7 nights · Any season
Eating through Kansai: Osaka, the coast of Ise-Shima and Kyoto
A trip for people who travel to eat: two nights in Osaka, the Shimakaze to the pearl bays of Ise-Shima for French cooking from Ise lobster, abalone and Matsusaka beef, and three nights in Kyoto. The legs are planned around meals, markets and the train between.
- Nights
- 7
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- 3
- When
- Any season
Japan
We build it around you
Tell us your dates, your pace and who is travelling. We draw the route around them, choose the inns and rooms, arrange the trains and cars between each stay, and stay one point of contact from the first plan to the last night. Every stay at its own rate.
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1 · 2 nightsPatina OsakaA hotel beside Osaka Castle Park, with a teppanyaki counter, a Basque grill and a restaurant following Japan's 72 micro-seasons, for the Kuromon market and the counters of Dotonbori and Shinsekai; Osaka-Namba station is about 15 minutes by taxi for the Shimakaze at 10:40.
2 · Day trainOka21000, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsShimakazeKintetsu's premium train from Osaka-Namba by Ise to Kashikojima, about two hours and 25 minutes, arriving at 13:03; the auberge sends a car from the station between 14:00 and 17:00.
3 · 2 nightsThe Hiramatsu KashikojimaEight rooms over Ago Bay with French dinners from Ise-Shima produce, for the coast and the shrines of Ise Jingu, about 45 minutes up the line by train; the Shimakaze leaves Kashikojima at 14:50 (not on Wednesdays) and reaches Kyoto at about 17:30.
4 · 3 nightsThe Ritz-Carlton, KyotoA hotel on the Kamo river at Nijo-Ohashi with kaiseki, sushi, tempura and teppanyaki counters, a short walk from the Nishiki market and Pontocho; the Haruka express from Kyoto station reaches Kansai airport in about 75 minutes.
Make it yours
This is one way to do it. We change the stays, their order and the nights in each to suit you, move it to the season you want, and plan the days between: the trains and cars, the restaurants worth the detour, a quieter night where the route needs one. Tell us your dates and who is travelling, and our team in Japan will draw up your own.
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