Japan Tours in December 2026

Although busy, the itinerary gave us an excellent overview of all that Japan has to offer - history, shrines/temples, gardens and the contrast between traditional and modern Japan. At the same time there were opportunities to follow up our own interests and explore by ourselves. Our guide, Henrik, was brilliant - nothing was too much trouble, he cared for our welfare and was very knowledgeable about history, customs etc. He always offered options for our free time and/or made suggestions and guided us to find our own way when that was our preference. Explore made a point of using public transport wherever possible so we experienced a range of different types - Henrik was always on hand to lead or guide us so that we navigated the system and ticketing with ease.

Genuinely it was awesome. Guide spoke really good English and Spanish (our group was mixed). She even warned us about entrance lines, how to avoid crowds. Hotel in Osaka was central, we walked to Dotonbori at night. They left little luxuries—like a funicular ride, boat cruise, cable car. We didn’t worry about anything logistical, very comforting at our age to have hassle-free transfers and everything being ready beforehand.

Honestly our guide Matt made this trip! I have been on plenty of group tours before and have had all different guides before and Matt absolutely killed this tour! Our group was amazing! Japan was amazing! The whole trip was amazing! I highly recommend intro

Japan 2024 - What a fantastic trip, Japan was full of culture/history and just a wonderful country to visit, Matt our guide was amazing, he had a lot of knowledge and answered any questions and overall a really fun guy. Would highly recommended doing the Japan trip with intro! I will definitely be booking a future trip!!

It was amazing, our guide Ken Reigetsu made it so special and added another level to each site we visited with his knowledge and experiences. He was so passionate about everything he spoke of and we all could really feel that and how much he loved his job and his country. He is definitely the best guide ever and was so blessed to have him as my guide and if I ever come back, I want him and only him to be my guide again. He always dressed up specifically for the subject of each day for Sendai, he dressed up as Date Masamune and for Hakodate, he dressed up as Shinsengumi, etc. and that was a very special and exciting touch he gave. He was just so fun to have and really knew how to entertain all the clients and we had a blast Awesome guide, awesome tour, awesome group, I couldn’t have asked for a better guide. Thank you all so much and please give Ken Reigetsu my best regards

Our expectation have been fullfilled, very intensive trip Little pour time management in mainly spanish groups /guides Satisffiying to hear from some guides stories behind the story, emotional moments about history specially with Rey/Ken