Discover Japan

It’s no secret that Japan has a stunning amount of beauty. From the lavender fields of Furano in Hokkaido and down to the crystal clear beaches of Okinawa...

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Route of any complexity

Route of Any Complexity

There are so many wonderful places to visit and discover in this fabulous Country! We are here to assist you in creating Your Very Own Custom Designed Tour!

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Your Personal Japan Guide

Your Personal Japan Guide

After living overseas for more than 10 years, Yoko founded My Japan Guide in 2013 and she has since been providing service and creating ties with local people that can ...

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Promoting Local Businesses

Promoting Local Businesses

We offer unique and original Japan walking tours, our guides will take you into the heart of vibrant Japan to explore where traditional and modern culture coexist in unity

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Mount Fuji

Mount Fuji

Kyoto

Kyoto

Tokyo

Tokyo

Niigata

Niigata

Sapporo

Sapporo


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Prefecture in Focus: Tottori

Top attractions in Mount Fuji

Mount Fuji (富士山, Fujisan) is with 3776 meters Japan's highest mountain. It is not surprising that the nearly perfectly shaped volcano has been worshiped as a sacred mountain and experienced big popularity among artists and common people throughout the centuries.

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Featured Neighborhood: Kyoto’s Arashiyama

Over the centuries, Kyoto was destroyed by many wars and fires, but due to its exceptional historic value, the city was dropped from the list of target cities for the atomic bomb and escaped destruction during World War II. Countless temples, shrines and other historically priceless structures survive in the city today.

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Featured Neighborhood: Kyoto’s Arashiyama

Today top places to visit

Nagoya

Nagoya

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Nagoya developed as the castle town of the Owari, one of the three branches of the ruling Tokugawa family during the Edo Period. Much of the city, including most of its historic buildings, were destroyed in the air raids of 1945.

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Niigata

Niigata

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Niigata is located along the coast of the Sea of Japan in the Chubu Region. It is famous for its high quality rice, beautiful coastal and mountainous sceneries, spectacular firework displays in summer, skiing in winter and hot spring bathing around the year. The prefectural capital is Niigata City.

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Osaka

Osaka

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Osaka was formerly known as Naniwa. Before the Nara Period, when the capital used to be moved with the reign of each new emperor, Naniwa was once Japan's capital city, the first one ever known.

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Saitama

Saitama

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Saitama is a major city within half an hour by train north of Tokyo. The city was newly formed in 2001 with the merger of Urawa, Omiya and other municipalities.

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Ueno

Ueno

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Ueno Park is a large public park next to Ueno Station in central Tokyo. The park grounds were originally part of Kaneiji Temple, which used to be one of the city's largest and wealthiest temples and a family temple of the ruling Tokugawa clan during the Edo Period.

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Tokyo

Tokyo

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Tokyo is Japan's capital and the world's most populous metropolis. It is also one of Japan's 47 prefectures, consisting of 23 central city wards and multiple cities, towns and villages west of the city center.

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