Luxury Japan Tours

The tours worth taking follow one season from start to finish, name every hotel and ryokan before you book, keep one team of Tour Directors with the group throughout, and are sold at one price. Ours do all four. In 2027 they follow the cherry blossom through Honshu and through Hokkaido, the Hokkaido summer, the wild north of Shiretoko, and the autumn colour of northern Japan. The best luxury tours of Japan, and how to choose one (opens in a new tab) sets out the questions to ask of any company.

Our published tours cost $18,500 to $21,500 per person, twin share, for 11 to 13 days, with every night, first-class rail, private transfers, the Tour Directors and more than twenty meals included. A private journey of The Private Collection costs From $18,000 per person, twin share, and a Custom Tour of Japan From $3,500 per person, per day. How much a luxury Japan tour costs (opens in a new tab) sets out what each price covers.

Both. A published tour travels as a small group on set dates, twin share, with two Tour Directors. The Private Collection offers four written journeys taken privately by one party on its own dates, with a Tour Director every day. The Custom Tour of Japan is created around one party alone and can go anywhere in the country. A whole departure of a published tour may also be taken by one party, at the published price per person.

Yes. Each published tour is limited to 8 guests, a truly small group tour, so that everyone sits comfortably at one table in a ryokan and fits easily into a private teahouse room for the evening with the geiko and maiko.

Every night at the hotels and ryokan named on the tour page, first-class rail, a private vehicle on certain days, a private chauffeur at the airport on arrival and departure, every entrance, more than twenty meals, and your Tour Directors from the welcome evening to the final departure. International flights are not included. We strongly recommend comprehensive travel insurance, and we are glad to tell you what it should cover.

Our published tours run 11 to 13 days, and the journeys of The Private Collection 9 to 13 days. Ten days to two weeks suits a first journey through Tokyo, Mount Fuji, Kyoto and Osaka at an easy pace, and Hokkaido deserves a journey of its own: luxury Hokkaido tours gathers every one we make.

Yes. The Autumn Leaves Tour of Northern Japan runs from 2 to 13 November 2027, twelve days from the mountains above Sapporo to Ginzan Onsen, at $19,500 per person, twin share. Every autumn tour and private journey is on Japan fall foliage tours 2027.

Yes, two. The Summer Tour of Hokkaido, twelve days with two departures in 2027, and the Wild North Tour of Hokkaido, from 27 July to 6 August 2027. Both are set side by side on Japan summer tours.

The Classic Cherry Blossom Tour of Japan, 30 March to 10 April 2027; The Cherry Blossom Tour of Hokkaido, 28 April to 10 May 2027; The Summer Tour of Hokkaido, 25 June to 6 July 2027, or 11 to 22 July 2027; The Wild North Tour of Hokkaido, 27 July to 6 August 2027; The Autumn Leaves Tour of Northern Japan, 2 to 13 November 2027. Each is a fixed departure, and the availability calendar shows every open date.

Begin an enquiry and we reply personally. A deposit of $3,500 per person secures your place, and the balance falls due 95 days before departure. If you would like to talk the tour through first, a call with your Tour Directors is available before you book.