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City walk JapanHida-Takayama: Old Town, Morning Markets and the Higashiyama Course
A day through a mountain town the modern world mostly passed by — dark wooden merchant streets, riverside markets at dawn, a shogun's government house, and a temple walk into the hills.
- Duration
- 1 days
- Distance
- 8 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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City walk JapanHimeji Castle: the White Heron and its garden
A gentle half-day around Japan's finest original castle — the straight approach, the great white keep, the defensive maze, Princess Sen's corridor, and the walled garden next door.
- Duration
- 1 days
- Distance
- 3 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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City walk JapanKamakura: The Great Buddha and the Daibutsu Hiking Trail
A day that starts at Japan's most famous bronze Buddha, climbs a wooded ridge trail behind the town, and comes down at a money-washing cave shrine and the old capital's greatest shrine.
- Duration
- 1 days
- Distance
- 7 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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City walk JapanKyoto Higashiyama: Kiyomizu-dera to the Philosopher's Path
The classic day through old Kyoto — hillside temples, preserved stone lanes, a geisha district and a canal-side walk under the cherry trees.
- Duration
- 1 days
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Trek JapanMount Fuji by the Yoshida Trail
Two days up Japan's sacred volcano on its most popular route, sleeping in a mountain hut near the eighth station to catch the goraiko sunrise from the 3,776 m summit.
- Duration
- 2 days
- Distance
- 15 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Trek JapanMount Kōya: Okunoin, the Garan and a night in a temple
A day on the sacred mountain of Shingon Buddhism — the great cemetery avenue to Kōbō Daishi's mausoleum, the founder's temple complex, the head temple, and a night in a monks' lodging.
- Duration
- 1 days
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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City walk JapanOld Tokyo on Foot: Asakusa Temples to Ueno Park
A single easy day linking Tokyo's oldest temple to its grandest park — from the lanterns of Sensō-ji through kitchen-town backstreets to the museums and cherry trees of Ueno.
- Duration
- 1 days
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Trek JapanThe Kumano Kodō Nakahechi — Takijiri-oji to Hongū Taisha
Four days on Japan's imperial pilgrimage road, over forested passes and through mountain villages, from the gateway shrine at Takijiri to the great torii at Oyunohara.
- Duration
- 4 days
- Distance
- 41 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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City walk JapanHiroshima: Peace Memorial Park to Miyajima
A day in two halves — the memorial park and museum in central Hiroshima in the morning, then a short ferry to the island of Itsukushima and its shrine in the afternoon.
- Duration
- 1 days
- Distance
- 8 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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City walk JapanKanazawa: Garden, Castle, Samurai and Geisha Districts
One easy day across the old castle town of the Maeda lords — a famous strolling garden, the castle it once belonged to, two preserved quarters and a covered market.
- Duration
- 1 days
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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City walk JapanNara Park: Kōfuku-ji to Naramachi
Japan's first permanent capital in a single day — a five-storied pagoda, hundreds of free-roaming deer, the Great Buddha in the world's great wooden hall, a lantern-lined shrine approach and an Edo-era merchant quarter.
- Duration
- 1 days
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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City walk JapanNikkō: Shrines of the Shogun and the Kegon Falls
A day pairing Japan's most ornate shrine complex — Ieyasu's mausoleum, the sleeping cat, the three wise monkeys — with a climb into the mountains to a 97-metre waterfall and a crater lake.
- Duration
- 1 days
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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City walk JapanOsaka: The Castle, Kuromon Market and Dōtonbori
A day across Osaka's south side — a shogun's castle in its moated park, a covered food market, an old amusement district under a steel tower, and the neon canal that never turns off.
- Duration
- 1 days
- Distance
- 7 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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City walk JapanThe Hakone Loop: switchback railway, volcano and the lake torii
Japan's most enjoyable day of public transport — a switchbacking mountain railway, a cable car, a ropeway over a steaming volcanic valley, a pirate ship across a caldera lake, and a red torii standing in the water with Fuji behind it.
- Duration
- 1 days
- Distance
- 5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy