Three ways to cross Japan, planned day by day: Tokyo → Osaka (the classic), Tokyo → Kyushu (castles, the west, a volcano) and Tokyo → Hokkaido (snow country, seafood, the far end of the line). Then seven places most visitors never reach — a car-free onsen village, a monastery town where you sleep in a temple, a port of stairways and cats.
12 pages, 80 photographs. Every stop links to its guide on this site, and every price and opening hour was read from the official page — the same way every guide here is written. Enter your email and the PDF is yours right away; once a month we send the updated edition.
Tokyo to Osaka, Tokyo to Kyushu, Tokyo to Hokkaido — day by day — plus seven places most visitors never reach.
- 12 pages, 80 photographs, every stop linked to its guide
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What is inside
The three routes
- Route A · Tokyo → Osaka (7–10 days). Tokyo, Hakone, Kawaguchiko, Kyoto, Nara, Osaka. Detours: Kamakura, Kurama & Kibune, Koyasan, Ise.
- Route B · Tokyo → Kyushu (10–14 days). Tokyo, Kyoto, Himeji, Hiroshima, Miyajima, Fukuoka, Yufuin & Beppu, Kumamoto, Kagoshima. Detours: Kurashiki, Onomichi, Izumo, Nagasaki.
- Route C · Tokyo → Hokkaido (10–12 days). Tokyo, Nikko, Sendai, Ginzan Onsen, Akita, Hakodate, Sapporo, Niseko. Detours: Matsumoto, Takayama, Kanazawa.
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