguchi, an 11-minute walk from Kawaguchiko station, with 120 non-smoking rooms (most of them tatami rooms with futons, half facing Mt Fuji), a buffet restaurant with a Mt Fuji view, and a communal bath with indoor carbonated and silky baths plus an open-air bath facing the mountain.
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Resort hotel in the forest at the foot of Mt Fuji, a five-minute walk from Lake Motosu, with a main building and an east wing of twin, tatami and Japanese–Western rooms from 27 to 54 m², a large bath with men's and women's open-air baths (artificially mineralised Komyo-stone water), and a second-floor buffet restaurant facing Mt Fuji that serves a crab-and-steak dinner buffet and breakfast.
Drive up to Mt Fuji’s 5th Station, roughly halfway up the mountain, for the views (when the road is closed by weather the Mt Fuji World Heritage Center museum is visited instead). Then Oshino Hakkai, a village of eight clear spring pools fed by Fuji snowmelt, with old thatched houses and water wheels, and Bussharito Heiwa Park, a peace park with a white stupa and Japanese gardens.
Continue to Nagoya. The evening is free: the Osu shopping district, a covered arcade of small shops and food stalls around Osu Kannon temple, is the place to go. Dinner on your own.
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Hilton's 28-storey landmark tower in Fushimi, between Nagoya Station and Sakae, opened in 1989 with 460 rooms of 30 m² and up in a Japanese-modern style, three restaurants, a bar and a café, a 15 m indoor heated pool, gym, sauna and tennis court on the 7th floor, an executive lounge and a 1,000-seat ballroom; Fushimi subway station is three minutes' walk.
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Keihan Hotels' 13-storey business hotel in central Nagoya, opened in April 2020 with 259 non-smoking rooms from 17.5 to 31 m², a buffet-breakfast restaurant run by the Kyoto restaurant Madoi, self check-in kiosks and a coin laundry, four minutes' walk from Marunouchi and Hisaya-odori subway stations and ten minutes by taxi from Nagoya Station.
After breakfast, Nagoya Castle, the seat of the Owari branch of the Tokugawa clan, with its golden shachihoko on the keep. Then the drive to Kyoto and Kinkaku-ji, the Golden Pavilion, its upper floors covered in gold leaf above the mirror pond.
The afternoon is in Gion, the historic geisha district: Yasaka Shrine, a walk along Hanamachi, the Edo-period geisha quarter, and a quiet stretch of the Kamo River. Dinner on your own.
Seasonal additions in Kyoto, weather permitting: cherry trees at Maruyama Park (March 22 – April 12); autumn colours in Arashiyama around Togetsukyo Bridge (October 18 – November 15).
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Japan's first Hilton Garden Inn, opened in November 2022 on Karasuma-dori in central Kyoto: a nine-storey hotel with 250 rooms, the Together & Co. all-day restaurant, a fitness centre and a 24-hour shop, a four-minute walk from Shijo and Gojo subway stations and three minutes from Kyoto Station by subway.
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Keihan Hotels' five-storey hotel five minutes' walk from the Hachijo East exit of Kyoto Station, opened in December 2018 with 234 non-smoking rooms from 14 to 22 m², a large public bath with indoor and open-air tubs, self check-in kiosks, a coin laundry and a buffet-breakfast restaurant run by the Kyoto restaurant Madoi.
The morning starts at the Kyoto Imperial Palace, home of the emperors until 1868, then Fushimi Inari Taisha and its tunnels of vermilion torii gates up the hillside.
On to Nara, Japan’s first permanent capital: Nara Park, where more than a thousand deer roam freely, and the lantern-lined Kasuga Taisha shrine next to it. Then the drive to Osaka for Osaka Castle Park.
The evening is free in Shinsaibashi, the covered shopping arcade, and Dotonbori, the canal-side food street under the Glico sign. Dinner on your own — takoyaki, okonomiyaki and kushikatsu are the local dishes.
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Miyako City Osaka Hommachi, opened in June 2020 by Kintetsu's Miyako Hotels & Resorts, is a 308-room hotel in the Semba business district of central Osaka, two minutes' walk from Sakaisuji-Hommachi metro. Every room has a balcony and a bathroom with a separate washing area; a Chinese brasserie serves the buffet breakfast and a free guest lounge is open all day.
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Sheraton-branded Miyako Hotels tower on the Uemachi Plateau, directly connected to Kintetsu Osaka-Uehommachi station and two stops from Namba, with 574 rooms, French, Sichuan and Japanese restaurants, a 20th-floor Sheraton Club lounge, a free 24-hour gym and a members' health club with an indoor pool, and airport limousine buses from the door.
After breakfast and check-out, a short drive to Kobe: Harborland, the waterfront district by Kobe Port Tower, and Nankinmachi, Kobe’s Chinatown, with its street-food stalls.
In the afternoon, Himeji Castle, the White Heron Castle — Japan’s finest surviving feudal castle and a UNESCO World Heritage site, with its white-plastered keep and maze of walls and gates. At dusk you board the Shinkansen with your guide for the ride to Hiroshima.
Lunch and dinner are on your own today.
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Hiroshima's tallest hotel: a 35-storey, 150 m tower opened in 1994 in the Motomachi Cred complex in the city centre, with 491 rooms and suites, eight restaurants and bars including two on the 33rd floor, an indoor pool and health club on the 8th floor, and 31 function rooms. Peace Memorial Park is a ten-minute walk.
The morning is given to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and Museum and the Atomic Bomb Dome, the skeleton of the exhibition hall left standing after August 6, 1945, and now a World Heritage site and a memorial to peace.
Then the boat to Miyajima Island, counted among Japan’s three most scenic views, for Itsukushima Shrine: a Heian-period shrine built out over the water, with its great vermilion torii standing in the sea at high tide. Deer wander the island’s streets, and the local oysters and momiji manju cakes are worth trying.
In the late afternoon the Shinkansen takes you back to Osaka. Lunch and dinner on your own.
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Miyako City Osaka Hommachi, opened in June 2020 by Kintetsu's Miyako Hotels & Resorts, is a 308-room hotel in the Semba business district of central Osaka, two minutes' walk from Sakaisuji-Hommachi metro. Every room has a balcony and a bathroom with a separate washing area; a Chinese brasserie serves the buffet breakfast and a free guest lounge is open all day.
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Sheraton-branded Miyako Hotels tower on the Uemachi Plateau, directly connected to Kintetsu Osaka-Uehommachi station and two stops from Namba, with 574 rooms, French, Sichuan and Japanese restaurants, a 20th-floor Sheraton Club lounge, a free 24-hour gym and a members' health club with an indoor pool, and airport limousine buses from the door.
After a final breakfast the tour ends. Your guide will give you directions for the journey to Kansai International Airport (KIX) by public transport, which is at your own expense — the Nankai or JR trains from central Osaka take about 50 minutes, the airport limousine bus about an hour.
🧾 Prices shown are the land package. Service fee $160 per person is mandatory and is added at checkout.
✈ International flights not included — quoted from your city.
⚠ Peak dates (public holidays, summer): est. +CAD $300 per person, confirmed before you pay.
