09:00 - In the morning the Guide will meet you in the hotel lobby and you will go on an excursion to the city Kamakura!
Located on the picturesque coast The Pacific Kamakura is the oldest capital of Japan, it is a small town with a large number of ancient Buddhist temples, quiet and picturesque. Kamakura is one of the oldest cities in Japan, founded in 1192.
10:00 – Daibudu statue - Great Buddha
This Buddha statue is the second largest in Japan (the first is in Nara). The height of the statue is 11.4 m, weight - 93 tons. Buddha sits under open air, green hills create a wonderful backdrop. The statue was cast in 1252. The statue was probably made by Ono Goryomon or Tanshi Hisatomo, the leading Japanese bronze sculptors of the time. At a certain period of time, the statue was gilded. There are still traces of gilding near the ears of the statue.
11:00 – Hasedera temple
The temple was built in 736. You will be amazed by the statue of the 11-head goddess Kannon, which is 9.5 meters high. Another attraction of the temple is a giant bell, cast in 1264 - the oldest in Kamakura. It has been declared Japan's most important cultural property. You will completely immerse yourself in the atmosphere of the 12th century, feel like a part of the great past
13:00 – Lunch at a restaurant (Japanese cuisine).
14:00 –Hachimangu temple
Hachimangu Shrine is an important shrine to Kamakura. It was founded in 1063 by representatives of the Minamoto family. The temple is dedicated to the god of war, as well as to the memory of the legendary emperor Odzin Hachiman. Here the Yoritomo warriors practiced yabusame - archery from a horse. In order to get to the temple, you need to walk from the embankment through the entire city center along a long, wide passage with several tori gates along the way. The main hall stands on a terrace at the top of a wide staircase. The main hall houses the temple itself and the museum, where shrines such as swords, masks and documents are kept.
15:00 – Departure to Yokohama.
Yokohama is a metropolis and the largest port in Japan, be prepared for the reality to surpass your wildest expectations.
16:00 –Tower Landmark Tower
Tallest building in Yokohama and the third tallest structure in Japan. The height of the building is 296.3 m. The construction of the building was completed in 1993. The skyscraper has the highest observation deck in the country.
17:00 – Minato Mirai Future Port
The most famous area "Minato Mirai" is located in the central part of Yokohama and translated from Japanese means "port of the future". There are multi-storey office buildings, luxury hotels, shopping centers, restaurants, conference rooms, exhibition complexes.
19:00 - Return to the hotel in Tokyo.
* Overnight at a 3-star hotel in Tokyo “Toyoko Inn Tokyo Shinagawa-eki Konan-guchi Tennozu”.
Tokyo
Arrive Tokyo at Narita or Haneda airport. Meeting with a Japanese driver at the airport and transfer to the hotel by shuttle bus with other tourists (without a guide). Self check-in at the hotel of the chosen category. Please note that most Japanese hotels check in after 15:00/16:00. If you wish, you can order an early check-in for a fee, but this must be done in advance, at the stage of booking the tour.
Optional tour (for tourists arriving in Tokyo no later than 13:00) - an evening tour of Tokyo with a Russian-speaking guide (estimated time of the excursion is from 17:00 to 20:00). The cost of the excursion is $ 165 / person.
In the evening, when the lights are on, the city is transformed. In late March - early April, you can admire a rare sight: cherry blossom avenues in bloom in the light of the evening illumination. You will visit the world famous luxury shopping area Ginza, cross Tokyo Bay on the picturesque Rainbow Bridge, visit artificial island Odaiba, with stunning views of Tokyo and the Bay, and see the recognized symbol of the city - Tokyo Tower. You will also visit the Shibuya area, where the famous monument to the faithful dog Hachiko is located and the busiest intersection in the world - about 3,000 people cross it simultaneously during rush hours.
Day 2
Tokyo, Kamakura
Breakfast in the hotel. Excursion to Kamakura with Russian speaking guide.
The ancient city of Kamakura, located on the ocean coast, is the first capital of Japan's military rulers, the shoguns, a city of ancient temples, sanctuaries, magnificent gardens, picturesque hills and coastlines.
Visit Shinto Tsurugaoka Hachimangu shrine- the main Shinto shrine of the city, built in 1063 and dedicated to the patron deity of the samurai class, which for a long time was the center of not only the spiritual, but also the political life of the region. The path to the temple is adorned with a graceful cherry blossom alley, and delicate fragile flowers provide an amazing contrast to the solid architecture. temple complex... Dinner.
Next, a visit awaits you Hasedera Buddhist Temple, the main relic of which is a 9-meter wooden statue of the Bodhisattva of Mercy Kannon, created in the 8th century. The temple is also famous for its picturesque gardens and a wonderful panorama of the city and the coast that opens from here.
