Tokyo · Hakone · Kyoto · Osaka · 7 nights / 8 days · luxury
Japan 7N Golden Route
The classic first Japan: Tokyo's electric districts, Fuji views from Hakone, Kyoto's shrines and bamboo, Osaka's street food — stitched together by bullet train, with the ₹500 visa handled properly.
Highlights
- ₹500 Japan visa (India's concessional rate) filed with a proper day-wise schedule
- Shinkansen bullet-train leg with reserved seats
- Hakone ropeway + Lake Ashi cruise with Fuji weather-luck
- Fushimi Inari's torii gates & Arashiyama bamboo grove
- JR-pass and IC-card guidance so the trains feel easy
Day-by-day itinerary
Day 1 — Tokyo arrival
Land, airport rail into the city, evening in Shinjuku's neon with dinner at an izakaya alley.
Day 2 — Tokyo classic
Senso-ji and Nakamise lane, Shibuya crossing, teamLab or Skytree by evening — your pick at booking.
Day 3 — Hakone & Fuji views
Romancecar to Hakone: ropeway over volcanic Owakudani, Lake Ashi pirate-ship cruise, onsen evening at the ryokan-style stay.
Day 4 — Bullet to Kyoto
Shinkansen west. Afternoon at Kiyomizu-dera and the Higashiyama lanes; kaiseki-lite dinner.
Day 5 — Kyoto icons
Fushimi Inari at opening hour (beat the crowds), Arashiyama bamboo and the monkey park, Gion at dusk.
Day 6 — Nara or Uji day
Deer bowing for crackers at Nara, or matcha's hometown Uji — both by easy rail.
Day 7 — Osaka
Osaka Castle by day, Dotonbori by night: takoyaki, the Glico runner, and the best street-food crawl in Asia.
Day 8 — Departure
Kansai airport transfer with a suitcase that mysteriously gained a kilo of KitKats.
Included
- 7 nights (3N Tokyo, 1N Hakone, 2N Kyoto, 1N Osaka) with breakfast
- Shinkansen Tokyo→Kyoto reserved seats + Hakone transport pass
- Airport transfers by rail with assistance at both ends
- Hakone ropeway + Lake Ashi cruise tickets
- Japan visa filing (₹500 consular fee shown separately) with the day-wise schedule drafted for you
Not included
- International flights
- Lunches and dinners
- City metro/IC-card top-ups (₹2,500–3,500 typical for the week)
- Travel insurance
- Anything not listed in inclusions
Best time to go: Late March–early April (sakura, book 4 months out) and November (autumn colour) are peak-peak; May and October are the smart-money months.
Things to carry
- · Passport with 2 blank pages; visa handled pre-departure
- · Very comfortable walking shoes — Japan is 15,000 steps a day
- · International-enabled card; Japan is tap-friendly now
- · Season layer: light for summer, proper coat December–February
Cancellation policy
30+ days before departure: full refund minus ₹2,500 per person processing fee.
15–29 days: 50% of the package cost is retained.
7–14 days: 75% is retained.
Under 7 days or no-show: non-refundable.
Hotel and airline penalties during peak or festival dates may be higher and are advised at booking. Wherever we can recover more from suppliers, we pass it back.
More questions, answered
- Is the visa really ₹500?
- Yes — India's concessional consular fee, preserved even after Japan's 2026 global fee increase. VFS service charges are extra and shown separately; the visa needs a day-wise itinerary, which we draft properly.
- Cherry-blossom season?
- Bookable and glorious — hotels and Shinkansen fill 3–4 months out and peak-season rates apply. Tell us early and we build the sakura version with realistic pricing.