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This Japan trip will start and finish in Osaka, this journey takes you through temples and gardens to get to the heart of Kukai temples trail.

With a mixture of free days and organised tours, you'll be able to see Japan your way. Start with a day in Osaka before you go to the pilgrimage town of Koyasan, where Kukai founded the Shingon sect of Buddhism that is prominent in Japan today.

You'll finish the trip in Kyoto with guided tours including comprehensive city tours and an opportunity to go off-the-beaten-track to the outskirts of the city, home to impressive tiered tea plantations. You'll meet one of the 300 families that farm on this land to sample some tea.

This Japanese trip is an in-depth experience to the heart of Japanese culture, a journey that takes you far from the tourist trail on a cultural and spiritual journey.

Over five days, you'll learn about the various processes behind making sake and the unique properties that make each style of sake different - and just how many ways there are! You'll also have time to explore the spiritual and religious side of Japan, following walking trails to temples and learning about this side of Japanese history.

A highlight of your trip will be an evening and morning in Ginzan Onsen - one of the most beautiful onsens in Japan! Relax and enjoy!

Take on Japan in your own way with this tour. Combining free days and organised tours is the best way to see this fascinating country, and that's what you are going to do!

Hop between old and new capitals using Japan's internationally renowned train services taking fascinating historical tours that will show you the best shrines, castles, palaces and temples while balancing things out by taking time to see the how modernity has swept across the country in a way that is uniquely Japanese!

Your Japan trip plan will start in Tokyo, taking you into the countryside for a taste of the onsen life in Izu before continuing to Kyoto and Osaka with time to visit Hiroshima, and of course the stunning Nara!

One of the four main islands of Japan, Shikoku is divided into four prefectures; over the course of five days, you'll encounter the wonderful sights of three of them on your private Japan guided tour.

Beginning and ending in the lively city of Osaka, your trip will see you travelling to Tokushima and experiencing the Naruto Whirlpools and the Edo-Period town of Wakimachi on the way. Moving on to the Iya Valley, you'll encounter one of Japan's 13 rare bridges, the 1100-year-old vine bridge, before visiting the thatched village of Ochiai and taking a boat cruise on the beautiful Yoshino River.

You'll try your hand at unique cultural crafts such as paper making and indigo dyeing, as well as taking part in an udon-making class where udon itself was born. You'll visit stunning temples very important to the Japanese pilgrimage route and also the famed Makino Botanical Garden filled with over 300,000 species of plants.

Arriving back in Osaka on your penultimate night, you'll have the chance to explore this city through its food and through its lively entertainment district, Dotonburi.