Day1&2:
Tokyo (formerly Edo)
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Tokyo is capital of Japan and the world’s most populous metropolis. It consists of multiple cities, towns and villages west of city center. Tokyo also includes Izu and Ogasawara Islands. Tokyo hadtwo period, Edo (1600-1868) and Meiji (1868-1912) period (Thompson and Morris, 1996).
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Day3: Hakone
Hakone if
part of the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park, traveling to Hakone from Tokyo has
less than 100 kilometers. The famous of Hakone are hot springs, museums and the
view of Mt. Fuji. Visitors can enjoy a hot spring bath in ryokan or public bath
houses. In the Hakone region has more than 12 spring provide hot spring water
to ryokan and many bath houses.
Mount
Fuji is high 3776 meters, is an active volcano, which most recently erupted in
1707. It located on the border between Yamanashi and Shizuoka Prefectures.
Day4&5: Kyoto
Kyoto is the
city that the emperor’s residence form 794 until 1868. It has 1.4 million
people and a modern face now.
Visitors
can expend whole day in eastern Kyoto and Arashiyama. Eastern Kyoto includes
Kiyomizudera, Ginkakuji, Yasako Shrine, Heian Shrins and Nanzenji. Arashiyama
includes Tenryuji temple, the bamboo groves and the monkey park.
Day6: To Miyajima via Himeji
Traveling
Miyajima from Kyoto by shinkansen and visit Himeji Castle along the way. In
Miyajima, visitor can see the famous Shrine-Itsukushima Shrine, it’s main
building are built over water, it like the torii gate. Himeji Castle is the
good place to viewing cherry blossoms during April.
Day7&8: Hokkaido
(Sapporo)
Hokkaido
have almost all of the 87 hot spring occur within the outcrop range of Tertiary
and Quaternary volcanic rocks with which they are genetically related (Fukutomi
and Takaharu, 1966). Sapporo is the capital city of Hokkaido, the famous
attractions are Moerenuma Park, Mount Moiwa and Susukino.
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Day9:
Sapporo to Furano
Furano
famous by flower fields, there are different flower in different seasons, the
most of lavender usually blooming in late June and reaches it peak from around
mid July to early August. Furano also have other flowers blooming except the
lavender season. Those flowers include rape blossoms, poppies, lilies,
sunflowers, salvias and cosmos.
Day 10:
Return to Tokyo
Before go
back Tokyo, you can spend more time to view the flower fields, that would be
make you relax and happy.
