Drive your own car from Tokyo to Osaka. We can help with ideas for the itinerary. Otherwise, just enjoy the freedom.
Make a road trip from Tokyo to Osaka. After two nights in Tokyo, you can set the course you want for the next twelve days. Between Tokyo and Osaka there are a lot of fantastic experiences such as the cultural capital Kyoto, hiking on Fuji Mountain, remarkable snow monkeys, Hiroshima’s shaky history and the fantastic food culture in Osaka. Everywhere you will experience the fascinating Japanese culture and the friendly and calm mind of the locals that you will take to your heart. With a car you can easily get around the most touristy areas and with a GPS you can easily find your way. The only thing you need to remember is that Japan has left-hand traffic and that you have your international driving license from home.
We are happy to help you with ideas and suggestions – we can also book accommodation and excursions so everything is booked and ready for all or parts of the trip. See agriculture and fishing in Japan on smber.
Day 1: Departure Scandinavia
Departure from Scandinavia to Japan with arrival the next day. Depending on the airline, one to two stopovers occur on the way.
Day 2: Arrival, Tokyo
Today you arrive in Tokyo and take you to your hotel on your own. Over the next two days, you will have the opportunity to explore this high-energy metropolis. Tokyo is, if anything, a city of contrasts. The city offers a huge and vibrant eldorado of shops selling everything from traditional and exquisite crafts to uniquely designed fashion items, all varieties and price ranges of electronics, record stores and comic books in batches and minutes and more or less cheap (or not at all cheap) gadgets that you did not know existed and you suddenly just have to get yourself. The city offers an infinite number of restaurants that serve everything from noodle soup to French five-course menus, here are at least as many arcades and even more karaoke bars. An exciting adventure in Tokyo is to take the subway around to the various shopping areas such as the electronics center Akihabara with electronics in twelve floors, or Ikebukero, where there is a manga shop on every street corner or Shinjuku and Harajuku, with all kinds of youth culture and fashion in full bloom . Such a tour provides a wonderful and fascinating insight into the ultra-modern, but at the same time very traditional culture in Tokyo. The more traditional part of Tokyo is located in Asakusa around the Asakusa Temple. A visit here is highly recommended. The temple and the surrounding park are incredibly beautiful, but you should not expect it to be either calm or quiet because there are always people in Tokyo – everywhere. with all kinds of youth culture and fashion in full bloom. Such a tour provides a wonderful and fascinating insight into the ultra-modern, but at the same time very traditional culture in Tokyo. The more traditional part of Tokyo is located in Asakusa around the Asakusa Temple. A visit here is highly recommended. The temple and the surrounding park are incredibly beautiful, but you should not expect it to be either calm or quiet because there are always people in Tokyo – everywhere. with all kinds of youth culture and fashion in full bloom. Such a tour provides a wonderful and fascinating insight into the ultra-modern, but at the same time very traditional culture in Tokyo. The more traditional part of Tokyo is located in Asakusa around the Asakusa Temple. A visit here is highly recommended. The temple and the surrounding park are incredibly beautiful, but you should not expect it to be either calm or quiet because there are always people in Tokyo – everywhere.
Day 3: Discover Tokyo on your own
If you are alert in the morning (or not quite in phase with your jet lag) and crave a good sushi breakfast, then visit the Toyosu fish market, which has now taken over after the venerable but worn Tsukji market closed in 2018. The tuna auctions start already at half past four. a spectacle to experience. In the evening, try to get to Shibuya District, Tokyo’s own Times Square, Piccadilly Circus and the Champs-Élysées at once and filled with bars, restaurants and super shopping. Just stand in the Shibuya junction, close your eyes, open your eyes again and feel the big, wide and strange world! Endless other Tokyo tips include the Tokyo Hands and Isetan department stores, Tokyo NK, Takeshita Street with its many cosplay youths, the beautiful Meiji Temple and its surrounding forest, a true oasis in the metropolitan jungle, National Stadium built for the 1964 Summer Olympics and, of course, the Imperial Palace. Don’t forget to try to get some sleep too!
Day 4-14: On an adventure in Japan in your own car
You pick up your car today at Haneda Airport, which is about 30 minutes from Tokyo city center. If you lack inspiration for twelve days on the road in Japan, let us help you plan and book the rest of your trip.
Day 15: Departure from Osaka and arrival in Scandinavia
The car is returned at the airport, after which the journey goes home. Time depends on when your flight departs. Arrival the same day in Scandinavia.
Overnight stays
Two nights at a tourist class hotel in Tokyo
