Japan
Tours
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Explore offers a large variety of price-conscious tours all over Asia - active, short breaks and family adventures, including India and the Middle-East. |
Explore! offer two excellent tours around Japan in 2008. Click on the links for more information and prices:
The 'Shogun Trail', a 14 day tour for a of not only Japan's highlights but also some of the hidden charms unseen by most tourists. Among other activities are visits to temples and palaces in Tokyo, walking Hakone National Park, a trip to Mount Fuji, a walk along the ancient warrior's route the Tokaido Trail, a few days in spectacular Kyoto, Bullet train to Hiroshima and Nagasaki and finally exploring the Ninety Nine islands around Kyushu.
'In Fuji's Shadow' is another 14 day tour, naturally including Tokyo's sights but also giving you the opportunity to climb Mount Fuji for sunrise. The Bullet train to Kyoto gives plenty of time to explore not only the thousands of temples there but also stroll the geisha disrict of Gion a nearby ninja village and take a boat trip along the wild Hozugawa river.
Then it's back to the Izu peninsula for boating and beaches and finally a sight-seeing trip to Yokohama.
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Intrepid offer nine interesting, good value Japanese tours, including high culture, high sights, high walks and haiku! e.g. Brochure | Special Deals | Land of the Rising Sun |
Japan Active adventure:
14 days to study sumo wrestling in Tokyo, climb Mount Fuji if the weather is willing, bike along the lovely Izu coast, go sea kayaking in the Inland Sea and bike around Kyoto.
Lost Japan:
14 days to experience the culture-clash of Tokyo, explore the mass of elaborate temples in Kamakura, see the rural side of Japan in the Iya Valley, visit the Nagasaki bomb site, appreciate old-fashioned farming methods in Ojika and look for geishas and Wold Heritage Sites in Kyoto.
Japan Basix:
A 9 days high value, low cost tour of extraordinary urban Tokyo, green and templed Nikko, Hakone National Park's varied - and occasionally peculiar - charms and the classic temple cluster at Kamakura.
Highlights of Tokyo and Kyoto:
A pcked seven day tour of the highlights of Tokyo old and new, including Kabuki Theatre, hi- technology establishments, gorgeous Japanese gardens, Sumo lessons and plenty of opportunity to explore the neon nightlife.
Next a zoom past Mt Fuji on the bullet train to Kyoto, an exploration of a select few of Kyoto's thousands of temples, participating in a traditional swishy green tea ceremony, followed by a hunt for real geishas on an evening walk through Kyoto's Gion area.
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