Skip the Japan 73% see.
Discover the other 95%.

Walk a pilgrimage road
a thousand years old.

One of only two UNESCO-listed pilgrimage routes on Earth. Inns and luggage forwarding included, so all you carry is a daypack.

Snow, gaslight,
and a street of hot springs.

Ginzan Onsen is lined with wooden inns from the Taisho era. Have tattoos? We confirm each property’s policy before we book.

The valley of thatched roofs
is still a living village.

The World Heritage village and old-town Takayama in a single day. We can build it from either Kanazawa or Takayama.

Unpack once.
Wake up somewhere new.

On a cruise from Japan, you reach the next port while you sleep. No booking fee, and we can arrange flights and a pre-cruise hotel too.

Traveling just to eat?
A perfectly good plan.

Tsukiji food walks, back-street spots with no English menu, sake breweries and tea country. We build itineraries around eating.