Grand Tours
3 ready-made routes with the logistics worked out — classic city pairings and longer country grand tours, each stitched from our individual city plans with the connecting transport and pacing already sorted.
The classic pairingTokyo + KyotoThe essential first-timer's Japan: the neon, depth, and restaurant culture of Tokyo balanced against the temples, gardens, and old-capital calm of Kyoto. The bullet train makes them a seamless pair — most travelers split roughly even, or tilt a night toward whichever pulls them more.See the route →Kōyō season · the grand tourAutumn in JapanA two-week late-autumn route built around peak kōyō: four nights in Higashiyama Kyoto at Six Senses, two in the northern hills at Roku Kyoto, a night on the floating sandbar of Amanohashidate, a snow-crab night in the onsen town of Kinosaki, then ginkgo-gold Tokyo — four nights at Shinagawa, two in Shinjuku — woven through Michelin counters, temple foliage, Kabuki, Ghibli, and Kamakura's coast.See the route →Tokyo · Kyoto · Osaka — the classic circuitThe Golden Route of JapanJapan's essential first journey, end to end: the neon, depth, and restaurant culture of Tokyo, the temples and gardens of Kyoto with a day among Nara's deer, and the street-food roar of Osaka — strung together by the Tōkaidō Shinkansen. The single best two weeks' worth of Japan in nine nights, with every canonical must-see and the logistics worked out.See the route →