Ready-made trip plans

Tokyo

Japan's vast capital — a city of distinct neighbourhoods rather than one centre: old-temple Asakusa, neon Shibuya, mega-hub Shinjuku,…

Kyoto

Japan's old capital — a city of temples, shrines, geisha districts and bamboo.

Osaka

Japan's kitchen — a food-first city built for eating, walking, and nightlife.

Fukuoka

Kyushu's biggest city and Japan's gateway to Asia — birthplace of tonkotsu ramen and mentaiko, famous for the open-air yatai food stalls…

Hiroshima

A western-Honshu city rebuilt around the Peace Memorial Park, where the A-Bomb Dome and museum tell the story of 1945, and the gateway to…

Kanazawa

Hokuriku's best-preserved castle town, spared wartime bombing — home to Kenrokuen, one of Japan's three great gardens, the gold-leaf and…

Kobe

Japan's stylish cosmopolitan port, wedged between sea and mountains — the waterfront of Harborland and Meriken Park, the lantern-lit lanes…

Also works as a day trip from Kyoto and Osaka.

Nara

Japan's first permanent capital — a compact, walkable city of giant temples, free-roaming deer and an old merchant quarter.

Also works as a day trip from Kyoto and Osaka.

Okinawa

Japan's subtropical south — the former Ryukyu Kingdom, with castles and pottery lanes in Naha, the whale sharks of Churaumi Aquarium in…

Yokohama

Japan's cosmopolitan port second city, a quick train south of Tokyo — the futuristic Minato Mirai waterfront with its landmark tower,…

Seoul

Korea's capital — five Joseon palaces and hanok lanes folded into a 24-hour megacity of markets, cafés and neon.

Taipei

Taiwan's capital — temple lanes and night markets folded into a walkable metro city, from old-town Wanhua to Taipei 101, with some of…

Istanbul

Where Europe meets Asia across the Bosphorus — imperial mosques and the Grand Bazaar on the historic peninsula, meyhane nights in Beyoğlu,…

Paris

The Seine-side capital of art and appetite — the Louvre and Notre-Dame, café terraces in the Marais, Montmartre's hill and the Eiffel…

Rome

Three thousand years stacked into one city — imperial ruins beside baroque piazzas, Michelangelo's ceiling a walk from a trattoria table,…

Barcelona

A medieval port city with Gaudí grafted onto it and a beach at the end of the metro line — Gothic alleys on one side of the grid,…

Madrid

A capital that keeps its best things indoors and its best hours late — three world-class painting collections within one walk, a royal…

Amsterdam

A city built on piles and organised by water — four concentric canals wrapped around a medieval core, gabled merchant houses leaning over…

Vienna

An imperial capital that kept its scale — Habsburg palaces and world-rank museums inside the Ring, and beyond it the coffee houses,…

Prague

A compact, spire-studded capital whose medieval core survived the 20th century almost untouched — cobbled squares, one famous bridge over…

Berlin

The German capital reunified — a metropolis built from two half-cities stitched back together after 1990, and it shows: Cold War scar…

Munich

Bavaria's capital pairs a compact, walkable old town — Marienplatz, the Frauenkirche's twin domes, a produce market that's been open since…