private & exclusive luxury tours of japan

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A narrow stone path between tall wooden fences, lined with small lit paper lanterns, leading to a lit window and a doorway
An approach lit by paper lanterns

why luxury japan travel?

Exclusively Japan

For almost two decades, Luxury Japan Travel has created and operated journeys through Japan with one purpose: to make your time here exceptional.

Tours of Japan through the year

In 2027 we run six departures, and each one follows a single season of Japan.

The Classic Cherry Blossom Tour of Japan begins at the palace moat in Tokyo and gives three nights to Kyoto, among the temples of Higashiyama and the teahouse lanes of Gion.

Luxury Japan tours for 2027

Every published tour is limited to 8 guests, twin share, at one inclusive price.

Set the 2027 tours side by side

Red paper lanterns and cherry trees in blossom along the empty teahouse street of Higashi Chaya, Kanazawa, in spring
Higashi Chaya in blossom, Kanazawa

Spring

The Classic Cherry Blossom Tour of Japan

30 March to 10 April 2027

$22,500 per person, twin share

The Cherry Blossom Tour of Hokkaido

28 April to 10 May 2027

$18,500 per person, twin share

Rainbow rows of flowers and red poppies on the hillside of Farm Tomita, Furano, Hokkaido, in high summer
Farm Tomita, Furano, Hokkaido

Summer

The Summer Tour of Hokkaido

25 June to 6 July 2027, or 11 to 22 July 2027

$18,500 per person, twin share

The Wild North Tour of Hokkaido

27 July to 6 August 2027

$21,500 per person, twin share

A large steaming pale turquoise hot spring pond ringed by autumn colour, Oyunuma, Noboribetsu, Hokkaido
Oyunuma in autumn, Noboribetsu, Hokkaido

Autumn

The Autumn Leaves Tour of Northern Japan

2 to 13 November 2027

$19,500 per person, twin share

The 2026 departures of The Autumn Leaves Tour of Northern Japan and The Autumn Leaves Tour of Japan are sold out.

Mount Yotei, a white cone above the plain, seen from the open snow at the top of the Niseko ski area under a blue sky
Mount Yotei from the top of Niseko
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Winter

Private ski journeys in Japan

Niseko, Hakuba and Myoko

To ski independently, a Japan ski itinerary is written for your party, from $550.

The Private Collection

On the dates you choose

From $18,000 per person, twin share

All prices are in US dollars.

A dark tatami hall opening through its doors onto a temple garden and gate
A temple hall opening onto its garden

on the dates you choose

Private journeys in Japan

The Private Collection

Four ready-made journeys through Japan, taken privately on the dates you choose, with a Tour Director every day.

Prices are per person, twin share.

The Custom Tour of Japan

A tour of Japan created around your party alone, from five nights, on your dates and at your pace. You tell us what you love, and we create the tour and run every day of it.

The Expert Japan Itinerary

Travel Japan independently, with every day already planned by us: the hotels, the trains and the order of the days, in your hands within seven working days.

how it begins

How a journey with us begins

Tell us the tour you have in mind, and its itinerary comes to you day by day, every hotel named. When you would like to talk it through, a Tour Director calls you at a time that suits you, and from that moment Japan is yours to enjoy.

I honestly could not think of a better way to experience Japan.
Daniel T.

questions

Which way does the cherry blossom travel?

North. The blossom opens in the south of Japan and travels up the country for more than a month, crossing the Tsugaru Strait to Hokkaido last. Japan calls its progress the sakura zensen, the blossom front. The Classic Cherry Blossom Tour of Japan runs through Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka, and the Cherry Blossom Tour of Hokkaido follows the front across the far north.

How many guests travel on a published tour?

Limited to 8 guests, a truly small group tour. Every guest is eighteen or over, and everyone is accommodated twin share.

How much does a luxury tour of Japan cost?

Our published tours of 2027 run eleven to thirteen days, from $18,500 per person, twin share, one inclusive price: all breakfasts, and all other meals as detailed in the itinerary. A private journey of The Private Collection, on the dates you choose, is from $18,000 per person for nine days, and a Custom Tour of Japan, created around your party alone, is from $3,500 per person, per day.

What does the price include?

One inclusive price per person covers every night at the hotels and ryokan named, your Tour Director from the welcome evening to the final departure, first-class rail, a private vehicle on certain days, a private chauffeur at the airport at both ends, every entrance, all breakfasts, and all other meals as detailed in the itinerary. International flights are not included.

Can we take a tour privately?

Yes, in three ways. The Private Collection offers four journeys on the dates you choose. The Custom Tour of Japan is created around your party alone. And a whole departure of a published tour may be taken by one party of up to eight guests, at the published price per person.

Do you arrange international flights?

We do not book international flights, and we always advise on them: the routing, the timing and the flight that brings you in right for the welcome evening.

Who leads the tours?

Our Tour Directors travel with you from the first evening to the last, and a private chauffeur meets you at the airport.

Tell us when you would like to travel, and we will write back with the journey that season offers.

Or read The Japan Edition, our journal of Japan.