JAPAN: ADMIRE THE EARLY-BLOOMING SAKURA ROUTE

On arrival at Narita Airport, the group completes immigration procedures. Then the coach takes the group to Tokyo – the cultural, economic and political centre of Japan.
On the way, you have a light breakfast on the coach. The tour guide takes the group to explore Tokyo:
Asakusa Kannon Temple (also called Sensoji) – the oldest and most sacred temple in Tokyo, built specifically to worship the Bodhisattva Kannon. Here you will explore Nakamise-dori, the arcaded shopping street full of the essence of Japanese culture, the five-storey pagoda Gojunoto, Asakusa Shrine, the Nitenmon Gate, the Kannondo Hall, the Kaminarimon Thunder Gate…

(photos from outside).

You have breakfast and check out of the hotel.
The tour guide takes the group to continue exploring Japan:
Kawazu Cherry Blossom Festival is one of the most anticipated spring festivals in Japan. Featuring the early-blooming Kawazu-zakura variety, the festival takes place from early February, when more than 800 cherry trees bloom at once, creating a poetic scene with paths covered in flowers.

You have breakfast and check out of the hotel.
The group sets off for Kyoto – an ancient capital more than 1,000 years old. Kyoto is truly an old city, as it has no skyscrapers or modern buildings. Instead, the ancient capital preserves many historical and cultural relics, both material and spiritual, of the Japanese people:
Fushimi Inari Shrine (Thousand Torii Gates) – the head shrine among the 30,000 Inari-jinja shrines across Japan. The path leading up to the shrine is a network of trails stretching about 4 km, along which small shrines and many torii gates are scattered. Every year many people come here to pray for successful business and for their wishes to come true. To show gratitude when their prayers have been answered, they offer a torii gate to the shrine as a form of thanks. As a result, the number of torii gates has now reached about 10,000. This is also the location chosen as the setting for the Oscar-winning film “Memoirs of a Geisha”.

The group has breakfast at the hotel. After checking out, the tour guide takes the group sightseeing:
Osaka Castle – a famous tourist destination in Japan and the main symbol of Osaka city. Together with Nagoya Castle and Kumamoto Castle, Osaka Castle is praised as one of Japan's “Three Great Castles”. The castle sits within a vast park and has witnessed many historical events of the Land of the Rising Sun. Visitors stroll and admire its magnificent architecture and take photos of the castle grounds from outside.

(tower entrance fee not included)

You have a boxed breakfast and check out of the hotel.
The coach takes the group to the airport to check in for the flight back to HCMC.
Expected flight: VJ829 KIX – SGN 09:30 – 13:00
Arriving at Tan Son Nhat Airport, the sightseeing programme ends. We say goodbye and look forward to seeing you again on your upcoming journeys.
(The order of the programme may change depending on the actual situation of the tour, but all the sightseeing spots in the programme will still be included).
Note: The flowering and withering of blossoms, and whether the red leaves turn early or late, depend heavily on the weather conditions at the time of sightseeing; this is a force majeure situation. We hope you understand and are considerate.