Mystical Japan

ITINERARY

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  • Stay 3 nights: Hotel Gracery Shinjuku

    Sites:

    • Godzilla Statue

    • Shinjuku neighborhood shopping, restaurant and bar crawl

    • Akihabara anime cafes

    • Suibobashi wrestling shops

    • Ikebukuro Sumo Experience

    • Muscle Girl Bar

  • Stay 1 night: Hotel Route Inn Grand Nakano Obuse

    Sites:

    • Shakuson-ji Temple / Nunobuki Kannon

    • Nagano Meijitei (Katsudon specialty)

    • Jigokudani Snow Monkey Park

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

  • Stay 3 nights: The Hotel Sanruku Kanazawa

    Sites:

    • Samurai district + Nomura house museum

    • Oyama Shrine

    • Kanazwa Castle & Ishiura Shrines

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

    • Kanazawa Station (Sushi Train)

    • Gold ice cream, Gold sushi

    • Geisha tea district Rickshaw tour

    • Geisha Evenings Show

    • Gold Leaf Center (Make your own gold leaf plates)

  • Stay 3 nights: Liber Hotel

    Sites:

    • Shopping: Nintendo Osaka, Jump Shop, Hero Gangu

    • Osaka Burlesque Show

    • Universal Japan

  • Stay 1 night: Prince Hotel Shin-Yokohama

    Sites:

    • Bullet Train

    • Snoopy Museum

    • Great Buddha

SUMMER WEATHER

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.
Shakuson-ji Temple.jpg

Tokyo
Hotel Gracery Shinjuku

DAY 2 - 4

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.

Nagano
Route Inn Grand Nakano

DAY 5

Hit the road and experience cliffside hidden temples and delicious pork Katsu on the way to the stunning mountains of Nagano. Take a walk through the serene Togakushi-jinja forest to visit ancient shrines.

The next morning, visit the Snow Monkey park before continuing on to Kanazawa.

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. Attend a Geisha show. Try authentic 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 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.

Drive along the famously picturesque Echizen-kaigan Coast and visit the odd Hanibe Cave art installations, climb the Edo-era Maruoka Castle without the crowds and enjoy the coastal views on your way to Osaka.

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

Osaka
Hotel Liber

DAY 9 - 11

Tokyo
Prince Hotel Shin-Yokohama

DAY 12 - 13

Take the famouse Bullet Train back to the Tokyo suburb of Yokohama and visit the Snoopy Museum and Kototu-in Great Buddha on your last day in Japan.

Depart for the the USA the next day. Haneda airport is a short 30 minute train ride from the hotel.

Total Estimated Costs:

Flight: $2500 per person RT Orlando to Tokyo Economy
Land: $3500 per couple based on double occupancy

Land Cost Includes: 11 nights hotel, rental car, train ticket, and entry to Monkey Park, Geisha Show, Maruoka Castle, Osaka Burlesque Show and Universal.