nine days · honshu
Essential Japan
Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka in nine days: the capital, the old imperial city and the kitchen of Japan, with a day in Nara.
Tokyo 3, Kyoto 3, Osaka 2 nights
Two chairs turned to a garden lit for the evening.
the private collection, for two
Travel through Japan together, in private and on your own dates
Any of our four private journeys is yours alone, on the dates you choose, with your own Tour Director.
Yours alone: for the two of you, for a solo guest, or for two couples or four friends together. Every day is planned in full before you arrive.
- journeys
- Four, of nine to thirteen days
- where
- Honshu, from Tokyo to Osaka, or Hokkaido
- guests
- Two guests, or up to four in two rooms
- dates
- Yours to choose
A deposit of $3,500 per person confirms your dates; the balance is due 95 days before you travel. Safe, secure, encrypted payment, by card or bank transfer.
Choose a journey and your dates
First day
Last day
Set by the journey, nine days
Choose a start date and we check the calendar for all nine days.
Two of you, and no one else: the car that meets your flight, the Tour Director who joins you for the welcome dinner that evening, the tea ceremony in Kyoto and the ryokan table at the end of the day are for the two of you alone, on the dates you choose.
Two couples, or four friends, may take any journey together in two rooms.
The four journeys
Each journey carries one inclusive price per person, twin share, set out on its own page: all breakfasts, and all other meals as detailed in the itinerary.
eleven days · honshu
Classic Japan
Eleven days that add two nights at a ryokan in Kinosaki Onsen to Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka: a yukata, seven bathhouses and a canal lined with willows.
Tokyo 3, Kyoto 3, Kinosaki 2, Osaka 2 nights
thirteen days · honshu
Definitive Japan
Thirteen days: Tokyo, two nights beneath Mount Fuji, Kyoto, Kinosaki Onsen and Osaka, the fullest journey of the four.
Tokyo 3, Mount Fuji 2, Kyoto 3, Kinosaki 2, Osaka 2 nights
nine days · hokkaido
Pure Hokkaido
Nine days across the north: Hakodate, Noboribetsu, Otaru and Sapporo, six nights of them at ryokan with their own hot springs, in either direction.
Hakodate 2, Noboribetsu 2, Otaru 2, Sapporo 2 nights
on every journey
What every journey includes
Each journey carries one inclusive price per person, set out on its own page: all breakfasts, and all other meals as detailed in the itinerary; each journey page sets out its own dinners, lunches and stays in full.
- A private luxury car and chauffeur for each couple to and from the airport.
- First class on the Shinkansen between the cities of Honshu, and a private car and driver wherever the rail cannot go, and in Hokkaido.
- Your luggage sent ahead between hotels, so you travel light.
- Breakfast every day and most of the dinners, a welcome dinner on the first night of each Honshu journey, and your Tour Director's recommendations on the evenings left open.
- A private tea ceremony and a sake tasting on Honshu, a whisky tasting at Yoichi on Hokkaido, a craft studio and the market walks on every journey.
- Every entrance on the plan, and the same Tour Director in every city.
the extension
Hiroshima and Miyajima
Three days more, to Hiroshima and the island of Miyajima, offered on Essential Japan and Classic Japan. Ask us when you enquire.
From Osaka the shinkansen reaches Hiroshima in first class in about ninety minutes. Three nights at a hotel at Hiroshima Station allow an afternoon at the Peace Memorial Park and Museum, a day on Miyajima for Itsukushima Shrine and its great torii standing in the water, and a morning in Shukkei-en, the garden of the Asano lords. On the last morning a private luxury car and chauffeur takes you to your flight from Hiroshima, or the shinkansen returns you to Osaka or Tokyo for it, in first class.
begin
Begin with an enquiry
Tell us the journey and the dates you have in mind. A deposit of $3,500 per person confirms your dates; the balance is due 95 days before you travel.
From the very beginning, the service was outstanding.
Mateo V.
How the journeys are taken, and the four compared: The Private Collection.