June 9
Flight: Charlotte to Washington – 7:50 p.m.
Flight: Washington to London – 9:50 p.m.
June 10-15
London
Key Sights:
British Museum Parliament Tate Britain Trafalgar Square Speaker’s Corner St. Paul’s Cathedral
June 16
Flight into Tokyo
June 17-20
Tokyo
Key Sights:
Tsukiji fish market National sumo arena Edo-Tokyo Museum Asakusa Temples Meiji Shrine
June 21-22
Kamakura
Key Sights:
Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gu Shrine Kotokuin Myohonji Temple Zeniarai Benten Shrine Engakuji
June 23-24
Nara
Key Sights:
Yoshino Asuka Horyu-Ji Todai-ji Kokufu-ji Kasuma Taisha
June 25-27
Mount Koya
Key Sights:
Garan Kongobu-ji Mausoleum Oku-no-In Hiking
June 28-29
Osaka
Key Sights:
National Bunraku Theater Kaiyukan aquarium
June 30-July 3
Kyoto
Key Sights:
Imperial Palace Kinkaku-ji Ryoan-ji Ninnaji Daitokuji Myoshinji Zen meditation course
July 4
Himeji en route to Osaka
Key Sights:
Himeji Castle
July 5
Osaka
July 6
Kurashiki
Key Sights:
Bikan Historic Area Etsuji Temple Saisou-tei
July 7
Day trip to Soja
Key Sights:
Soja Shrine Iyama Houfukuji Temple Komori-zuka Burial Mound
July 8-9
Hiroshima
Key Sights:
Peace Park Chuo Park Hijiyama Park Fudoin Shukkeien
July 10-11
Miyajima Island
Key Sights:
Itsukushima Shrine Daisho-in Mt. Misen Momijidani Park
July 12
Iwakuni to Fukuoka
Key Sights:
Iwakuni Military Base
July 13-14
Nagasaki
Key Sights:
Clover Garden Sofuku-ji Site of the 1597 Christian persecution Atomic Bomb Museum
July 15
Kagoshima
Key Sights:
Sakurajima volcano Tsurumaru Castle Sengan’en Garden Nanshu Cemetery
July 16-19
Yakushima Island
Key Sights:
Yakusugi Jomonsugi Shiratani Unsuikyo forest Kaichuu onsen
July 20
Travel day to Moji
July 21
Travel day to Kiso-Fukushima
July 22
Kiso Valley
Key Sights:
Magome to Tsumago hike Mount Ontake
July 23
Matsumoto to Kamikochi
Key Sights:
Matsumoto Castle Ukiyo-e Museum Kappabashi Bridge
July 24-26
Backpacking in Kita Alps
Key Sights:
Yari-ga-take
July 27
Tsuruoka
Key Sights:
Chidokan Shonai Shrine Zenpoji Temple
July 28-29
Dewa Sanzan
Key Sights:
Mount Gassan Mount Hagurosan
July 30-August 1
Niigata
Key Sights:
Fuji Rock Music Festival Naeba Valley
August 2
Tokyo
August 3-4
Mount Fuji
August 5-11
Tokyo
Plane home leaves August 11 3:55 p.m.
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