The Nature of JapanArt, History & Culture
Tour date: 19 May - 01 June, 2020
Days/Nights: 14 Day Fly/ Tour Tour Price: $9990 per person double/twin - Flights included $2300 private room supplement * IMPORTANT NOTICE. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic and Australian Government restrictions, this tour has been postponed until November 2021. Please contact us for up-to-date information. |
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Day by Day Itinerary:
Abbreviation: [B,L,D] Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
May is an ideal time to visit Japan. The transition between Spring and Summer offers a colourful and comfortable opportunity for us to explore the aesthetic relationship between Nature and Japanese Culture. The cherry blossoms will have given way to the wisteria, azaleas and vivid-pink shiba flowers; and the crowds of sakura-spring tourists will have dispersed.
Arriving in Tokyo, we are instantly immersed in the hectic, hyper-modern cosmos of 21st century Japan. In just a few hours, however, at the Meiji Shrine, we enter a 70 hectare evergreen forest, the spiritual heart of Tokyo and are reminded of the historic and ongoing connections between Nature and Japanese culture.
Our exploration of this fascinating relationship will take us from Tokyo to Kanazawa, from Kanazawa to Hiroshima, and finally to Kyoto. Along the way we visit art galleries and museums, both traditional and contemporary; gardens, large and small; wander streets, old and new, and sample some of the best Japanese food imaginable.
It is in Kyoto though, the once Shogunate capital of Japan, that we most clearly feel the strong multi-layered past permeating the present - Shinto Shrines and Buddhist Temples, immaculate Zen gardens and bamboo forests, streets lined with traditional wooden teahouses, apprentice geisha giggling behind windows in Gion and strains of Edith Piaf from a tiny teahouse along the
Philosopher’s Walk. Traditional, handcrafted ceramics, Samurai swords, hand-woven and embroidered kimonos, bullet trains, Diamaru, Gucci and Hello Kitty – this is the nature of Japan today.
Arriving in Tokyo, we are instantly immersed in the hectic, hyper-modern cosmos of 21st century Japan. In just a few hours, however, at the Meiji Shrine, we enter a 70 hectare evergreen forest, the spiritual heart of Tokyo and are reminded of the historic and ongoing connections between Nature and Japanese culture.
Our exploration of this fascinating relationship will take us from Tokyo to Kanazawa, from Kanazawa to Hiroshima, and finally to Kyoto. Along the way we visit art galleries and museums, both traditional and contemporary; gardens, large and small; wander streets, old and new, and sample some of the best Japanese food imaginable.
It is in Kyoto though, the once Shogunate capital of Japan, that we most clearly feel the strong multi-layered past permeating the present - Shinto Shrines and Buddhist Temples, immaculate Zen gardens and bamboo forests, streets lined with traditional wooden teahouses, apprentice geisha giggling behind windows in Gion and strains of Edith Piaf from a tiny teahouse along the
Philosopher’s Walk. Traditional, handcrafted ceramics, Samurai swords, hand-woven and embroidered kimonos, bullet trains, Diamaru, Gucci and Hello Kitty – this is the nature of Japan today.
Inclusions & Highlights
Small group journey limited to 15 participants! Contact Natalie to request your day-to-day itinerary.
Phone (02) 9299 5554, or email: natalie@absoluteluxury.travel *Terms and conditions apply. Prices are per person, twin share and subject to availability. Ask for more information.
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