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Tailor-made journeys

Your Japan, thoughtfully designed.

Every private journey starts from your group: who is travelling, when, at what pace, and what you hope to see. We shape a plan around it in English, Vietnamese or Japanese, and change it with you until it fits.

Design My JourneyExplore Japan by region

Your brief stays on your device. If a mail app is configured, the email button opens a draft for you to review and send yourself.

A sika deer resting under autumn trees in Nara Park, in front of Tōdai-ji.
Deer in Nara Park, before Tōdai-ji

Your week in Japan, shaped by the seasons

Start with a Golden Route, explore a seasonal snow journey, or discover the landscapes of Kanto and Kyushu. These are sample itineraries; final routes and services are arranged with our team.

See all sample tours

Ways to travel

Each is planned privately for your group. None is an off-the-shelf package.

  • Yuigahama, the seaside beach at Kamakura, under a warm glowing sky.

    Day escapes

    A private day out from a city base such as Tokyo or Kyoto, with transport and timings planned around your group.

  • Shirakawa-go in Gifu Prefecture in winter, under snow.

    Multi-day journeys

    Several regions in one trip, with the order of places, the travel days and the overnight stops set to your pace.

  • A tea plantation in Fuji City, Shizuoka Prefecture, under a wide sky.

    From your own idea

    No route in mind yet? Start from your dates, your group and what you enjoy, and we suggest where to go.

Sample itineraries

Ideas from our seasonal posters

Each poster shows one example of a journey we can arrange in Japan, not a scheduled departure. Dates, places and services are planned with you.

  • Poster “Japan's Momiji Starts Here!”: red and orange maples above four arched photos: a tower, a snow-capped mountain, a pagoda and a castle among autumn leaves.

    Japan's momiji starts here

    Four lengths: 6 days 5 nights, 7 days 6 nights, 9 days 8 nights or 11 days 10 nights

    Services on the poster: airport transfers and transport, multilingual guides, hotel stays and custom itineraries.

    View the full poster

  • Poster “Autumn foliage, 9 days 8 nights”: a red pagoda with Mt Fuji behind it, and small photos of the stops.

    Autumn foliage

    9 days 8 nights

    • Tokyo, Hakone, Mt Fuji, Kyoto, Hiroshima, Osaka

    The poster lists transport, a guide, meals and hotel stays.

    View the full poster

  • Poster “Travel Japan, 6 days 5 nights”: Mt Fuji framed by red maples, with photos of the stops on a dotted path.

    Travel Japan

    6 days 5 nights

    • TokyoImperial Palace, Sensō-ji in Asakusa, Tokyo Skytree
    • Mt FujiLake Kawaguchi, Oishi Park, Honchō Street in Fujiyoshida
    • Kyoto, Nara and OsakaFushimi Inari Taisha, Nara Park, Osaka Castle, Dōtonbori

    View the full poster

  • Poster “Japan, 9 days 8 nights” in winter: a skier on a snowy slope, a snow-covered village and monkeys in a hot spring.

    Japan in winter

    9 days 8 nights

    • Nagoya, Shirakawa-go, Takayama, Matsumoto, Hakuba, Nagano, Shibu Onsen and the snow monkeys, Karuizawa, Tokyo

    View the full poster

Each quotation is prepared personally from your itinerary, dates, travellers and the services agreed with you.

Shaped around who is travelling

  • Families with children

    The days are planned around the children’s ages, with time to rest, manageable transfers and places that suit them.

  • Older travellers

    A gentler pace, fewer hotel changes and less walking, where you ask for it.

  • Couples and friends

    Your interests first, whether food, culture, nature or snow, at your own rhythm.

  • Private groups

    Families travelling together, friends or company groups, with transport sized to the group.

How a private journey is shaped

  1. You tell us about your trip

    You choose what matters for your trip in the journey planner. It prepares a brief on your device for you to review, download or copy.

  2. A person plans it with you

    You send the brief to us by e-mail from the planner. A member of the team reads it and suggests a plan that suits your group’s pace.

  3. We adjust it together

    You tell us what to change. Services are booked only after you agree to the plan and each provider confirms availability.

What to tell us

The more we know, the better the first plan fits. Anything you do not know yet can wait.

  • Your travel dates, or the season you have in mind
  • Where your trip in Japan starts and ends
  • How many people are travelling
  • Children and their ages
  • The pace you prefer, and anyone who needs to walk less
  • What you would like to see and do
  • Preferred transport, type of stay and language of service

Good to know

  • Planning a journey on this website does not create a booking. Services are arranged only after the plan and conditions are agreed and availability is checked with providers.
  • Your quotation is based on the proposed itinerary, travel dates, group size and services requested.
  • Each service depends on availability for your dates, which we check with its provider before arranging it.

Planning for clients?

Travel companies can prepare a brief for Japan land arrangements on our partner page.

Prepare a partner brief

Photo credits

The photographs on this page are real photographs from Wikimedia Commons, shown under the licences listed. Creators are named as they are published there. They are resized and cropped for display.