Japan Uncovered

Eleven days across Japan, from Tokyo's neon streets to Osaka's food-stall chaos, with plenty of room to see how tradition and modern life sit side by side.

You start in Tokyo learning to make sushi and wandering the city at night, then slow right down in Hakone with onsen baths and Mount Fuji views. Kyoto brings calligraphy, a tea ceremony and the quiet lanes of Gion, before the bullet train carries you on to Hiroshima, Miyajima, Okayama and Osaka.

It's a broad sweep of the country rather than a deep stay in any one place, good for a first proper look at Japan that mixes history, food and cities without rushing through any single stop too fast.

What you'll do

• Learn sushi-making in Tokyo
• Soak in an onsen with Mount Fuji views from Hakone
• Try calligraphy and a tea ceremony in Kyoto
• Walk the geisha lanes of Gion
• Visit the Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima and the island of Miyajima
• Wander Osaka's Dotonbori district