Itineraries
Japan itineraries
The Sacred South: Market Tables, a Glass Furnace & Okinawa's Holiest Cape — 2 Days
The Yaeyama Islands: Ishigaki's Reefs & Taketomi's Buffalo-Cart Village — 2 Days
The Wild North: Churaumi's Whale Sharks, a Ridge-Top Castle & the Yanbaru Forest — 2 Days
The Onna Coast in Style: Halekulani, a Blue Grotto & Three of Japan's Best Resorts — 2 Days
The Ryukyu Capital: Shuri's Castle, a 19th-Century Distillery & the Clay Lanes of Tsuboya — 2 Days
Castle Towns & Stone Buddhas: Kitsuki & Usuki — 2 Days
The Sacred Kunisaki Peninsula: Hachiman's Head Shrine & Cliff Buddhas — 2 Days
The Carbonated Cure: Nagayu's Fizzing Springs & the Kuju Highlands — 2 Days
Yufuin Highland Retreat: Hot Springs, Art & Mt. Yufu — 2 Days
Beppu, Japan's Onsen Capital: The Hells, the Steam & the Sand — 2 Days
Sacred Yoshino: Shugendo Mountain Pilgrimage & Cherry Slopes — 2 Days
The Cradle of Japan: Asuka Tombs & Imai's Edo Town by Bike — 2 Days
Nara for the First Time: The Great Buddha, the Deer & Naramachi — 2 Days
Karuizawa Highland Retreat: Forests, Chapels & a Hoshinoya Stay — 2 Days
Hakuba in the Northern Alps: Alpine Luxury Above the Olympic Valley — 2 Days
Snow Monkeys, Shibu Onsen & Zenko-ji: Nagano's Sacred North — 2 Days
Walk the Old Nakasendo: Narai, Tsumago & the Magome Pass — 2 Days
Japan's Northern Alps for the First Time: Matsumoto Castle, Kamikochi & Azumino — 3 Days
Kyoto's Garden Canon: Kokedera's Moss, Katsura Villa, the Ryoan-ji Stones & Breakfast at a 400-Year-Old Kaiseki House — 2 Days
Second Trip to Kyoto? Go North: Kurama's Mountain Temple, Riverside Kaiseki in Kibune & the Valleys of Ohara — 2 Days
Kyoto Craft Connoisseur: Nishijin Looms, a 1560 Knife House & Throwing Kiyomizu-yaki at the Wheel — 3 Days
Kyoto Tea Pilgrimage: Make Wagashi with a Master, a Private Villa Ceremony & Grinding Your Own Uji Matcha — 2 Days
First Time in Kyoto, Done Properly: Empty Shrines at Dawn, Two-Star Kaiseki & a Real Maiko Evening — 3 Days
