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Tokyo is undoubtedly one of the world's most energetic cities. Check-in to your hotel, meet your fellow travellers and Tour Leader (or local guide), and savour your first taste of Japan's world-famous cuisine. Hotel: Akasaka Excel Hotel Tokyo (or similar)
Explore Japan's capital city utilising the super-efficient underground rail network. Visit the city's most famous sites including Meiji Jingu shrine and the Imperial Palace followed by a trip to Asakusa, one of Tokyo's liveliest districts, and home to some of the city...
Visit Hakone and see one of the world's most iconic natural sites – Mt Fuji. Explore this famous World Heritage listed natural region taking in waterfalls, Shinto Buddhist shrines and experience a ‘Panoramic Foot Bath'. Stay in a ryokan, a traditional Japanese guestho...
Travel by train to ancient Takayama, home to two of Japan's most famous festivals to see the magnificent wooden floats that are paraded through town during festival time. Stroll along Kami Sannomachi Street enjoying the immaculately-preserved traditional wooden houses. Sample some sake at one of the enticing sake rice wine breweries. Hotel: Best Western Hotel Takayama (or similar)
Enjoy a day at leisure exploring charming Takayama town at your own pace. You may choose to stroll around the Teramachi district, which is home to more conventional temples and shrines. Or visit Shirakawago, a World Heritage listed protected village famous for its stu...
Travel to Kyoto, Japan's cultural capital and the setting to more than 1,600 temples and shrines, the principal hub for Geisha, and the home of royal cuisine. Highlights of the day include Geisha spotting in Gion district and exploring the beautifully-preserved traditional buildings along Ponto-cho and Hanami-koji Lane. Hotel: Mitsui Garden Kyoto Shijo (or similar)
Continue your discoveries of Kyoto on foot visiting some of the city's most cherished and famous sites including Nijo Castle, Golden Pavilion, Japan's most famous rock garden and a temple nestled into the forest-clad side of Higashiyama Hill. Hotel: Mitsui Garden Kyoto Shijo (or similar)
Take the bullet train to the historic city of Hiroshima, infamously targeted in the world's first atomic bomb attack. A short ferry ride takes you past one of Japan's most iconic sites, the ‘floating' red torii gate near Miyajima Island. Explore central Hiroshima, the Peace Memorial Museum, Peace Memorial Park and A-Bomb Dome. Hotel: Mitsui Garden Kyoto Shijo (or similar)
Spend a free day exploring Kyoto at your own pace. This evening, enjoy a special kaiseki farewell dinner while being entertained by a Maiko. Hotel: Mitsui Garden Kyoto Shijo (or similar)
Transfer by private taxi to Kyoto Station for your onward journey. Tokyo Kyoto 10 Days
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The total tour cost includes the tour price (regular or promotional) and the compulsory local payment. The promotional price is subject to change. Check directly with the operator for the latest price offer. The tour operator requires you to pay only the tour price to purchase your travel. The compulsory local payment will be paid when you join the trip. All prices are based on double, twin or triple share occupancy. Solo passengers will be accommodated in a double, twin or triple room according to availability with a passenger(s) of the same gender. Single supplement only needs to be paid if the passenger does not want to share and requests their own room. Discounts can only be applied at the time of booking and cannot be added at a later date, regardless of any changes made to the original booking.
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Since 1993 we have been creating experience and culturally focused journeys across 11 destinations in Asia. Hear from our travelers, staff in Asia and learn more about our flexible small group tours and tailor-made vacation programs.
We have spent 21 years on the ground in Asia developing the best ways to discover the unique beauty, incredible people and delicious cuisine of this amazing place
A combination of Western tour leaders and local English-speaking guides on our Small Group Journeys
Our Small Group Journeys have a maximum of 16 travelers with an average of 12
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When you travel with us you’ll discover all the must-see attractions, while you weave your way through Asia as an insider. We’ll help you uncover genuine experiences and real insights into the places we travel that will leave you with stories worth telling for a lifetime.
Specialist Small Group Tours
Want to cook your way through Vietnam or follow the exotic Silk Road? Our Specialist Journeys offer a more intense focus on activities or places, giving you the opportunity to learn, explore and understand more. These journeys are perfect for travelers that are looking for a trip that goes beyond a vacation.
Cooking tours offer you the chance to discover, cook, and eat authentic regional cuisine, cycling tours let you hit the roads and really experience the sights and sounds around you, while other trips get off the beaten track for an in-depth exploration of some more remote areas, perfect for repeat visitors to a country, or those with a passion for a bit of adventure.
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Our Asia experts have designed tailor-made vacations in Asia for all kinds of groups from Vietnam veterans groups, incentive groups, conference groups, photography groups, cooking groups, cycling groups, shopping groups – the list goes on!
Want to combine a Beijing shopping trip with a trek along the Great Wall? Or cycle among the rice paddies and canals of Vietnam’s Mekong Delta? Perhaps you’re thinking about a luxury escape to Thailand’s beaches with a foodie tour of Bangkok thrown in? Our Asia specialists in Australia will work with you to plan the perfect tailor-made vacation for your group, no matter how big or small. And once you’re there, rest assured our on-the-ground support staff will be on hand to take care of you and make sure everything goes to plan.
Luxury Tours To Asia
Expect the very best when you choose our Gold Accommodation option. You get the same great Insider Journeys experience each day, with enhanced luxury and style at night, staying in some of Asia’s most impressive hotels. Not only do these hotels offer the ultimate in comfort and splendour, they are often a highlight of the trip themselves, with local or cultural significance.
Imagine waking up in the former palace of a maharaja, or falling asleep amid the grandeur of one of Indochina’s restored colonial hotels. Such moments become a reality when you choose one of our Gold Accommodation journeys, so go ahead and spoil yourself.
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Insider Journeys practices a thorough, realistic responsible travel policy. We believe that travel should entail an exchange of knowledge and perspectives, a sharing of wealth, and a genuine appreciation of Asia’s beautiful natural environments.
This philosophy underpins the heart and soul of our style of travel. It drives all that we strive to deliver to our travelers, and shapes the contact we have with our supplier colleagues in Asia. We recognize that poorly planned itineraries or poorly informed tourists contribute less to cross-cultural understanding and less to the livelihoods of local people. We also recognize that we largely work in a developing part of the world.
Political and social factors sometimes impede the short term implementation of our responsible travel initiatives, so we do not make blanket, unrealistic statements about the achievability of our goals - doing so would make us irresponsible. We aspire to short or medium-term implementation of our policies where this is realistic and to incremental change where there are constraints of a governmental or cultural nature.
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