Discover Japan’s icons on a small-group rail journey from Tokyo to Kyoto via Tsumago, Kanazawa and Hiroshima, featuring hands-on sushi, Zen meditation, samurai arts and time in geisha districts.
  • Discover sushi-making at Tokyo’s Tsukiji outer market.
  • Walk Edo-period Tsumago’s lanes past farms and rice paddies.
  • Paint chopsticks with gold leaf at a Kanazawa craft studio.
  • Reflect at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and Museum.
  • Witness Miyajima’s floating torii at Itsukushima Shrine.
  • Visit World Heritage-listed Himeji Castle’s elegant white keep.
  • Walk beneath thousands of torii at Fushimi Inari Shrine.
  • Practice Zen meditation and calligraphy with a Kyoto monk.
A mix of Western style hotels (10 nights) and Japanese traditional inns (1 nights).



Japan is one of the most populous countries in the world and space is at a premium. Therefore, hotels rooms are small! Additionally, most Japanese hotels do not have designating non smoking rooms. Therefore, we ask hotels to deoderize rooms before check in. Please note rooms for couples usually still have two twin beds in Japan. Rooms with one large Queen or King bed are not common.