And, of course, one cannot ignore the main symbol of Kamakura - the 11-meter a bronze statue of the Great Buddha at the Kotokuin temple... The majestic statue, cast by the masters of the past back in 1252, sits right in the open air, as if from century to century patiently watching the life passing at its foot.
Return to your hotel in Tokyo.
Day 3
Tokyo, Osaka
Breakfast in the hotel. Sightseeing tour in Tokyo with a Russian-speaking guide.
The tour will begin with a walk around Shinjuku Gyoen Park... It was founded in 1906 and originally belonged to the imperial family, but now it is one of the most famous parks in Tokyo and one of the most popular places for admiring sakura. More than a thousand sakura trees of 65 varieties grow in Shinjuku Gyoen, some of which bloom in early February, while others delight visitors at the end of April.
Then you will visit the observation deck of the world's tallest television tower - SkyTree(634 meters), from where you can admire the breathtaking panoramas of Tokyo from a height of 350 meters.
Having moved to Asakusa area- one of the few places where the spirit of old Tokyo has been preserved - you will visit the oldest Buddhist temple in Tokyo Sensoji and walk along the Nakamise shopping street, where the largest number of souvenir shops in Tokyo is located.
At the end of the excursion you will visit area near Imperial Palace - here since 1869 is the official residence of the Emperors of Japan, the oldest ruling dynasty in the world.
Transfer to the railway station. Transfer to Osaka by Shinkansen high-speed train. Meeting with the coordinator at the Shin-Osaka station near the car. Accommodation in a hotel of the chosen category.
Day 4
Osaka, Kyoto
Breakfast in the hotel. Tour of Kyoto with Russian speaking guide.
Kyoto, which was the imperial capital of Japan for more than a thousand years, is still considered the main center of the country's traditional culture. The bombing of World War II did not touch Kyoto, therefore it is here that the richest cultural and historical heritage has been preserved, many of which are included in the UNESCO List.
Inspection of one of the main attractions of Kyoto - the world famous Of the Golden Pavilion(Kinkakuji) - a temple clad in gold, resting over the waters of the Lake of Mirror.
Further transfer and visit to the famous philosophical garden of 15 stones at the Zen Buddhist temple Ryoanji, in which the stones are arranged in such a way that wherever you look at the garden, one of the stones invariably escapes the eye. Dinner.
Visit Temple of pure water(Kiyomizu), named after the waterfall inside the temple itself. The temple is located on a hill, and from its observation deck a wonderful panorama of Kyoto opens.
Walking the Geisha Quarter of Gion... Return to your hotel in Osaka.
Day 5
Osaka, about. Itsukushima (Miyajima), Hiroshima, Okayama, Kaike
Breakfast in the hotel. Excursion to Hiroshima and Miyajima with a Russian-speaking guide by public transport.
One of the most famous landscapes in Japan is the bright red gate of a Shinto shrine, right in the sea. Sacred island of Miyajima- this is the place where you can see the famous landscape with your own eyes. The gates themselves belong to the ancient shinto shrine Itsukushima ( World heritage UNESCO). The island's green mountains, the surrounding sea and the temple built over 1400 years ago, merge in an amazing harmony so characteristic of traditional Japanese architecture. Deer (sacred animals according to Japanese beliefs) roam the streets freely - they are not at all afraid of people and, on the contrary, show an active interest in guests.
Dinner. The tour will end with a visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.
Transfer by train to Ionago station with a change in Okayama (without a guide). Meeting at the platform near the coach with the coordinator and transfer to the hotel of the selected category, located in the resort area of Kaike. Accommodation in a traditional hotel with natural mineral spring, on the shore Sea of Japan. Free time, rest on the springs.
Day 6
Kaike
Breakfast in the hotel. Free time at the hot springs. We recommend booking excursions for an additional fee.
Optional tour - excursion to the samurai city of Matsue and the park of flowers and birds (including lunch).
Matsue Castle, around which a samurai city once grew up, was built in 1611. This is one of twelve castles in Japan that have survived to this day in their original form. The main tower of the castle, made of wood, has survived, unlike many castles in Japan, which were destroyed by fires, earthquakes or during the massive destruction of castles in the 19th century. You can go inside the castle, get acquainted with the collection of samurai armor and weapons and admire the view of the city from its main tower... Dinner.
You will also visit the Vogel Flower and Bird Park. A park located on the green hills by the lake, all year round buried in flowers. It is also famous for its rich collection of birds: more than 90 species of birds from all over the world, from tropical hornbills to penguins. You can feed toucans, learn a lot about night owl birds and watch shows with feathered artists.
