Highlights of Japan

Japan compresses centuries into city blocks, and nowhere is that tension more vivid than Tokyo, where a centuries-old shrine can stand in the shadow of a glass tower without anyone blinking. This eight-day itinerary keeps your group rooted in two distinct places — the sprawling Japanese capital and the Fukushima region to the north — long enough to move past the surface and start asking the harder, more interesting questions about how a country rebuilds, reinvents, and remembers.