Private ryokan, chef's tables with no menus, temples before dawn, Japan in its most intimate form, designed entirely for you.
Design your Japan journey →Japan is a country that resists surface travel. Its depth reveals itself slowly, in the ceremony of a perfect tea, in the silence of a moss garden after rain, in a meal where every ingredient was chosen at dawn by the chef who will serve you tonight. This is Japan as very few ever experience it. We know the ryokan families who have hosted guests for twelve generations. We know which season, which town, which narrow street unlocks the version you will never forget.
The Fushimi Inari gates at first light, with a private guide who was born in the neighbourhood. Tea ceremony in a family home, not a tourist hall. Kyoto as it existed before it became famous.
A centuries-old inn on a mountain river. Rotenburo hot spring baths under open sky. A kaiseki dinner of fifteen courses, each one a conversation about the season. This is what Japanese hospitality means at its finest.
Counter seats at an eight-seat sushi bar where reservations are taken only by introduction. An izakaya beneath a railway arch where the chef knows us by name. The Tokyo that doesn't appear on lists, because the best never do.
Tokyo to Kyoto by private rail, through cities that dazzle and villages that whisper. Entirely adjustable to your season, your pace, your curiosity.
Private transfer to a design hotel in Shinjuku. Evening introduction walk through the lantern-lit alleys of Yanaka with a local guide.
Tsukiji outer market at dawn. A private sushi counter lunch. Afternoon in a contemporary art space. Dinner at a counter restaurant with no written menu.
Private mountain ryokan with open-air hot spring bath and a view of Fuji at sunset. Forest walk through the cedar-lined Nakasendo trail.
Three full days in Kyoto: pre-dawn temples, private tea ceremony, Gion neighbourhood evening walk, and a sake tasting with a master brewer.
The Itsukushima floating torii gate at high tide. Dinner in a restaurant overlooking the Seto Inland Sea. Departure from Hiroshima or Osaka.
Tell us what moves you, and we will find the version of Japan that exists nowhere else.
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