I had a blast in Japan thanks to Japan Deluxe Tours. They made the process very easy to understand and even helped me out when I messed up scheduling my flights back home. The tour guide was very friendly and easy to chat with. The tour package was excellent and we did everything that was included in the package. I never felt rushed at any of the stops and had a blast on our free day thanks to our guide carefully explaining the train system. I would highly recommend this tour to anyone visiting Japan. It was my first time going and Japan Deluxe Tours made it a very fun and memorable experience.

Our first time to Japan and we loved it! We had a great guide and we spent a sufficient time in each area. Our experience was so great that we are already saving up for our next trip!

Best trip ever! Thoroughly enjoyed this tour. The staff was responsive & helpful. Our tour guide Kyle was awesome, professional, knowledgeable & kind. I would like to visit Japan again in the near future & highly recommend this tour company to my friends & family. Thank you for the wonderful memories!

I absolutely loved my time in Japan. For anyone who wants to go, I definitely reccomend using Japan Deluxe Tours. There were no issues and everything was taken care of, making it a relaxing, stress-free trip. Unless you are fluent in Japanese or understand where to go/how transportation works, use a group like this to book your trip.

Accommodations were excellent. Guides were superb. Majority of places visited were appropriate to get an idea of the people and culture of Japan. Riding the Bullit train was interesting and a highlight for those who have not had such experience elsewhere. Some places like the Shibuya Crossing and Tsukiji Fish Market could be substituted for a visit to Akibara and Uneo Park, for example. Pick up on arrival was not acceptable. Driver should meet passengers outside the arrival hall with a sign in hand bearing passenger names and Japan Deluxe Tours. Waiting outside is not useful for someone unfamiliar with the Japanese language. Driver should speak a common international language, such as English, French, or Spanish. Our driver was not able to communicate in any of these languages. This beginning of the trip spolied the excellent services that followed and should addressed by Japan Deluxed Tours immediately to improve comfort of travelers.

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We booked our summer vacation with JDT soon after Japan announced it will open up to foreign tourism post-Covid, and this was despite having no recent reviews on the tour company we could rely on.

The JDT tour itinerary we selected was excellent and exceeded our expectations for our family, which included a college age student and a 12 year old. There was a wide array of sightseeing and activities covering every interest of our family, including anime sites and shopping, popular cultural sites, and entertainment activities (Universal Studios Japan, ninja demonstration, rickshaw tour, and geisha show). Some days included lunch or dinner, and this covered a good breadth of what Japanese cuisine has to offer. The driver was good and we can't say enough about our guide (Hiro) who was very friendly, informative and helped ensure that even our time to explore Japan outside the tour hours went smoothly.

This was a group tour and we found all the other group members to be very friendly, many of whom shared our interests for anime and all of us were new visitors to Japan. This was our first trip to Japan and we can thank JDT for making the experience very memorable for our family.

My tour was for AnimeJapan 2023. It was the best trip I've ever had and I know I'll return again to Japan in the future. Everything was above and beyond my expectations! Our Tour guides were very knowledgeable and spoke excellent English. I loved every moment of the trip. The only downside I can mention, is that you go to so many places and only wish you had more time. Average of 2 or so hours at each location (30 travelers per group). That said, it's not a bad thing, I got to sample all that Japan had to offer! The food was so much tastier than anything I could find here in the USA. Honestly, the trip started when I got to my first flight as they serve you Japanese meals. I highly recommend Japan Deluxe Tours! Wish I could give you all more stars.

My husband and I used Japan Deluxe Tours for our honeymoon and we had a wonderful experience. We had a private tour and it was so worth the money. We made friends with our guides and got to ask more questions and go to more places that we really wanted to see. The hotels were fantastic and transportation was easy with our guide. My husband and I can't wait to come back to Japan and would definitely book with them again with our friends!

I can't say enough good things about my experience with Japan Deluxe Tours! My husband and I originally booked a tour for April 2020, which of course we ended up not being able to take due to COVID. Japan Deluxe Tours not only gave us a full voucher to rebook our trip once Japan reopened to tourists, they worked some kind of magic on their end to get our airline to refund us 2/3 the cost of our airline tickets, when the airline was originally telling us that they would not refund us at all. Japan Deluxe Tours continued to be extremely helpful and communicative as we waited for Japan's borders to reopen, and finally, we were able to rebook our trip for this past month (March 2023). Leading up to the trip, we again had lots of helpful communication and all our questions answered. (Especially by Marie, who we got to meet in person during our trip!) Once we actually went on the trip, my husband and I just kept saying to each other over and over how glad we were that we decided to book with Japan Deluxe Tours rather than trying to do a trip to Japan on our own. They made sure everything was taken care of, and that everything went so efficiently and smoothly. Every day was jam packed full of things to see and do, to ensure we made the very most of our time in Japan. We visited Tokyo, Hakone, Kyoto, and Nara, and can happily say that we crossed off all our "must-do" things in all of those places, plus so many additional things on top of that! Our guides, Hiro and Yumi, were absolutely wonderful. They went above and beyond to ensure we made the most out of each day, understood the history and cultural significance of what we were seeing, and overall just had an amazing time! And they are also both personable, funny, great people. We also spent a day with Yoshi as our guide, and really enjoyed him as well. And we had a great driver, Koji, who we are also very thankful to have met. I would highly recommend Japan Deluxe Tours to anyone who is considering visiting Japan. I look forward to booking a tour with them again in the future!

