Tell us about you
Spend about five minutes telling Chikuni who is travelling, what matters to you, your pace, interests and the Japan you're imagining.
PRIVATE JOURNEY DESIGN · JAPAN
Your Japan.
Designed around you.
Not another list of places to visit. A considered journey shaped around how you actually want to experience Japan.
Start My Japan Journey →Begin with a complimentary personal Journey Outline.
A DIFFERENT WAY TO PLAN JAPAN
You don't need more recommendations.
You need the right ones.
Japan can be overwhelming to plan. Thousands of hotels. Endless restaurants. Conflicting advice. Everyone telling you where you “must” go.
Chikuni starts somewhere else: with you.
Tell us what matters, how you like to travel and what you've imagined Japan might feel like. We'll use real local knowledge, thoughtful judgment and intelligent technology to propose a journey that fits.
“Sometimes our most valuable recommendation will simply be:
Don't do that.
Travel better by doing less — but choosing well.”
HOW IT BEGINS
Your journey starts before
you arrive in Japan.
We think about your Japan
We look beyond the obvious route and consider where your time — and your money — will make the greatest difference.
Receive your personal outline
We'll send our first proposal: the route we'd recommend, how we'd divide your time, why we've made those choices, and a few ideas selected specifically for you.
NOT A GENERIC ITINERARY
A proposal,
not a prescription.
We'll make a clear recommendation because that's what you're asking us to do. But it's your journey.
If something doesn't excite you, we change it. If there's something you've always dreamed of doing, we build around it.
Chikuni gives you direction without taking away the pleasure of discovery.
CHIKUNI INSIDER
The details that change
the whole experience.
When to go. When not to go. Whether a private car is really easier. When to forward your luggage. Where we'd spend more — and where we wouldn't.
The things you probably wouldn't know to ask are often the things that make travelling in Japan effortless.
WHY CHIKUNI
Japan, from
the inside.
Chikuni grew from decades of living and working in Japan — not observing it from overseas.
Technology helps us research, remember and personalize. But technology isn't what we're selling.
Judgment is.
We believe the best journey isn't the one with the most reservations. It's the one where every important decision feels right.
YOUR JAPAN STARTS HERE
Tell us what you've
been imagining.
We'll take it from there.
Start My Japan Journey →Complimentary personal Journey Outline · No obligation