With its twelve million inhabitants, its thousands of arteries and its scrape-sky which extend as far as the eye can see, Tokyo, the Japanese capital has what to impress. The district of Shybuya, considered as the birthplace of the pop Japanese culture, concentrates the greatest shopping centres of the city. Like other arteries of the megalopolis, this paradise of shopping changes face into evening when it illuminates its hundreds of neons. For impassioned new technologies and mangas, Akihabara is the place to discover. A contrario, Asakusa is a district which preserved the traditional charm of Japan with its Sensō-ji temple and its traditional houses. Authentic geishas regularly there are crossed.

With 150 kilometers north of Tokyo, Nikko is a charming small town which extends at the bottom of splendid Rocky Mountains. Main attractions, the temples and the sanctuaries of Nikko are part of the national treasures of Japan and Humanity as their registration attests some on the list of the World heritage of UNESCO. With their gardens decorated with cedars and pines, these sacred sites reveal an incomparable architectural smoothness. Nikko is also the main door with the national park of the same name. Extending from 300 with more than 2,500 meter altitudes, this protected space shelters many emblematic animals, to quote only the black bear, the Japanese macaque and the stag sika. The landscape is a harmonious unit formed by the lake Chuzenji which leads to the 57 falls of Kegon and the vast populated forest extent of pines and old Japanese cedars.

Located in the middle of the mountains in the west of the island of Honshu, Kyoto has a remarkable cultural heritage. Its many palaces, gardens and other temples make the pride of the Japanese metropolis. Several monuments were classified by UNESCO with the world heritage. More known, the Kinkaku-ji temple, is characterized by the sheets from gold which recover its walls. The gold house, while being reflected in the pond, offers a single visual show to the world. At the end of the winter and the beginning of spring, the garden of castle Nijo-Olympic Games is one of the most beautiful sites to admire the flowering of the plum trees and the cherry trees. In addition to its idyllic environment, the town of Kyoto is in full economic advancement especially in the field of the high tech. Recognized like university centre, Kyoto overflows of establishments of higher education as well in the public sector as private.

Third city of the country, Osaka is especially known to be a large modern metropolis. It is characterized by a made uniform architecture of concrete buildings and suspended major roads. The fallen night, the animated streets with multiple neons do not miss however a certain charm. You will be able to make some races in the districts of Umeda and Namba, and especially to taste with the very appreciated local kitchen gourmets. It is in the district of Dotombori that you will be able to have an outline of the night life which animates the city. Osaka counts also certain town attractions like the park Universal JapanTM Studios. Lastly, the city counts some historic buildings. The main thing is the castle of Osaka (Osaka-Olympic Games), built in 1586 by Toyotomi Hideyoshi like symbol of its power. The current building, rebuilt in 1931, rises on 5 stages, following the example of the original.

With a hundred kilometer of Tokyo, the mount Fuji Yama which culminates to 3,776 meter altitudes is a true symbol of the country, immortalized by many prints, as well as an important place of pilgrimage for its inhabitants. This volcanic cone of an almost perfect symmetry, registered with the World heritage of UNESCO in 2013, dominates a superb area strewn with lakes, caves, plates and cascades: the area of Fuji Go-KB offers beautiful points of view on the volcano. it is possible to admire this natural monument since various sites. If the rise of Fuji can be done only in summer, an escapade around the five lakes of the Fuji mount constitutes all the year an experiment ressourçante.

The town of Nagoya has a last rich person: since the 16th century, it is an important regional centre since it sheltered in particular in its castle the family of the shoguns Tokugawa. Built at the 17th century, it was then burnt during the Second World War before being rebuilt in the years 1950 in more modern materials. Today, the city knew to reappear of its ashes and fact proof of an economic dynamism and industrialist who propelled it to the row of fourth city of the country. In its many towers, its shopping centres and its broad avenues testify. In spite of his big size and his modernism with any test, Nagoya knew to keep a peaceful atmosphere, between museums, restaurants, gardens and trade, which pay its visit pleasant to the traveller.

With less than 19,000 km2, the island of Shikoku is smallest of the 4 main islands of Japan. It is also the only one not to count a volcano. Mainly rural, she is attended than the other islands, and will attract the visitors in search of authentic Japan, apart from the beaten paths. Matsumaya is the principal city of the island of Shikoku. It is mainly known for its thermal spring, Dogo Onsen, used since nearly 3,000 years. The current building of the public baths, built out of wood on three levels, goes back to 1894. The castle of Matsumaya, built in 1627, is one of rare country to be still of origin.

Main attraction of the island, the pilgrimage of the 88 temples of Shikoku is carried out by the henro, pilgrims dressed in white, who have followed for more than 1,000 years the traces of the great Buddhist saint Kobo Daishi. If it is necessary between 30 and 60 days to on foot traverse the whole of this circular circuit which makes the turn of the island, one can much more quickly do it in the bicycle or in a motorized vehicle, or choose to make only one small section of it. Opened with all the confessions, this pilgrimage which knows today a renewal of popularity, is a true interior experiment which will make you discover authentic Japan, quite different from the large ultramodern metropolises which live the imaginary collective.