Day 7
Kaike, Okayama, Kurashiki, Tokyo
Breakfast. Check out from the hotel, transfer to the station with the coordinator. Independent train transfer to Okayama station, meeting with the guide on the platform.
Excursion to Okayama and Kurashiki with Russian speaking guide.
The tour begins with a visit to the famous "Castle of the Raven" in Okayama, which got its name from the black color of the outer walls, reminiscent of the plumage of a raven. Then you visit Koraku-en garden, which is considered one of the three great gardens in Japan. Dinner.
Moving to Kurashiki town, walking around the old quarter on the bank of the canal, along which there are many ancient warehouses. Weeping willow trees along the canal give the quarter a special beauty. Then you will visit the family house of the Ohashi family, which was built in 1796. A traditional house with tatami rooms, graceful sliding partitions and hanging scrolls, built in a style typical of the wealthy Kurashiki merchants.
Transfer to Tokyo by high-speed train Shinkansen. Meeting with the coordinator at the Tokyo station by the carriage. Accommodation in a hotel of the chosen category.
Day 8
Tokyo, Russia
Breakfast. Self checkout from the hotel. Meeting with a Japanese driver in the hotel lobby. Transfer to Narita / Haneda Airport by shuttle bus with other tourists (no guide). Departure to Russia.
Was with Native in Japan. The guys combined the advantages of traveling as a group and an individual approach: the route is thought out, but there is no strict attachment🥴Org. issues have been resolved, the most interesting objects and good hotels have been selected выбCommunication is fun and friendly! 😃And photo support is a super bonus! You can oversleep the whole trip and then see EVERYTHING from the photo 👀😂 A huge amount beautiful photos from the trip! You can go with the guys even to the ends of the world! 👍
Olga Sedykh
Our journey through Iceland ends today. Awesome Kirill Balakhtin and Ulyana Balakhtina(together they Native Travel Agency) dragged us around the entire island. We saw melting glaciers and nesting plump puffins, cute horses with bangs, piercing blue icebergs and gloomy waterfalls, throwing up clouds of water dust with a roar. We choked on pickled shark meat and looked into the teeth of killer whales. We warmed ourselves up with caraway aquavit and Reykjavik gin (it tastes like one in one cucumber lotion of our childhood).
The guys have a very serious approach to every detail in every trip.
Alexander Gavrilov
While dreams were dreaming, Kirill and his Native Travel team decided to arrange a chamber tour (8 people) in a minibus around Iceland. To dispel doubts, Kir without hesitation pronounced a couple of names of glaciers in Russian, showed in the photos eco-houses with thermal jacuzzis, in which we will live, and promised to bake us waffles in the morning. In general, I sold it :))
After the fact, I can honestly say that this was one of the highlights of my travels.
Nastya Kocheva
I live by the principle never to travel to the same countries, which is why it was important for me to see as many cities as possible in one trip and beautiful places, and Kirill managed to organize such a tour from the USA !!! In 2 weeks we traveled almost all over America, so many emotions, the impression was that we had been there for a month. We had a small girl group and thanks to Kirill for enduring our whims, adjusting to our desires, he is a universal person, and a guide and driver and photographer, and a cook and just a cheerful guy! Personally, I felt very comfortable! I am delighted with this trip, it is pointless to tell, you have to see it, just go and you will not regret 100%!
Natalia Kultau
I have long dreamed of visiting Iceland. I behaved very well and my dream came true :)
Iceland is very small on the map, but huge in number scenic spots... Each location is reloaded by appearance from the time of year and time of day. My guide to this country was the Native Travel travel team, the main advantage of which was the flexibility between the desire to show us everything and our ability to see everything.
Thank you guys for your patience, professional photography, delicious breakfasts and cold beer.
Pavel Chudaev
I went with Kirill to Iceland, everything was super. All organizational issues were solved by Kirill, and we just looked at the beauty and had a rest. Recommend.
Dmitry Voskresensky
Nice and thoughtful guys! We went with them to Japan.
Japan was one of those countries where I wanted to go for a long time .... and here Native!) Everything is very worthy, informational and interesting! It’s not with the crowd, hanging out on the bus.
