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19-Nights Active Japan: Hokkaido Highlights & Okinawa Island Hopping - Active

Japan
19-Nights Active Japan: Hokkaido Highlights & Okinawa Island Hopping - Active
Japan
G Adventures
Vacation Offer ID 1569203
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Overview

G Adventures

Active Japan: Hokkaido Highlights & Okinawa Island Hopping
It’s not every day you can say you’ve travelled a country from top to bottom - but on this 20-day active adventure, you’ll explore Japan from its northernmost tip to its sunny southern islands. Kick things off in Kyoto and Tokyo, with city walks and scenic day hikes before heading way off the beaten path. Explore Hokkaido’s rugged national parks, then hop over to Okinawa’s tropical paradise for biking, hiking, and kayaking. Refuel with mouthwatering dishes unique to each region and unwind in traditional Japanese onsens. Who says you can’t have it all?

Highlights
Free time in Tokyo and a CEO led tour of the highlights, Cliffside and forest hikes through Shiretoko National Park. Hike, bike and kayak through the islands of Okinawa.

Accommodation
Hotel (18nts), Ryokan stay (1nt).

Group Leader
CEO (Chief Experience Officer) and local guides throughout.

Group Size Notes
Max 16, avg. 14

Meals Included
19 breakfasts, 2 lunches, 9 dinners

What's Included
Your Welcome Moment: Welcome Moment - Meet Your CEO and Group Your Local Living Moment: Ryokan Stay, Akan-ko Your Foodie Moment: Ramen Dinner in Asahikawa, Asahikawa. Asakusa Senso-ji Temple. Nakamise shopping street. Imperial Palace visit. Free time in Tokyo. Shiretoko Five Lake trek. Furepe waterfall hike. Primeval Forest hiking. Sulphur mountain visit. Lake Kussharo hot spring beach. Lake Mashu Observation Deck. Akan Ryokan stay. Asahikawa Ramen dinner. Asahidake Ropeway. Sugatami Pong hike. Free time in Sapporo. Nijo Market visit. Sapporo Beer Museum visit and beer tasting. Kurama to Kibune trek & shrine visits. Fushimi Inari Taisha hike. Okinawa Rail Observation & Ibe-dake Forest Trail Trek. Yasuda Sea Kayaking excursion. Traditional Sabani Boat tour. Taketomi island cycling excursion. Mangrove kayak and hike on Iriomote Island. Internal flights. All transportation to/from included activities.

Featured Destinations

Hokkaido
Okinawa

Okinawa

Okinawa, Japan, is a place of history, beauty and a friendly, laid-back lifestyle not seen elsewhere in the country. It is home to subtropical forests, coral reefs, sunken ships and ruins. It is a hidden paradise of warm, clear water waiting to be explored by both snorkelers and scuba divers of any level.

Off the main island of Okinawa, there are other historic dive sites to explore, as well as ecotours in the lush subtropical jungles and 15th-century castles.

Each season of the year brings special focus to nature in Okinawa Prefecture. During January and February, whale watching and cherry blossoms are spectacular; during the spring, marlin and sailfish abound; summer brings the coral blooms underwater; and fall sees the re-enactment parade and festival at Shurijo Castle.

Visitors should expect to spend at least four days there.

Destination Guide
Taketomi Island
Kunigami
Asahikawa
Akan National Park
Shiretoko National Park
Ishigaki

Ishigaki

Ishigaki Island is the main island of the Yaeyama Islands. The island offers visitors calm beaches, snorkeling, and diving in the surrounding coral reefs.  Visitors can also explore the jungle like scenery around the rivers by taking a river kayak tour. At Tamatorizaki Observation point the platform offers lovely views of the cape.  Ishigaki also has the highest mountain in the region, which afford visitors great hiking trails throughout the island's hilly interior.

Kyoto

Kyoto

If you can visit only one city in Japan, Kyoto is the one. This ancient city, 30 mi/50 km northeast of Osaka, was the capital of Japan for more than 1,000 years and still is considered the country's spiritual capital. Thousands of shrines and temples dot the city, including more than a dozen on the UNESCO World Heritage list. That list is far from all-inclusive, and many excellent places that might be the star attractions of other cities crowd the streets of Kyoto. It is a center of Japanese Zen and has several huge monastery complexes where serious students still sit in meditation.

Kyoto is also the nation's capital of traditional arts. Whether your interest be in pottery, textiles, dance, the tea ceremony or any of the other innumerable arts, Kyoto has excellent galleries, museums, shops and tea houses. Japanese people from the countryside and foreign students flock there to learn under the great masters. Much of what is considered Japanese haute cuisine was developed there too, as an offshoot of the tea ceremony.

Kyoto is Japan's heartland of history. With 1,300 years of tumultuous existence, the city's past intrudes upon the present day as in few other Japanese cities. In Gion, you can spot a geisha (or geiko, as they are called in Kyoto), one of the last hundred or so in Japan, slipping down a side-street to entertain rich guests with witty conversation, dance or music. A shopping arcade may suddenly fill with discordant clanging music as a shrine festival passes among the shoppers, or you may hear the long chant as Zen monks pass through the neighborhood, calling for alms.

Kyoto is an understated city that might disappoint visitors at first (at first glance, it is a large city with modern buildings that might not align with one's original perception); its charm lies in small details, pocket gardens, tiny traditional restaurants and refined artwork.

Destination Guide
Sapporo (Muroran)

Sapporo (Muroran)

Sapporo is one of Japan's newest and largest cities and is laid out in a grid pattern of uniform blocks similar to those of American cities. The Winter Olympics were held here in 1972, and its ski slopes continue to attract winter vacationers, as do the Sapporo Snow Festival held every February and the pleasantly cool temperatures in the summer. Muroran is located on the Oshima Peninsula in Iburi, and is the port for Sapporo, Hokkaido.
Destination Guide
Tokyo

Tokyo

Tokyo, Japan, presents a different view at every turn. It's one of the world's main economic centers and its most populous agglomeration. The business of Tokyo is business, but you can still find harmony and small-scale gardens on back streets. Around the corner from neon and concrete, you may find the bonsai-lined courtyard of a traditional inn.

Tokyo was nearly destroyed by bombs and fires during World War II, and by earthquakes at other times, but it has always rebuilt itself. As a result, there is little left of Old Japan in the city, but there's plenty of New Japan to take its place.

The streets are a confusing maze, so a map is essential. The transit system is excellent, however, and there are kobans (police boxes) throughout the metropolis, as well as a populace generally willing to answer questions.

Visitors to Tokyo represent both business and leisure travelers. And despite its past reputation, Tokyo is no longer fearsomely expensive. It's relatively easy to visit Tokyo on a budget.

Destination Guide

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While it is our intention to adhere to the route described below, there is a certain amount of flexibility built into the itinerary and on occasion it may be necessary, or desirable to make alterations. The itinerary is brief, as we never know exactly where our journey will take us. Due to our style of travel and the regions we visit, travel can be unpredictable. The Trip Details document is a general guide to the tour and region and any mention of specific destinations or wildlife is by no means a guarantee that they will be visited or encountered. Aboard expedition trips visits to research stations depend on final permission. Additionally, any travel times listed are approximations only and subject to vary due to local circumstances.
 

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