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Italy and Japan side by side: recommended length, best time, daily budget, highlights and which one suits whom.
Europe
Long tables, short distances, and the pleasure of slowing down together.
Asia
A city that runs on time, and the quiet that comes with an early start.
Why Italy?
Rome, Florence, and Venice. Three cities are enough. The real question is which one you decide, together, to linger in.
Italy is the easiest home a group trip can have, and the plan that comes apart the fastest. You each arrive with a list: the Colosseum, a bridge, a gondola. The list is fine. Set the pace wrong and the city turns into a queue.
Why Japan?
Tokyo is pace. Kyoto is a breath. You can have both. A JR Pass is not required on every route.
Japan tires you less than you expect. What tires you is packing every neighborhood into the same day. In Tokyo, one neighborhood is a day. In Kyoto, a temple path walked before the crowd arrives is a different city.