Stas Cherkasov
Traveling to Iceland with Native Travel was incredible. If I believed that the world has a Creator, I would say that he collected all the most beautiful things in the world in Iceland. Fantastic landscapes that change every five minutes. Red mountains, black mountains, green mountains, colorful mountains. Lava fields covered with green and gray moss. Clouds that you can touch with your hand. Rainbows, incredible amount rainbows. Volcanoes, volcanoes, volcanoes. Waterfalls. Lakes. Geysers. Fumaroles. Blue icebergs... White glaciers. Lighthouses. Sheep on the tops of volcanoes. Shaggy horses. Seals. Puffin birds. Seagulls, seagulls, seagulls. WHALES. Sun, rain, wind, fog (and so on in a circle). We are asked who we went with. Cyril is a man in love with Iceland. Who knows how to get to places that others have never heard of. Great driver. An amazing chef who, against the backdrop of mountains and oceans on the grill, creates culinary wonders. He knows which restaurant will serve the most delicious lobsters that were still swimming in the ocean in the morning, and at which gas station near Reykjavik you can eat the most delicious portion of fish & chips in the country. Reliable, calm, with a great sense of humor. Those ten days with him in Iceland were a real miracle. Thanks to Kirill and his agency!
Ekaterina Gushchina
Traveled around Iceland with NativeTravel at the end of August 2019. The charge still holds, which is great. I began to think why you are recovering from one trip, and from another - it would be better not to go. Soulfulness, soulfulness! And sincerity is only the people around you during your vacation. So this soulfulness is becoming a determining factor in the evolution of the modern tourism industry. All inclusive- died for me back in the mid-2000s, independent trips often involve a number of risks, when you go to a new place, you don't know anything and you strain to find your city, your restaurant, your beach. And you need to visit one place several times for it to open into a pure kaif. So it would have been with Iceland, if not for the soulfulness of a person and a steamer, which provided a balance between atmosphere, comfort, game, fun, serious topics of conversation and knowledge of the country in general and the back streets in particular. I'm glad I discovered the format personal tours in those places that were postponed for a long time because of their "fat content". Not to be an aborigine, but to create the effect of a complete sense of nativeness in another country - that's what it is.
Let's go further ...
Alexey Pavlov
If you are in search of an indescribable spectacle of nature and want to collect the best yet unspoiled treasures of our planet: lunar landscapes, ice lagoons, unique mosses, deserts, black sand beaches, volcanoes, glaciers, waterfalls, fjords, then you need to go a) to Iceland; b) with the Native Travel team. My trip can be called accidental, in the end - the best. I will definitely never forget the magnificent combination of cosmic nature with a team of sincere people and delicious food! Thanks to Kirill for the PP food 24 hours a day, thanks to Ulyana for a relaxed photo session 24 hours a day. Thanks to the whole group for new emotions and laughter from the heart. The last time I laughed like that was probably 5 years ago. I will always remember a photo session in a jacuzzi at sunset. I plan to go again !!!
Victoria Chudaeva
I am very glad that we went with Kirill (Native Travel company) to Iceland. The trip exceeded all expectations. We ourselves would not have seen half of all the beauty. Kirill treats work with soul, tries to make the trip comfortable and informative to the maximum, takes into account all wishes both on the route and on the daily routine and food. While we were soaking in the jacuzzi, Kirill prepared delicious dinners for us, the products for which he had bought beforehand. And Ulyana also took beautiful photos throughout the trip. Guys, thank you very much! I want to go with you to America and Japan)))
Anna Zhavoronkova
Very nice people, a perfectly thought out route, incredible beauty. The main journey of my entire life.
Oleg Paschenko
A cool "turnkey" travel solution with adequate people, cool locations and a photographer. Always an adequate response to wishes / suggestions. Bonus - sincerity and cool evenings with dinner and wine)
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Natalia Nikitina
These days you can walk around Tokyo on your own, without haste, or take additional excursions for a fee according to your taste: museums, shopping, restaurants, pedestrian streets - we will show you what you might like!
The Shibuya Crossroads, the upmarket shopping area and Ginza shops, or maybe the area with the Shinjuku skyscrapers: in the evening and during the day, this area will give you a good idea of the real life of Tokyo in all its colors: from dating houses and bars in the Kabukichou quarter to bars, designed for three visitors and luxury department stores. In the Harajuku quarter, you can often be surprised by the creativity and courage of young guys and girls from Japan.
You can take a full day excursion to Kamakura and Yokohama, to the city of the samurai Nikko and ride a pirate ship overlooking Fuji. Go for a full day to Hakone Resort with hot springs and views of Mount Fujiyama.
For nature lovers: Tokyo's many cherry blossom parks. For lovers of gastronomy - a gastronomic walk from different regions.
And in the evening, you can look into the Lane of Memories or one of the izakaya - a kind of tavern that serves alcoholic drinks in combination with delicious snacks at a reasonable price. Izakaya are popular not only among the Japanese themselves, but also among tourists.
