-
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)
-
Gold ice cream, Gold sushi
Gold Leaf Center (Make your own gold leaf plates)
-
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
Stay two nights: Liber Hotel
-
Universal Japan
-
A seats = mt Fuji views
Stay: Hilton Tokyo Odaiba
Unicron Gundam Statue
-
Depart 3:45pm via Houston
Arrive 8pm
Mystical Japan
June 2028
Warm with Showers
High: 80°s | Low: 70°s
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.
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
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.
