Japan Travel Notes is an independent travel guide for first-time and repeat visitors to Japan. We publish day-by-day itineraries, cost breakdowns and practical tips, drawn from the official sites of the operators involved and from living in Japan. Every guide links to the official page so you can check the current price or timetable yourself.
Editor: Yuki, based in Osaka. Yuki is the pen name of the editor who runs this site; the photo on the guides is theirs. We are a small independent operation, not a travel agency, and we do not sell tours, rooms or passes.
We do not claim to have visited every place we write about. Where a figure comes from an operator’s own page we say so and link to it. If something here is wrong, tell us through the contact page and we will correct it and note the change.
How the guides are put together: How we research.