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Kyoto in Slow Light
Country
Japan
Duration
10 days
Best season
Oct – Dec
Pace
Gentle
Price
From $9,800
(01) The journey
Temples before the crowds, a ryokan with its own garden, and an evening with a seventh-generation tea master.
(02) Day by day
Days 1–4 · Higashiyama
Stay in a restored machiya and walk the old lanes at dawn, when the city still belongs to the people who live there.
Days 5–7 · Mountains and onsen
Take the train into the Japanese Alps to a ryokan in Kamikochi, where the river runs past your window.
Days 8–10 · Craft and tea
Private visits to a lacquer studio, an indigo dyer and a tea ceremony in a house that rarely receives guests.
This is a starting point, not a package.
Every day above can move, stretch or disappear.