Bestseller$3,490/ person
Japan · Small-group tour
Japan Alps & Hidden Villages
Japan · Tokyo to Kyoto
Overview
A walking journey through the Japan most visitors never see. Follow the Nakasendo, the old samurai road between Kyoto and Edo, through cedar forests and villages of dark timber inns.
You walk 10 to 16 km a day with light daypacks while your bags travel ahead by courier.
Why you will love it
The Nakasendo trail
Three days on the best-preserved stretch of the old post road.
Minshuku stays
Family-run inns with tatami rooms and home cooking.
Bags sent ahead
Walk with a daypack while luggage is couriered each day.
Kamikochi valley
Alpine meadows and rivers under the Hotaka peaks.
What’s included
- 8 nights in hotels and mountain inns
- 8 breakfasts, 5 dinners
- Luggage courier on walking days
- All rail and bus travel
- Walking leader and local guides
- Entrance to Matsumoto castle
Day-by-day itinerary
Welcome briefing and dinner near our hotel in Ueno.
Train to Matsumoto and its black castle, then on to Kamikochi.
A 14 km valley walk to Myojin pond and back beneath the Northern Alps.
Morning market, sake breweries and the old merchant quarter.
Walk Narai to Yabuhara, Magome to Tsumago and on to Nojiri, sleeping in minshuku each night.
Train to Kyoto for a gentle walk through Higashiyama and a farewell dinner.
The tour ends after breakfast in Kyoto.
Trip details
- Starts
- Tokyo
- Ends
- Kyoto
- Accommodation
- Hotels and traditional minshuku
- Meals
- 8 breakfasts, 5 dinners
- Group size
- 4 to 10 travellers
- Single supplement
- $760
- Deposit
- $500, refundable up to 60 days before departure
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