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Ready-to-use Japan itineraries

Your next escape
from Tokyo,
already planned.

Most Tokyo residents see less of Japan than tourists do. You live an hour from some of the best of it. These itineraries give you exactly where to go, delivered as a Smart Google Map you can filter by day and by type of place, ready on your phone before you leave. Here's an example.

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Routes available

4

Seasons covered

9+

Years exploring Japan

Day 1 - Sayama cemetery

Day 1 - Torii

Day 1 - Statue

Day 2 - Gyokusen-ji

Day 2 - Night koyo

Day 2 - Lunar stone maple park

8 routes already available

Day trips Back in Tokyo by dinner

☀️ Summer 🍂 Autumn 🚅 Train

Chiba prefecture

A preserved Edo-period merchant town an hour from Tokyo. Canals, wooden warehouses, and two summer festivals that draw crowds for good reason. Best visited at festival time or on a quiet autumn morning.

Long weekends 3 to 4 days, maximum experience

🍂 Autumn 🚗 Car

Saitama prefecture

Three days through Saitama's valleys and mountain towns. Autumn foliage at its most dramatic, traditional onsen villages, and the kind of countryside Tokyo residents forget exists an hour away.

🍂 Autumn 🚗 Car

Gunma prefecture

Gunma is one of Japan's great onsen prefectures and almost nobody goes. Three days through mountain hot springs, silk heritage towns, and gorges that turn gold in autumn.

🍂 Autumn 🚗 Car

Aichi and Gifu prefectures

Four days between two contrasting prefectures. Gifu's mountain villages and Nagoya's urban energy. The World Heritage gassho-zukuri farmhouses of Shirakawa-go, best seen under autumn leaves.

🍂 Autumn 🚗 Car

Wakayama prefecture

The Kii Peninsula is one of Japan's most sacred and undervisited regions. Four days along pilgrimage routes, cedar forests, and coastal onsen that open directly onto the Pacific.

🍂 Autumn 🚗 Car

Japan's northeast is the country's best-kept secret. Four days through samurai castle towns, remote onsen, and forests that produce the most intense autumn colours in the country.

Extended routes 9 days, one week off with two weekends

☀️ Summer 🚗 Car · Camper van

Hokkaido by Camper Van

Nine days across Japan's northernmost island in summer, when the rest of the country swelters. Lavender fields, volcanic lakes, fishing villages, and the kind of open road Japan isn't supposed to have.

🌸 Spring 🚗 Car · Camper van

Shikoku by Camper Van

Japan's forgotten island, circumnavigated by camper van in spring. Ancient pilgrimage trails, dramatic Pacific coastline, mountain gorges in fresh green, and almost no other tourists.

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