REVIEWS

Hard to sum up this wonderful experience. The culture of Japan is a wonderful thing. The art, the countryside, the buildings, the food, even the trains but mainly the people are what made Japan such an impactful experience.

Of course it helps when all the plans, flights, tickets and hotels fall into place. Sandy did a great job finding some truly memorable Onsen to stay and being so reassuring with practical advice. The whole thing couldn't have gone better.

Many thanks Sandy.

Japan is an amazing experience. Japan Travel centre were friendly and efficient, and helped us get the most from our relatively short time there. The arrangements worked like clockwork and the hotels were excellent. Even the driving was a pleasure (except perhaps the Tokyo ring road - but hey, what would you expect in a big city). The value of the car was being able to get a little bit of the beaten track so we saw some stunning cherry blossoms among other things. Takayama was simply delightful, and the splendour of Kyoto's temples match anything the big European cities have to offer.

The rail service is, as we expected, quick, comfortable and easy to use, and the ability to forward luggage to another hotel was invaluable.

We tried a couple of Japanese style hotels - which take service to a new level - and the food was simply superb.

I can't wait to return.

Many thanks to Kaoru, again, as this was the second holiday she'd helped me on. This was not just for finding well located hotels that suited me very well, but also for much v. useful advice regarding my planning of the trip - important for me, travelling solo & a non-speaker/reader of Japanese. The rail pass was excellent for convenience and still for me worth the money even though, for this trip, I suspect that it was marginal at best re cost saving. The Data sim was most useful too, especially for downloading map info - an important issue for me as I was several times "out in the sticks" and not in a free Wi-Fi area.

We were very happy with the service. Everything was great! Our travel advisor Sandy Lopez select great hotel for us. They where in good locations and have great rooms and service. She helped us to plan everything, bus tickets, tea ceremony and always advised on activities in the cities. Everything went smoothly. It was a great journey and we have very beautiful photos from our journey. 

Thank you.

Anna and Nicolas Dassler

Just want to thank Japan Travel Centre for organising our family holiday to Japan. JTC were so helpful in booking our tickets and planning the itinerary, tours and hotels with us. It was made so easy. The holiday lived up to our expectations. The hotels were clean and we had adjoining rooms for our children. The tours to Ghibli museum and Mt. Fuji were easy to get to and enjoyable. Thank you!

We made western Japan our honeymoon destination as this was going to be our second trip to Japan and we were keen to explore more of the country.

The Japan Travel team made the whole experience of planning a trip completely painless, they gave us plenty of options and asked lots of questions to ensure that our trip was as perfect as it could be.

The accommodation was probably the choice we were most happy about! Hotels were close to the station when we'd been travelling for a long time but more secluded when comfortable enough to be. Many of the places we stayed we would never have thought to book ourselves and our experience was much more 'Japanese' because of it - especially the food.

Wakako even came to meet us at our hotel to hand over our transport passes and greet us in person after we exchanged emails for nearly a year. We made a lot of changes to our original itinerary based on her knowledge - staying in Yufuin instead of Beppu for a quieter stay for example.

We're already planning our next trip!

I would like to thank everyone at Japan Travel Centre for arranging what was for us a fantastic holiday in Japan.

The holiday itself was made even more special as the Cherry Blossom in Tokyo was actually a week  late blooming, meaning it was in full bloom whilst we were there. Fantastic.

Initially when booking the holiday we were a little concerned about how meeting up with all the various travel reps would work whilst we were out in Japan. Let me assure you, If you are thinking about traveling to Japan, relax. I can not complement the staff in Japan enough, they were all very prompt and looked after everyone as well as could be expected. In fact their professionalism was second to none.

The tours were very good and the sights we saw gave us a great insight into Japan of old.

Thank you very much for everything.

Alan and Judy

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