A return winter journey
through Japan

Eleven nights from the neon quiet of Shinjuku to a New Year's Eve in Osaka — by way of a ryokan tucked in the hills of Hakone and two nights in Hiroshima on the Seto Inland Sea.

地図 · THE ROUTE

Our path across Honshu

The route threads west along Japan's main island: a Romancecar ride from Shinjuku into the mountains of Hakone, then the Shinkansen carries us onward to Hiroshima on the Seto Inland Sea, and back east to Osaka for New Year.

Tokyo

Hakone

Osaka

Hiroshima

🚄 Tokyo → Hakone by Odakyu Romancecar, then Shinkansen onward to Hiroshima and Osaka.