Japan,
the first time.
the first time.
Pick a season and how long you have. These are the plans that simply work. Not offbeat at all. For that, there's Offbeat Japan.
The best all-round season. Leaves turn in the mountains in October and reach Kyoto in late November.
4 plans for 1 month in autumn
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The Big Loop
30 daysAll year For first-timers with time and village loversTokyo 5 → Nikko 1 → Hakone 1 → Matsumoto 1 → Takayama 2 → Shirakawa-go 1 → Kanazawa 2 → Kyoto 5 → Nara 1 → Koyasan 1 → Osaka 2 → Hiroshima 2 → Miyajima 1 → Fukuoka 1 → Nagasaki 2 → Kumamoto and Aso 2
South to the Sea
30 daysAutumn For beach and history loversTokyo 6 → Kyoto 6 → Hiroshima 2 → Fukuoka 2 → Nagasaki 2 → Kumamoto and Aso 2 → Kagoshima 3 → Okinawa 7
Slow Japan
30 daysAll year For slow travellers and city loversTokyo 8 → Hakone 2 → Kanazawa 3 → Kyoto 8 → Osaka 4 → Hiroshima 3 → Miyajima 2
Sapporo to Okinawa
30 daysAll year For island and food loversSapporo 3 → Hakodate 2 → Tokyo 5 → Kyoto 5 → Osaka 2 → Hiroshima 2 → Matsuyama 2 → Fukuoka 2 → Nagasaki 2 → Kagoshima 2 → Okinawa 3Map data © OpenStreetMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenFreeMap. Rail lines from Natural Earth.