I would definitely recommend Japan Deluxe Tours, they were very helpful and kept me up-to-date on the details of my tour!

The tour was great! It was my third trip to Japan, and my first with this company. They were very professional, the accommodations were comfortable and convenient. Our assigned tour guide, Sasayama Michiko, did an excellent job.

Our tour was absolutely amazing! We did the Golden Route from Kyoto to Tokyo and extended one day in Tokyo. The hotels were all wonderful and very comfortable, with amazing breakfasts. Everyone was very helpful and kind at the hotels (Rihga Gran Kyoto, Ryokufuso, and Tobu Hotel Levant). Our tour guide, Yayoi, was absolutely the best. She was so endlessly kind and patient, and she provided so much knowledge the entire trip. Overall it was truly the trip of a lifetime. Among all the amazing sights and foods, these were the highlights for our tour: the Nara deer, the Fushimi Inari shrine, Hakone Open Air Museum, Owakudani valley gondola, and the Tsukiji fish market (we had amazing melon, ichigo daifuku, grilled unagi, and maguro nigiri). We appreciated having a free day built into the tour because not all the sights around the city would appeal to an entire group. We loved getting a preview of Shinjuku, Harajuku and Shibuya with the tour so we could orient ourselves for our free days. Unfortunately visiting in mid-October, we were slightly too early for peak fall colors, but the autumn weather was clear and gorgeous for walking around. We had a spot of trouble when getting an airport transfer on arrival at Osaka (Itami) airport. I would recommend getting a clearer map and directions to the pick up spot ahead of time because the spot was very difficult to find with our limited Japanese, and there seemed to be miscommunication between the tour agency and the taxi company. But after finding them, the entire tour went smoothly from there, including our departure transfer. I will say that we enjoyed experiencing traditional culture in Kyoto first, then ending in Tokyo. We did have to stick to timelines while wandering each stop and we did end up having to hustle to make sure we made it back in time. So if you want to take things very leisurely and see every single nook and cranny at every stop, then it might not be the best choice. However, I personally would 10/10 recommend this tour group since I still had plenty of time at most places to see and shop to my heart's content (with the exception of the Hakone Open Air Museum, which I would recommend speeding through most of quickly since there is just so much to see, we were absolutely in love with the Symphonic Sculpture!). We felt wonderfully taken care of, and Yayoi-san was seriously the best! I can't wait to go back!

We thought this tour was EPIC and exactly what we wanted. We would book again and look forward to doing other tours with Japan Deluxe.

Takayama Fall Festival Tour:
A little bit of everything -Japan edition.
Urban, rural, natural, historical, culture, taste. Art to gardens, castles, ramen, museums, onzen!
Each day was a new adventure and we felt honored to see many of the places we visited. Beautiful places - well cared for. Pride of the Japanese. Even though it was sometimes crowded, we never felt like tourists.
Our guide Hide-san was an invaluable resource, kept and efficent schedule, and was very pleasant.
This is a highly booked tour with a tight schedule.
(We still highly recommend it and trust the guides to give you an awesome experience. But there is not a lot of free time. Some people tried to see friends in Japan and that was very difficult to accomplish.)
The accommodations are booked for you, everything is clean, and we were well taken care of.
You will get everything you need, and MORE. Japanese service is impeccable.
Dont try to micromanage them or this trip. Just go. And they will create a magical Japanese experience for you.

After two years, Japan finally opened in July and the tour company called me right away. With the new change for what was required to enter Japan it was a difficult process with paperwork, applying Visa cards, and getting vaccines. The tour company people were very helpful and patient with me as I was asking a lot of questions and concerns.

After all was set and done, I began my Japan Anime theme tour with my friend and it was an amazing experience!!! 9 days in three different cities (Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka). We enjoyed the shrines, the shopping and special tour attractions like the Studio Ghibli museum and Universal Studio Japan. I personally like to thank our tour guides on the trip that were very knowledgeable of Japan as well as helpful when asking our questions.

After a difficult time during Covid, Japan Deluxe Tours helped me achieve my wish for a very long time. I'm very satisfied with this tour company and when things have settled down with Covid and fewer restrictions, I like to do another tour again in the future.

Where is the best place you visit in this tour?
-Itchiko Kubota exhibition
What is the best experisence you had in Japan?
-Eating lunch in Tokushima, Indigo dyeing class
Is there any place you want to visit next time?
-Nara, more time at JR station in Kyoto
Comments
-I really Liked most everything.

Where is the best place you visit in this tour?
-Quilt Show
What is the best experisence you had in Japan?
-Dinner with Maiko
Is there any place you want to visit next time?
-Nara

Where is the best place you visit in this tour?
-Kimono Museum
What is the best experisence you had in Japan?
-So Many!
Is there any place you want to visit next time?
-I would come back for art museum

Where is the best place you visit in this tour?
-Kubota Art Museum
What is the best experisence you had in Japan?
-I loved the dining experience in Kyoto. Maiko was lovely and food was great!
Is there any place you want to visit next time?
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Where is the best place you visit in this tour?
-Kanazawa and Golden Pavilion, also Nara, Edo Tokyo Museum, Tokyo National Museum
What is the best experisence you had in Japan?
-Shibori dye, and Tokyo Quilt Show
Is there any place you want to visit next time?
-I recomend an extra day in Kyoto, with 1/2 day of free time.
Comments
-I liked this whole tour a lot! I would really like to return and do a golden tour in month of may in a future year.