Private journeys, thoughtfully arranged.
One car. One licensed guide. Your day.
✓ Licensed & Insured ✓ English Speaking Guide ✓ 24/7 Support
Modern, clean vehicles for a relaxed and premium journey.
Experienced, English-speaking local guide at your service.
Flexible itinerary. Your places, your pace, your way.
Reliable airport pickups, transfers & layover tours.
A private day in Japan, shaped around you.
JANOJAPAN plans private tours and airport transfers around a comfortable private vehicle and a licensed, English-speaking guide. Your day stays flexible — your places, your pace, your way.
Private tours in Tokyo & beyond
Every journey is private and fully customisable. Prices are per group, not per person — bring up to six.
A private journey to Mount Fuji, designed around your day — with a private car, English-speaking driver-guide, and a carefully paced itinerary.
A private journey through Nikko's UNESCO heritage, mountain landscapes, and waterfalls — with your own vehicle and English-speaking driver-guide.
The Great Buddha and the hillside temples of the old capital, then the coast road to the island shrine and sea caves of Enoshima.
A slower Nikko — a proper look at Toshogu and its quieter neighbour Taiyuinbyo, the thunder of Kegon Falls, and the still water and back-country trails around Lake Chuzenji.
Turn your time between flights into a private Tokyo experience — with airport pickup, comfortable transportation, and your own English-speaking driver-guide.
A caldera of hot springs and art museums, the sulphur valley of Owakudani, and the red torii standing in Lake Ashi below Mount Fuji.
Also arranged on request: the Nagano snow monkeys, and custom multi-day routes — tell us the day you're imagining and we'll build the plan and the price around it.
Government-certified guide-interpreters. Fully insured vehicles and public liability cover.
Cancel up to 24 hours before for a full refund of your deposit. Dates move freely.
A small deposit holds your date and guide. Balance by card a few days before you travel.
Card payments encrypted end to end. JANOJAPAN never sees or stores your card number.
The person planning your day is the person answering your messages — before, during and after.
Japan's benchmark private-hire minivan — late-model, immaculately kept, climate-controlled. Child seats and mobility needs arranged in advance.
Government-certified guides who drive — no language barrier, no second vehicle, no hand-offs.
One price per group. Tolls, parking and guide fees included. 20% reserves the date, balance before you travel.
Pick a tour and a date, or tell us what you're drawn to — temples, hikes, food, photography.
Book online in a minute — a 20% deposit by card holds your date and guide. Free cancellation up to 24 hours before.
We confirm the plan with you over WhatsApp or email and adjust it freely before the day.
Collected from your hotel or the airport. The 80% balance is settled a few days before — nothing to handle on the day.
One private group per guide, per day — October–November and cherry-blossom weeks book out weeks ahead.
Tell us when you're coming and we'll point the day at what's best right then.
Blossom at Kawaguchiko and Kamakura; cool, clear mornings for Fuji.
Deep-green Nikko, waterfalls in full flow, cool highland air at Oku-Nikko.
Koyo colour through the Irohazaka switchbacks and Hakone's valleys.
Snow monkeys in Nagano, crisp Fuji views, fewer crowds everywhere.
Drag to explore →
A live feed of verified reviews — nothing here is written by us.
From hotel pickup to drop-off our guide was warm, punctual and genuinely knowledgeable. The car was spotless, and when the morning turned to rain he quietly reordered the day so we saw Toshogu in the dry and Kegon Falls once it cleared. Never rushed. Worth every yen.
We booked privately after a poor coach experience elsewhere — completely different. Our guide-driver knew exactly where Fuji would be clearest at each hour and got us ahead of every tour bus. Booking and the 20% deposit were simple and secure.
Three generations, ages 7 to 74, and everyone was looked after. Flexible pace, a lunch recommendation we still talk about, and help with the wheelchair at every stop. Messages over WhatsApp before the trip were fast and reassuring.
Your private vehicle and fuel, an English-speaking licensed guide-driver for the whole day, and all tolls and parking. Entry tickets, meals and hotel pickup outside central Tokyo are quoted separately.
Up to 6 guests in one vehicle, and the price is per group — not per person. You are never grouped with strangers.
No payment is needed to request a quote. Once you're happy, 20% reserves your date and guide. The 80% balance is due a few days before the tour. Everything is handled by card through Stripe.
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the tour for a full refund of your deposit. Inside 24 hours we will always try to move your date instead.
Still unsure? Message us on WhatsApp — we usually reply within the hour.
Short field guides we send our own guests before they travel.
How many days you actually need in Tokyo, plus which day trips — Nikko, Mount Fuji, Kamakura, Hakone — are worth the drive and how to fit them in without wasting a day on the road.
Read the guide →
The Nikko koyo season explained week by week — when autumn colour peaks on the Irohazaka switchbacks, Kegon Falls and Lake Chuzenji, and how to beat the traffic that comes with it.
Read the guide →
How to photograph Japan's snow monkeys at Jigokudani — timing, the walk in, the lens that actually works at the pool, and monkey etiquette, from a guide who goes every winter.
Read the guide →