Tailor-made Holidays in Japan Traveller Reviews

Sheila helped us organize this wonderful trip to Japan. She was extremely helpful, prompt with all replies and had great suggestions for our first trip to Japan. Everything was perfectly organized - from pre-departure information to transfers/ tickets/ wifi etc. We would definitely recommend Inside Japan.

See above - wonderful trip.

I recently enjoyed 12 days in Japan with Inside Japan. Japan is a complete destination where new meets old, great food, incredibly warm people anywhere you went, cultural items abound and points of interest are almost limitless.

I am a travel agent of nearly 40 years but still wanted to trust my trip with a true professional. I sent in my brief and almost immediatlley the breif was met wi

Inside Japan prepared a dream-come-true holiday for us. Our family dislikes group tours, and we have traveled the world independently for years. This year, as a graduation present, we all went to Japan, a place where I worked many decades ago. I wanted to show my children the wonders of this stunning country. Grant, our tour guide, listened to our concerns, desires, planned destinations and even suggested a few new ones (like Hakone) which were a real gem. The accommodations, guides, tickets all met our standards, and then some. What a joy to go through Inside Japan. I will definitely be using this company again in the future. Just wow!

Grant Ekelund was amazing. He always responded to our emails in a timely manner and Zoomed with us. He immediately followed up with venue or hotel suggestions and he did miracles with our budget. We felt cared for by Grant. We have never used a company or tour guide before, but knowing that Japan could be a bit daunting, we took a leap of faith, and Grant did not disappoint. Thank you so much Grant for your guidance and for making these family memories so rich for us!

Self guided tour of Japan

Very efficient and provided good travel itinerary and ideas

We were celebrating our Honeymoon one year late! We went to Tokyo, Hakone and Kyoto. We did sight-seeing, tried every different kind of food, went shopping, and ultimately got immersed in the country's culture.

They basically planned the entire thing. We gave them a time of year we wanted to go, and a list of things we wanted to do, and they did the rest.

We enjoyed ourselves so much that I made a video of our holiday experiences in Japan during our return flight home. I posted photos to Facebook and received so many compliments of how everyone had enjoyed seeing all the things we got up to. Even though we were probably doing all the usual sight seeing tours that everyone else does it felt like a really personal experience.

We used Inside Japan, the service was excellent. They even phoned us from Bristol to check that we were ok when we were 10 mins late meeting our tour guide in Kyoto because we had had to wait so long at the taxi rank at Kyoto station.

Incredible 2 week independent tour around Central Japan. A splendid mix of city hustle and bustle, as well as tje serenity of mountain towns.

Very knowledgeable and an excellent itinwrary planned for us, leaving sufficient time to do our own exploring as well.

My little brother and I went to Japan to explore Tokyo and Kyoto. As general car nerds, the car culture was extremely unique and was great to watch. We visited the Nismo Omori Factory along with an Up Garage. Both provided experiences we could've never gotten in the US. The food was awesome and the culture there is one of the most respectful I've ever witnessed. Japan is an amazing country, I would recommend putting it on the bucket list.

Inside Japan helped my brother and I plan and make travel arrangements for our first solo visit to the country. They were incredibly helpful and made our first vacation a success. If this is your first trip to Japan and don't want to be handheld by a tour guide the entire time (Inside Japan also offers this option though), I would highly recommend considering Inside Japan.

Travelled with a friend to visit another friend from our school days who lives in Tokyo with her husband. We wanted to spend time with them and so chose Golden Week to start our holiday. Our travel company had lots of suggestions on how to plan our holiday so that we could spend time visiting with friends and travel too other areas. The brochure was really helpful in giving us ideas of potential travel areas as well as activities we might enjoy. The trip was planned very well. All information and guide/itinerary provided were structured and organised so that we were to travel fairly independently from city to city. It was well paced and offered structure to our journey but also enough downtime so we didn't feel overwhelmed or exhausted. We had activities included that added to the whole different culture experience, such as cooking classes in different cities. The whole experience, especially for myself, who had never travelled so far was superb.

The holiday was delayed, as were many peoples due to the covid pandemic. Despite this our travel company kept us informed and liaised with us regularly. We originally planned the holiday face to face in their offices, but once we were able to travel again and rebooked the holiday, we met via Zoom/Teams and found this extremely convenient. The planning and documentation provided have been brilliant. I honestly couldn't fault the company. They were able to arrange an extension of our final hotel due to a flight delay with BA meaning we didn't have to even change rooms. The supply of mobile devices were also very reliable and enabled us to keep in touch with everyone at home easily.

We chose to travel with Inside Japan as they took over the organising and planning that we didn't have much time to do ourselves. It meant that practically everything was arranged for when we arrived including travel tickets, wi-fi devices and accommodation so that we could just enjoy the holiday.

Inside Japan helped plan the itinerary, arrange transfers, accommodation and travel whilst in Japan that it was an invaluable service - as all of this was arranged when we arrived it meant we could relax and enjoy the experience.