Kansai
🗓️Trips from Osaka/Kyoto
- Arima - 1h - onsen resort in the mountains
- Kobe - 30m - a port city with a Chinatown, a sake brewery district, famous beef, and scenic parks on the mountain.
- Awaji - 1h30 - themed park (Naruto/Godzilla/..)
- Himeji - 1 hour - Japan’s largest castle and the filming location of “The Last Samurai”
- Wakayama - 1h
- Takeda Castle - 3h - ruins of a 17th-century mountain castle
- Okayama/Kurashiki - 45m - one of Japan’s three famous gardens and a street of traditional architecture along the canal
- Uji - 1h - City of Tea and Byodo-in Temple with a 10-yen coin
- Hikone - 1 hour - one of the 12 original castles with the cutest mascot
- Omi-Hatiman - 1h - an ancient merchant town
- Iga-Ueno - 2h - Ninja Museum
- Koka - 1h30m Ninja Village, Tanuki, and Sigaraaki Ceramics
- Sirahama - 2h30m - (beach/onsen)
- Ikaru-ga - 40m - the oldest wooden structures of the Horyu-ji temple
- Akashi - 40m - a small town with a morning market and views of the Akashi Strait and the famous bridge.
- Kisawada - 40m - a castle town and the birthplace of a famous festival
- Mino-o - 30m - waterfalls and Darum temple
- Kasivara - 30m - light walks and Nassen dyeing
- Tamba-Sasayama - 1h 15m, a city with a castle and ceramics.
- Tondabayashi - 30m - a town with a district preserving traditional Osaka buildings
- Fukusaki - 2 hours - a town with yokai and demons and motimugi noodles
- Yumura Onsen - 3-3.5 hours - hot springs and calmer than in Kinosaki