Bespoke · 2–8 travellers
The Private Season
The same craft as our group journeys, built around your people alone — your dates, your pace, your reasons. A honeymoon that skips nothing, a family trip three generations wide, a fortieth birthday with better ramen than the thirtieth.
An hour of good questions. Who's coming, what you love, what you fear (crowds? raw fish? free time?), and which Japan you're imagining. We take notes like it's a detective case.
A draft in ten days. Day-by-day, priced honestly, with alternates where your group might split — the teens to the arcade, the grandparents to the garden, everyone reunited for dinner.
A guide, if you want one. Fully guided, guided at the seams (arrivals, transfers, the tricky evenings), or self-led with our maps and our phone number. Most choose the seams.
The particulars
Honest numbers
- Party size
- 2 — 8 travellers
- Length
- 7 — 16 days, your call
- Seasons
- All four — we'll argue for our favourite
- From
- €6,800 for two, all-in design + ground
- Design fee
- €400, credited on booking
- Lead time
- 3+ months (6 for spring)
Every private route borrows the group journeys' spine — the vetted hotels, the tea master, the 6 a.m. counter — then bends it around your people. You get our forty journeys of notes without the other eleven travellers.
Start the conversation“Three generations, ten days, zero arguments — a family record. My father still refers to the knife shop as ‘my shop.’ My daughter is learning Japanese. Send help.”