How much a luxury Japan tour costs depends on one choice: whether to join a published tour on its dates, or to have a tour designed for one party alone. With Luxury Japan Travel the six published tours cost $18,500 to $21,500 per person, for eleven to thirteen days, and a Custom Tour of Japan costs from $3,500 per person, per day. Every price is all-inclusive.
the six tours
The published tours
The Classic Cherry Blossom Tour of Japan, twelve days from 30 March to 10 April 2027, is $19,500 per person. The Cherry Blossom Tour of Hokkaido follows the blossoms north for thirteen days from 28 April 2027, at $18,500, and the Summer Tour of Hokkaido, twelve days in late June or mid-July, is also $18,500. The Wild North Tour of Hokkaido, eleven days from 27 July 2027, is $21,500. The Autumn Leaves Tour of Northern Japan, 2 to 13 November 2027, is $19,500. The Autumn Leaves Tour of Japan, at the same price, is sold out for its 2026 departure.
Each price is per person, twin share, and covers the whole of the tour: every night at the hotels and ryokan named on the tour page, first-class rail, a private car on certain days, a private chauffeur at the airport in each direction, every entrance, and the meals of the itinerary. On the cherry blossom tour there are more than twenty of them, from two hanami picnics prepared by a Michelin-starred kitchen to a farewell dinner at a sushi counter in Osaka. A Tour Director travels every mile with the group, which never exceeds eight.
A deposit of $3,500 per person confirms a place, and the balance is due 95 days before departure. Some of the tours can continue beyond their last night. The Classic Cherry Blossom Tour of Japan continues to Nara for two days, to Hiroshima and Miyajima for three, or to both. The Cherry Blossom Tour of Hokkaido continues to Lake Akan, and the July departure of the Summer Tour of Hokkaido to the east of the island, ending at Kushiro. The Autumn Leaves Tour of Northern Japan continues to Tokyo for two nights on the palace moat.
private journeys
The Private Collection
The Private Collection is four private journeys, already written and taken on the dates a guest chooses, with a Tour Director every day. Each is priced per person, twin share, and all-inclusive.
- Essential Japan, nine days through Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka: $18,000 per person, twin share.
- Classic Japan, eleven days, adding two nights at Kinosaki: $22,000 per person, twin share.
- Definitive Japan, thirteen days, adding two nights beneath Mount Fuji: $26,000 per person, twin share.
- Pure Hokkaido, nine days from Hakodate to Sapporo: $21,600 per person, twin share.
Essential Japan and Classic Japan can continue to Hiroshima and Miyajima for three days. A deposit confirms the dates, and the balance is due 95 days before travel.
the custom tour
A tour for one party
A Custom Tour of Japan is designed for one party, on its own dates, for five nights or more, and priced from $3,500 per person, per day.
Above that figure, the price follows the choices: the suite rather than the room; a ryokan of eighteen rooms in the centre of Kyoto, or a villa in the birch woods of Niseko with two private onsen of its own; the whole counter at a sushi restaurant in Ginza for an evening; a helicopter over the mountains, a private aircraft between regions, or a yacht across the Inland Sea. Each is quoted in the proposal, which carries the only total.
The design begins with a journey curation fee of $1,500, credited in full against the tour. A deposit, stated in the proposal, confirms the dates, and the balance is due 95 days before travel.
the itinerary
A written itinerary
For a guest who wants the route planned by Luxury Japan Travel and then travelled independently, the Expert Japan Itinerary is a written itinerary delivered in seven working days, from $550, with one revision included. A journey longer than fifteen days is a Custom Tour.
the ryokan
Reading a ryokan price
Prices in Japan are not always quoted the way a Western traveller expects, and the ryokan is the clearest case. A ryokan is priced per person, not per room, and the standard rate, ippaku nishoku, one night and two meals, includes the kaiseki dinner served in the room or a private dining room and the breakfast the next morning. A figure that looks high beside a city hotel's room rate is carrying two meals for two people, and a ryokan night is best compared with a hotel night plus dinner at a serious restaurant.
outside the price
What sits outside the price
International flights are booked by the guest. Luxury Japan Travel advises on them in full: the routing, the airline, and the flight that lands in time for the welcome evening. Tipping is not customary in Japan. In restaurants and hotels the service is in the bill. A gratuity for the Tour Directors at the end is standard practice and welcomed.
the choice
Which to choose
A couple who want to be in Kyoto for the cherry blossoms in the first days of April, with every arrangement made and a small company around them at dinner, will find everything they want in the published tour, at a price known from the start. A family of three generations, a couple who want Kyoto in the quiet of January, or a party of friends who want the whole of Hokkaido in winter, will want the Custom Tour, and the proposal sets out every day and every figure before the tour price falls due.