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
$28,800travelling alone
The host of a tea ceremony measures matcha into the bowl. Every journey on Honshu includes a private tea ceremony in Kyoto.
the private collection, travelling alone
Travel through Japan alone, with a Tour Director beside you every day
Any of our four private journeys is yours on the dates you choose, with a Tour Director beside you every day.
Yours alone: for the two of you, for a guest travelling alone, 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
- One guest, in a room of your own
- dates
- Yours to choose
price, travelling alone
From $28,800
One guest, in a room of your own. All-inclusive.
- Twin share
- From $18,000 per person
- Travelling alone
- From $28,800
- Higher hotel level
- From $24,300 per person
A deposit 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.
Travelling alone with us means that you are never on your own with the language, the timetable or the menu. A private chauffeur meets your flight, and that evening your Tour Director, fluent in English and Japanese, joins you for the welcome dinner and is with you every day after it: at the temples and the markets, at the table as often as you wish, and in every conversation on the ground.
The ryokan of the Honshu journeys, at Kinosaki Onsen and at Lake Kawaguchi, receive a guest travelling alone, and the room is yours at every stop.
The four journeys
Each price shown is the whole, all-inclusive price for a guest travelling alone.
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
$35,200travelling alone
thirteen days · honshu
Definitive Japan
Thirteen days: Tokyo, two nights at Lake Kawaguchi beneath Mount Fuji, Kyoto, Kinosaki Onsen and Osaka, the fullest journey of the four.
Tokyo 3, Lake Kawaguchi 2, Kyoto 3, Kinosaki 2, Osaka 2 nights
$41,600travelling alone
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
$34,600travelling alone
on every journey
What every journey includes
The price of each journey is all-inclusive and per person, and each journey page sets out its own dinners, lunches and stays in full.
- A private chauffeur at the airport on the day you arrive and on the day you leave.
- The Green Car, the first-class carriage, between the cities of Honshu, and a private car and driver wherever the rail cannot go, and throughout 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 admission, and a Tour Director with you every day, fluent in English and Japanese.
the extension
Hiroshima and Miyajima
Three days more, offered on Essential Japan and Classic Japan, at $6,000 per person twin share, or $9,600 travelling alone.
From Osaka the Green Car reaches Hiroshima in about ninety minutes. Three nights at Hotel Granvia Hiroshima 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. Your Tour Director stays with you to the end, and a private chauffeur takes you to your flight from Hiroshima, or the Green Car returns you to Osaka or Tokyo for it.
begin
Begin with an enquiry
Tell us the journey and the dates you have in mind, and we reply in person with the itinerary and the next step. A deposit confirms your dates; the balance is due 95 days before you travel.
How the journeys are taken, and the four compared: The Private Collection.