The pioneering operator of walking tours in Japan, Walk Japan have been providing the best planned, the best led and most fulfilling and enjoyable guided and self-guided tours available in Japan since 1992. Their guided tours not only provide valuable local insight, small groups of maximum 12 people, and active tours to varying degrees, they offer deeply unique experiences.
Walk Japan tours offer more than sightseeing; they are an invitation to experience Japan intimately and authentically.
Since 1992 with their innovative and bestselling Nakasendo Way tour, Walk Japan have created a host of original tours throughout Japan, exploring all corners of the country in different ways.
Walk Japan’s Onsen Gastronomy tours are gourmet and luxurious, while still down to earth. While these tours have minimal walking, much care has been taken to ensure a deep experience of the exquisite scenery.
Where possible, the Onsen Gastronomy tours feature visits to locally owned and operated restaurants, breweries and artisanal shops. Traditional crafts are often featured, including lacquerware, ceramics and indigo silk.
Onsen Gastronomy Tour: Kiso in Nagano
Available all year-round, this new easy walking tour in rural Nagano Prefecture has a strong emphasis on onsen thermal hot springs and Japanese gastronomy.
Enjoy the Kiso in Nagano 5-day/4-night gentle guided walk through picturesque rural towns and villages set in a lushly verdant valley and on a high plateau with a towering volcano as a continual backdrop.
Light walking combined with plentiful onsen hot spring baths and sumptuous cuisine is what you can expect from Kiso in Nagano. Accommodation is in lovely modern Japanese inns. Good for those wanting gentle walking, restorative travel, wellness, religious history and gourmet experiences.
Self-guided tour: Izu Wayfarer
A self-guided tour organised by Walk Japan offers a wonderful balance of independence, flexibility, and authentic cultural immersion.
Available from March to June, Izu Wayfarer is a new self-guided tour. Over 6 days and 5 nights, the tour explores the extraordinarily rich geology and history of the Izu Peninsula.
Over millions of years, volcanic activity and the movement of tectonic plates have created the peninsula’s attractive and unique landscape. This, combined with the epoch-making historic connections to the West and warmly welcoming locals, make Izu an enjoyable destination.
Good for those keen on flexible travel, international history, volcanic geography, literature and culture, and local seafood.
Samurai & Onsen: Tohoku Aizu Explorer
The 7-day/6-night Tohoku Aizu Explorer is a guided, moderate walk available in May in the historic Aizu district centred on Aizu-Wakamatsu. The tour includes explorations of several old highways, once walked by samurai warriors, connecting to the city of Aizu-Wakamatsu, the evocatively rustic Ouchi-juku post town, beautiful Showa-mura village, and Urabandai’s lake district.
Accommodation is in modern Japanese inns with Japanese cuisine and onsen thermal hot spring baths. Good for those wanting to explore samurai history, historic villages, ancient highways, onsen bathing, and lesser-known destinations.
Saga and Nagasaki: Cultural Crossroads
Available year round, this exciting new 10-day fully guided journey follows gentle paths by the sea, and through rural countryside and into inspiring Nagasaki City. Enjoy Japan’s warm hospitality and wonderful regional cuisine, and luxuriate in onsen hot spring baths.
Follow the path of ancient Chinese merchants, Portuguese missionaries, Dutch traders and English adventurers who came here seeking the patronage of samurai warlords. Saga and Nagasaki are also celebrated for highly prized porcelain, green tea, beautifying onsen hot spring waters, inspired cuisine, and Madame Butterfly.
Nagasaki, which was founded by the Portuguese, is one of Japan’s most cosmopolitan and vibrant cities, despite the destruction wrought on it in 1945.
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