Your tailor-made
journey through Japan
Individual travel planning by specialists in Japan — in English.
We know Japan
because we live here.
A journey through Japan is more than a list — it is a question of trust. Who advises you, what they know, how they translate it for you.
Japan Privat is a Japan-based travel designer for individual journeys through Japan, guiding you in English. Our team has lived here for more than ten years and plans individual stays for travellers from Europe — from the first conversation to the last evening, all personal, all in English.
Our strength is not size, but depth. We know houses that are not listed online. Routes printed in no guidebook. And while you travel, we are reachable around the clock — in the rain, when plans change, when a sudden idea arrives.
In English
Pieces to read,
from our travel practice — if you like.
Japan Independent Travel 2026 — The complete guide to a journey made to measure.
Best season, routes, places to stay, costs and planning – the complete overview that ties all our travel topics together. This is where your independent journey through Japan begins.
Rainy Season & Typhoons in Japan 2026 — Hydrangea temples and honest advice for the green season.
Tsuyu sounds grey and humid – and is still one of the loveliest times to travel. Hydrangeas, quiet temples, and what you should know about typhoons.
Summer in Japan 2026 — Festivals, fireworks and honest advice for the hot season.
Matsuri, hanabi fireworks and Obon – Japan's summer is hot and humid, but culturally the most intense time of the year. With honest advice on the heat, on when to travel and on climbing Mt. Fuji.
What a Japan Trip Costs — Comfort, Private, Atelier — three budget ranges.
Exchange rates, the JR Pass, small houses and grand ones. What you should really budget for your individual journey through Japan in 2026.
Cherry Blossom in Japan 2027 — Best time to travel, places and honest planning.
The cherry blossom is Japan’s most beautiful and at the same time most difficult travel season to plan. Average blossom dates by region, the principle behind the cherry blossom front and honest advice on timing and booking — with long-term averages instead of invented forecasts.
Matcha & Tea in Japan — The tea ceremony, the sweets and the best tea to take home.
The matcha boom, the tea ceremony in Uji, green tea and its varieties, sweet specialities and how to buy genuine Uji matcha. With prices, insider tips and advice in English.
What travellers tell us afterwards.
It was not a journey, it was a bookmark in our lives. We have rarely felt so well cared for — and so discreetly.
We wanted Kyoto. We were given a morning with a monk, an afternoon with a potter and three days we still think about.
What Japan Privat showed us, we would never have found on our own. And certainly not in such stillness.
No plan was fixed; every day felt personal. A rare form of luxury — time.
Four quiet steps —
no catalogue, no clicking.
A first letter
You write us a few lines about what you are looking for. A shape, a mood, a season. We reply within two working days — personally, not automatically.
A conversation
We speak on the phone in English, once, for forty to sixty minutes. Our part is to listen. We want to understand who you travel with, and why you are coming to Japan at all.
Your itinerary
Within two weeks we design your personal itinerary — the sequence of days, the houses, the gardens, the people. We adjust it as often as it takes until it reads right.
The journey
While you are here we are reachable by phone — in the rain, when plans change, when a sudden idea arrives. What lies ahead of you is not a programme. It is Japan.
Tell us
what you are looking for.
We take time for every enquiry, personally. Write us a few lines — we usually reply within two working days.
Guidance in English