A wide view of the Tokyo skyline at blue-hour twilight, the city glowing amber to the horizon.

Sample journeys

Three sketches of what we can arrange.

These are not products for sale. We work from one brief at a time, and each sketch shows what an advisor could assemble in Tokyo from the services we can arrange. Your agency designs the journey and sets the price. We quote and arrange the Japanese ground services you specify.

A narrow Tokyo back-alley (yokocho) after dark, red paper lanterns glowing over wet stone.

Example · 4 nights · Tokyo

Tokyo, Off the Record

The Tokyo that guidebooks do not reach: a private collection opened after closing, a sushi counter that keeps no public list, and a tea room your clients enter because we have vouched for them.

Day 1

A private arrival, then a chauffeured evening through the old shitamachi lanes with the guide who stays with your clients all week.

Day 2

A landmark collection is held open for a private hour after the doors close. The afternoon is spent with a craftsman whose workshop has no sign.

Day 3

Tea with a master in his own room. After dark, dinner at a kaiseki house that sets one menu a night, where the introduction has been made in advance.

Day 4

Nothing is scheduled. Your clients wake in a suite high over the city and leave when they choose.

A private open-air ryokan bath at dawn, steam rising, a silhouetted mountain range under a soft blue sky.

Example · 5 nights · Tokyo & Hakone / Mt. Fuji

Tokyo & the Mountain

Two nights in the capital, then a car south to a ryokan in sight of Fuji, with an onsen at dawn, kaiseki served in the room and a garden that is theirs alone.

Days 1–2

Tokyo at your clients’ pace: a market morning with a chef, a private gallery, and the tables this city does not list.

Day 3

A chauffeured transfer into the mountains, to a ryokan of a dozen rooms and a detached suite with its own open-air bath and the mountain in the window.

Day 4

A slow day between the water and the woods, with a tea house in the afternoon and dinner brought to the room course by course.

Day 5

Back in Tokyo by noon, with one last table held for lunch.

A contemporary Tokyo building detail catching warm champagne light against a deep twilight sky.

Example · 5 nights · Tokyo & the coast

Tokyo, Edo to Now

The temples of old Edo and the architecture of the new city, with a day on the Kamakura coast where a great hall is opened with the curator’s own key.

Day 1

Arrival, and a dusk walk through a private garden with the curator who keeps it.

Day 2

Old Edo, by introduction: a temple before the gates open, a sword polisher at his bench, and a sweet shop that still makes the shogun’s recipe.

Day 3

The coast at Kamakura by private car. A hall is unlocked for them alone, and lunch is at a house whose kitchen cooks for a single table a day.

Day 4

The new Tokyo: a private architecture tour, a contemporary collection, and an evening with a maker at the top of their craft.

Day 5

An unhurried final morning, with the departure timed to the minute.

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HANARE contracts only with travel businesses and never with travellers. Your client’s own advisor plans the journey, prices it and remains their point of contact throughout.

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