Tour Itinerary
Journey To Where It All Began
October 9-16, 2020 2020 Tour Cancelled due to Covid-19
*The tour itinerary is subject to change without notice based on local conditions at time of travel.
October 9, 2020 (Friday) Welcome to Japan Day 1
Arrival
- Independent arrival at Kansai Airport (KIX) with Private Transfer to hotel
- Accommodation: Hotel Monterey Kyoto
- Dinner as a group (included)
October 10, 2020 (Saturday) Classic Kyoto Day 2
Privately Guided Day by Public Transportation
- Breakfast in the hotel (included)
- Sanjusangendo (Temple of the Thousand Armed Kannon)
- Samurai Tea Ceremony at Bikouen Tea House
- Lunch at a local restaurant (included)
- Nishi Honganji (Jodo Pure Land Buddhist Temple)
- Nishiki Market (A traditional foods paradise)
- Evenings are free for your activities
October 11, 2020 (Sunday) Arashiyama – Kyoto Day 3
Privately Guided Day by Public Transportation
- Breakfast in the hotel (included)
- Tenryuji Temple (famous for its scenic garden and pond)
- Lunch at a local restaurant (included)
- Otagi Nenbutsuji Temple (with 1,200 cute moss-covered Buddha statues)
- Arashiyama Bamboo Forest (pictured at right)
- Evenings are free for your activities
October 12, 2020 (Monday) Classic Kyoto Day 4
Privately Guided Day by Public Transportation
- Breakfast in the hotel (included)
- Fushimi Inari-Taisha Shrine (a full mountain covered in picture perfect Tori gates)
- Manshuin Temple (with famed Zen garden and raked dry stone landscape)
- Lunch at a local restaurant (included)
- Enkoji Temple (famous for it’s “Running Dragon Garden”)
- Shisendo Temple (a smaller Zen temple also famous for it’s landscape)
- Evenings are free for your activities
October 13, 2020 (Tuesday) Kyoto – Kurama Day 5
Privately Guided Day
- Breakfast in the hotel (included)
- Take taxi to Demachiyanagi station, then Eizan line train to Kurama station
- Take hotel shuttle to Kurama Onsen
- Reiki treatments and orientation at the Onsen
- Lunch in the Yoshuji-Kurama Noodle Shop (self-pay – not included)
- Visit Kurama Mountain on foot
- Enjoy dinner at the Onsen at 7pm (included)
- Soaking in the Onsen’s healing thermal waters
October 14, 2020 (Wednesday) Kurama Day 6
Privately Guided Day
- Breakfast in the Onsen (included)
- Reiki Treatments at the Onsen in the relaxation room
- Visit Kurama Mountain on foot
- Descend to Kibune village
- Lunch in Kibune at various restaurants (self-pay – not included)
- Enjoy dinner at the Onsen at 7pm (included)
- Soaking in the Onsen or Reiki Treatments
October 15, 2020 (Thursday) Kurama Day 7
Privately Guided Day
- Breakfast in the Onsen (included)
- Reiki Treatments at the Onsen in the relaxation room
- Free day on Kurama Mountain
- Lunch Box arranged by Kurama Onsen (included)
- Enjoy dinner at the Onsen at 7pm (included)
- Soaking in the Onsen
October 16, 2020 (Friday) Sayonara Day 8
Departure
- Breakfast in the Onsen (included)
- Reiki Treatments at the Onsen in the relaxation room
- Independent Departure with Private Transfer to the Airport