A New Travel Concept

Enjoy Your Choice of Rewarding, Stimulating, Personalized Experiences

Secrets of Japan has been thoughtfully developed with a keen understanding for what offers joy and a deep sense of travel fulfillment.

Here we present choices of possible activities in the three regions we visit. These options are a mere sampling of what’s possible. Simply ask and your itinerary will be custom-tailored for you. Whatever the reason, whatever the request, we are committed to ensuring your experience is extraordinary.

Some of many Tokyo options you can enjoy:

Take a class on health and longevity, with tips for anti-aging, weight loss, and healthful walking.
See futuristic designs at the Panasonic Living Showroom.
See offices of the future, with gardens, waterfalls, and crops inside an office space.
Learn to make sushi with a master chef.
Visit the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
Browse the dazzling food halls of Ginza’s high-end department stores.
Visit the high-tech world of pop culture at Akihabara.
Hear innovative music technologies at Yamaha.
Visit the world’s largest fish market with hundreds of unique species.
Enjoy cocktails made by the “Best Bartender in the World.”
See sumo wrestlers (if available—they travel throughout the world!).
Enjoy sophisticated and traditional Japanese cuisine.
Travel on Tokyo’s famous subway system, and feel the energy of the city.
Explore the pulsing nightlife of Tokyo.
Have a fun casual meal at an “izakaya”—popular happy hour establishments where Japanese people go to relax.

Some of many Kyushu Island options you can enjoy:

See the active Mount Aso volcano and the beautiful surrounding countryside.
Relax in your own private guesthouse with an outdoor hot spring.
Rest in a charming traditional Japanese inn that was formerly a Buddhist retreat.
Enjoy healthy, delicious, and beautiful kaiseki dinners.
Learn how to make rice paper; dye clothing with indigo; or enjoy making glass or chopsticks.
Learn the Buddhist secret to a happy life.
Take a lesson in Zen meditation, or calligraphy, or observe a fire ritual demonstration.
Join a Shinto priest as he explains his religion at a small shrine.
Learn Japanese gardening techniques while touring a garden.
Visit a honey bee farm.
Visit a small rural school and enjoy interacting with the students.
See a “zoo” of bonsai trees (seeing is believing!).
Enjoy a lunch of freshly made buckwheat noodles (soba).
Visit a small sake brewery.

Some of many Kyoto options you can enjoy:

Ride the Shinkansen high speed train across the stunning countryside from Kyushu to Kyoto.
See the kimono-clad ladies of the Gion geisha district.
Take a calligraphy or ikebana class with a master in a private home.
Try your hand at Japanese home cooking (it isn’t sushi!) with a Japanese housewife in her home.
Be photographed in a beautiful kimono.
Take a day excursion to Nara to see the world’s largest wooden building.
Stay overnight in a Buddhist monastery.
Learn the art of furoshiki cloth wrapping.
See an origami paper folding demonstration, and learn to make a crane.
Enjoy Japanese shiatsu massage.
Shop for rare woodblock prints, Japanese antiques, green tea, pottery, and more.
Experience an authentic Japanese tea ceremony.
Learn to make traditional Japanese sweets.