Japan Tour Package: 8 Days Tokyo, Hakone & Kyoto

Highlights

• Shibuya, teamLab & Asakusa in Tokyo
• Mt Fuji + Hakone onsen night
• Fushimi Inari & Arashiyama bamboo, Kyoto
• Bullet-train JR Pass included
• Nara deer-park day trip

Is it right for you?

Seniors

Possible for seniors, with care: An onsen night and multiple temple visits are gentle, but the Fushimi Inari and Arashiyama mornings involve sustained walking on slopes and stairs

Getting around

Some walking

From our own trip notes. Tell your captain about anyone's mobility, age or food needs and we confirm the details for your dates.

The story

Your journey outline

Each stage can cover one or more days. Tell us what you would change; your final itinerary is agreed before booking.

1. Stage 01 Tokyo

   Land in Tokyo and go straight into it. Shinjuku at night is neon on eight storeys of building, the Omoide Yokocho alleys are three feet wide and full of grill smoke, and the whole thing is safe enough to wander jet-lagged at eleven at night. Ramen, then sleep.

2. Stage 02 Tokyo Deep

   teamLab in the morning, a digital art museum you walk through barefoot in ankle-deep water with projections moving around you. Asakusa in the afternoon for Senso-ji, the city's oldest temple, approached down the Nakamise shopping street. Then Shibuya, and the crossing, best watched from above.

3. Stage 03 Hakone

   Out to Hakone in the mountains. The circuit runs by switchback train, cable car and ropeway over the sulphur vents at Owakudani, where they boil eggs in the hot springs and the shells turn black, then a boat across Lake Ashi. Fuji is visible on a clear day. The night is a ryokan with an onsen.

4. Stage 04 To Kyoto

   The Shinkansen to Kyoto, about two and a quarter hours, with Fuji out of the right-hand side if the weather has held. In Kyoto the evening is Gion, the old teahouse district of wooden machiya fronts and lanterns, where geiko and maiko still walk to appointments at dusk.

5. Stage 05 Kyoto Temples

   Fushimi Inari at first light, which is the only time you get the torii tunnel to yourself: around ten thousand vermilion gates climbing the hillside, and most visitors turn back after fifteen minutes. Kiyomizu-dera afterwards, with its wooden stage out over the hillside and the lanes below it.

6. Stage 06 Arashiyama

   The bamboo grove at Arashiyama early, then the Iwatayama monkey park up the hill for the view back over Kyoto. In the afternoon, Nara: Todai-ji holds a fifteen-metre bronze Buddha, and the deer in the park have learned to bow for biscuits, which is both charming and slightly predatory.

7. Stage 07 Osaka Day

   Osaka for the day, which is the city Japan goes to in order to eat. Dotonbori is the canal strip with the running-man sign, takoyaki stands and queues outside places with no English menu and no need for one. The castle in the afternoon if you want something built before 1990.

8. Stage 08 The Return

   Fly home from Kansai. Eight days, two cities, one mountain, and a rail pass that will have made you permanently impatient with trains in every other country on earth.

Know before you go

• Japan requires a visa for Indian passport holders; residents of India can apply for a tourist eVisa through an accredited agency, and processing times vary — we file your documents as early as possible
• GST and TCS are shown in your written quote
• A JR Pass is included where the itinerary needs it — carry your passport to activate
• Cash still rules small shops; IC transit cards are issued on arrival

Official visa information: Embassy of Japan in India: visa guidance. Requirements depend on your passport and route.

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Why book with Travelers Clan

• Your own itinerary. This is a starting point — we agree your route and pace before booking.
• Paperwork guidance. Visa requirements and applicable taxes confirmed in your quote.
• Clear payment terms. Deposit and cancellation conditions set out before payment.
• Know your support. Your final plan confirms local contacts and any guide or trip-captain services.