Hiroshima Day Trips from Osaka
Hiroshima is about 90 minutes from Osaka by bullet train. Tours pair the Peace Memorial Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome with the floating torii of Miyajima, a short ferry away.
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Day Trips from Osaka
Most day trips from Osaka go to Kyoto, Nara, Kobe or Himeji Castle, all about an hour or less by train. Hiroshima and Miyajima are some 90 minutes away by bullet train.
Kyoto Day Trips from Osaka
Kyoto is under 30 minutes from Osaka by train. Tours cover the torii gates of Fushimi Inari, the Arashiyama bamboo grove, Kiyomizu-dera and Gion; some add Uji or Nara.
Nara Day Trips from Osaka
Nara is about 40 minutes from Osaka by train. Its park has more than 1,000 free-roaming deer around Todai-ji and its bronze Great Buddha; most tours pair it with Kyoto.
Day Trips from Osaka to Kobe
Kobe is 20 minutes from Osaka by rapid train. Tours take in Chinatown and the harbour, the night view from Mt Rokko and Arima Onsen, one of Japan's oldest hot springs.
Himeji Day Trips from Osaka
Himeji Castle, the white castle on the UNESCO list, is about an hour west of Osaka by train. Tours pair it with Engyo-ji on Mt Shosha, Arima Onsen, Kobe or Nara.
Koyasan Day Trips from Osaka
Koyasan is the temple town Kobo Daishi founded on Mount Koya, about 2 hours south of Osaka. Tours walk through the Okunoin cemetery to his mausoleum and visit Kongobu-ji.
Wakayama Day Trips from Osaka
Wakayama city is about an hour south of Osaka by train, and the prefecture also holds Mount Koya and the Kumano Kodo pilgrimage routes, whose shrines take a long full day.
Longer days east of Kansai: the thatched farmhouses of Shirakawa-go with Kanazawa, Nagoya Castle and the Toyota museum, or the ice monsters of Mt Gozaisho in winter.
Shiga surrounds Lake Biwa, the largest lake in Japan, about an hour from Osaka. Trips visit the Omi-Hachiman canal, the Miho Museum and the Koka ninja village, or ski at Biwako Valley.
Amanohashidate is a pine-covered sandbar, one of Japan's Three Scenic Views, about 2.5 hours from Osaka. Tours add the funaya boathouses of Ine and the thatched village of Miyama.
Some trips from Osaka need more than a day: tours of 2 to 10 days through Kyoto, Nara, Hiroshima and western Japan by bullet train, with hotels included.
A forest trail in Minoh leads to a 33-metre waterfall and Katsuo-ji, the daruma temple, 30 minutes from Osaka. Trips to Takarazuka visit Nakayama-dera and the Tezuka museum.
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