• United/All Nippon via Houston

    • Business Class

    • Stay 3 nights: Hotel Gracery Shinjuku

      • Superior double with view

      • Godzilla Statue

    • Shinjuku neighborhood shopping, restaurant and bar crawl

    • Ueno Zoo & Pandas

    • Akihabara anime cafes

    • Suibobashi wrestling shops

    • Ikebukuro Sumo Experience

    • Muscle Girl Bar

    • Kotoku-in Great Buddha

    • Snoppy museum

    • Oyaki Cafe (sanzokuyaki and oyaki buns)

    • Shakuson-ji Temple / Nunobuki Kannon

    • Nagano Meijitei (Katsudon specialty)

    • Stay: Hotel Route Inn Grand Nakano Obuse

    • Jigokudani Snow Monkey Park

    • Togakushi Shrine Okusha (Main Shrine) The Great Torii Gate, & Lower Shrine

    • Chokeiji (buddhist hillside statues)

    • Stay 4 nights: The Hotel Sanruku Kanazawa

    • Samurai district + Nomura house museum

    • Oyama Shrine

    • Kanazwa Castle & Ishiura Shrines

    • Shopping

    • Omichi market (Noto beef, Omicho Croquette, Takoyaki)

    • Kanazawa Station (Sushi Train)

    • Hanibe Caves

    • Maruoka Castle

    • Crab house for lunch

    • Shirahige Shrine Torii

    • Stay two nights: Suiran Luxury Collection Hotel

      • Executive Room with Private Bath

    • Arashiyma Bamboo forest (walk through park to back entrance)

    • Gioji Temple & nearby cemetery

    • Otagi Nenbutsu Temple

    • Arhat (statue garden)

    • Diorama Japan (largest model train display)

    • Return Car

    • Train to Osaka

    • Shopping: Nintendo Osaka, Jump Shop, Hero Gangu

    • Osaka Burlesque Show

    • Stay two nights: Liber Hotel

    • Universal Japan

    • Depart 3:45pm via Houston

    • Arrive 8pm

Mystical Japan

June 2028

Warm with Showers

High: 80°s | Low: 70°s

Group of seven women with colorful shorts, smiling and hugging in front of a pink background with screens displaying similar images.
A vibrant alleyway in Japan during evening with colorful illuminated signs, lanterns, and a red torii gate in the background.
A group of sumo wrestlers sitting in a circle on a dirt floor inside a traditional sumo training room, with towels hanging on the wall and windows letting in natural light.
Row of various owls and birds perched on a white surface against a plain background.
A young woman dressed in a pink and white maid costume with a headband and lace details, smiling and making a peace sign with both hands, standing in front of colorful anime posters.
Exhibition of large, glossy, white and black sculptures of Snoopy, a cartoon dog, in a bright white gallery.
Large bronze statue of Buddha with people gathered in front, trees in the background, sunny sky with clouds.

Tokyo
Hotel Gracery Shinjuku

DAY 1 - 3

Enjoy three days in Tokyo from your base in Shinjuku, one of the most energetic, entertaining neighborhoods in the central city. Close to all major subway lines, Shinjuku offers bars, eateries and culture galore. Bar hop and taste the many kinds of saki, enjoy sushi and Japanese street food, all footsteps from your hotel which features the largest Godzilla statue in Japan.

Explore the city, attend a sumo training, Akihabara’s anime girls and owl cafes, the Muscle Girl bar and more.

Enjoy a Great Buddha, Snoopy Museum, cliffside hidden temples, and delicious pork Katsu on the way to the stunning mountains of Nagano.

The next morning, visit the Snow Monkey park, and take a walk through a serene forest to visit shrines before hitting the road to Kanazawa.

Nagano
Route Inn Grand Nakano

DAY 4 - 5

Kanazawa
Hotel Sanraku

DAY 6 - 8

Step back into the Edo era of samuri and geisha in Kanazawa. With less crowds than Kyoto, here you can enjoy a more authentic experience of old Japan.

Visit the home of a great Samauri. Eat gold leaf ice cream. Enjoy a Geisha show. Try authenitc Noto beef. View the Kanazawa Castle and surrounding tori shrines. Eat sushi from a train that delivers your dinner. Kanazawa has it all.

A narrow street at dusk with vibrant purple and pink sunset sky. Traditional Japanese houses line both sides, with warm streetlights illuminating the scene, greenery, and trees along the sidewalk.
Traditional Japanese temple built on a cliffside with a red wooden structure and dark blue roof, surrounded by rocky terrain and greenery.
Two monkeys by a greenish pond with rocks and lush greenery in the background.
Traditional Japanese castle surrounded by blooming cherry blossom trees during sunset with a sky of orange, pink, and blue hues, and paper lanterns in the foreground.
A conveyor belt sushi train at a sushi restaurant with plates of sushi passing by, Japanese signage, and a wooden shelf overhead.
Two vanilla ice cream cones wrapped in gold foil, outdoors with trees and a building in the background.

Visit the unusual Hanibe Caves and Maruoka Castle on the scenic coastal drive to Arashiyama. Take a walk through the famous Arashiyma Bamboo forest, beautiful solitary moss-covered Gioji Temple and Otagi Nenbutsu Temple.

Arashiyama
Suiran Luxury Hotel

DAY 9 - 10

Have fun in Osaka visiting the Nintendo Osaka store, Jump Shop, and Hero Gangu. Have a debautcherous night out at the Osaka Burlesque Show. Spend the day at Universal Japan riding lost gems like Jaws.

Osaka
Hotel Liber

DAY 11 - 12

A quiet, narrow street at dusk with colorful purple and pink sky, traditional Japanese houses with tiled roofs, street lamps, and lush greenery.
A traditional Japanese temple with a red wooden structure and curved black roof, built on stilts against a rocky hillside, with trees and clear blue sky in the background.
Two monkeys on rocks by a green pond, surrounded by trees and rocks.
Traditional Japanese castle surrounded by cherry blossom trees in full bloom during sunset with paper lanterns in the foreground.
A moving sushi conveyor train with plates of sushi on a restaurant conveyor belt, Japanese signage, and colorful sushi dishes.
Two vanilla ice cream cones wrapped with gold foil, held up outdoors with trees and a building in the background.

Enjoy the morning in Osaka. Then take the bullet train back to Tokyo and relax on your last night in Japan. Depart for the the USA at 3:45pm the next day. Arrive home at 8pm.

Tokyo
Hilton Tokyo Odaiba

DAY 13 -14