Inside Travel Group Traveller Reviews

Inside Japan organized such a fantastic family holiday for us in Japan. It was our best holiday for many years! We loved all the extra experiences - the tatedo was a highlight for our two kids, as was the cycling in the countryside and the taiko drumming class! And the food! All the accommodation was excellent - we particularly liked the two ryokan and the townhouse we stayed in in Kyoto.

Our travel consultant made our trip so stress free. Everything was so well organized, all we had to do was enjoy the holiday! The choice of cities and towns to visit, the accommodation, and the detailed information provided in the guide were all excellent. We have already been recommending Inside Japan to friends and will be happy to continue to do so.

It was a holiday of a lifetime booked especially for our honeymoon. We visited Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka all superb in their own way. Tokyo was full of technology and neon lights, Kyoto was quiet and full of history and lastly Osaka was food heaven. Japan is clean, the people are polite and we never felt threatened once. Key moments; School children would approach us to practice their English, the shake of an earthquake one morning and the fantastic Japanese electric toilets. We would defiantly go again because we have only scratched the surface of this wonderful country.

Inside Japan tours provided plenty of information. They answered all questions quickly and the consultant was extremely knowledgeable. All in all, a very good experience.

Inside Japan helped us set up a self-guided mad dash from Osaka to Mt. Koya to the Kumano Kodo to Naoshima to Okayama to Kurashiki to Himeji to Nara to Kanasawa. Pilgrimage, paintings, pagodas, and every form of transportation. This enabled us to have a range of experience from Michelin starred meals in Osaka to picnics in the country, from 21st century art installations to early Buddhist statuary, from exquisite gardens to knitted toilet seat covers. Exhausting, but excellent!

Inside Japan gave us TONS of information, both general and very specific (which bus to catch when and where). They also helped us figure out just how much we could fit in and, for the one day we had a guide, found a very good one for us.

We visited a ton of different locations across Japan, including Tokyo, Kyoto, Kamakura, Hiroshima, Kumano Kodo, Osaka, Hakone, and Yunomine Onsen, among others. The trip was 18 days long, including a 13 day small group tour coordinated by Inside Japan Tours (IJT), and a 5 day self-guided tour planned by IJT. The trip was awesome and I was amazed by how many of the key sites of Japan we were able visit in those two and half weeks. I would definitely recommend taking such a trip if the possibility exists!

We purchased a Japan tour "basic" package from Inside Japan Tours (IJT), but there was nothing basic about it! The trip was phenomenal, well-coordinated, the food and lodging was awesome, and we had an absolutely fantastic tour leader who was extremely knowledgeable about Japan, its culture, and the language (which was particularly helpful for our visit!). I would highly recommend using IJT for any of the trips they offer - it was absolutely worth the money and was very fairly priced considering all of the places we were able to go to and the sites we were able to see!

We had an excellent two week trip to Japan organised by Inside Japan. The prepared itinerary was excellent and we were able to tailor it to make it perfect. Japan was amazing and we saw so many contrasting places. The hustle and bustle of Tokyo and Osaka, to the remoteness and tranquillity of Nikko and Takayama, to the humbling experience of Hiroshima, made the entire trip perfect.

Very friendly and helpful and their clear understanding of the locations meant we got the most out of our trip. The flexibility and tailoring was also excellent and the support and documentation both pre and during the trip was excellent. Would definitely recommend Inside Japan and would book with them again if we returned to Japan.

Our honeymoon trip with InsideVietnam was very good, we highly recommend InsideAsia tours to our friends who are planning on making a trip there too. We had a fully guided package in Vietnam, and we had some free time to explore on our own too. We started our tour from Hanoi, then moved onto a 2 day cruise in Halong Bay, and then went to Hue, Hoi An, Ho Chi Minh City and finally to the Mekong Delta. Our private transfers from one place to another were very good, our drivers were so friendly and knowledgeable too. The food we had out in Vietnam was excellent, and we highly recommend the Vespa street food tour in Ho Chi Minh City, it was such a treat. We had a great experience (hard to summarise everything here) and we don't think we would have been able to put such an excellent package together like that ourselves!

Our honeymoon trip with InsideVitenam was just fantastic. We had a hiccup going out with our outgoing flights being delayed getting into Hong Kong, and as a result we arrived into Hanoi in Vietnam 9 hours late. We were able to postponed our guided tour to the next day just on email and that was very convenient. All the transfers from one activity to another went very well and we were very well looked after. We were really spoiled on our honeymoon. Every hotel knew in advance that we were newly weds and decorated our room beautifully (with swans made out of towels, flower petals, balloons, etc) or offered us a free drink or lots of cake. The rooms were all very nice, all unique from place to place too. Being able to spend time at the spa hotel in Hoi An was an absolute treat.

This was a lifelong dream and it worked very well

Inside Jan Tours took Lots of care taken to elicit my preferences in advance, lots of info and good support in the country

We spent five glorious weeks exploring Japan on foot, by car, bus and train with the help of an outstanding travel company, InsideJapan. Staying at traditional guesthouses, rustic A frames, to posh hotels, we felt we experienced life in Japan as an insider, not just as a tourist. We were guided by local professionals, self guided and free to explore the myriad of places and restaurants, temples, shrines, gardens and waters of this magnificent country. The art, the history the real life was all to be seen during our visit and we are eager to return as we feel we have just scratched the surface. Thats what a good travel agent does for you: whets your appetite for even more!

Asking what we wanted to see, what we hoped to learn and experience before we left was vitally important in planning our trip. Recommendations of what we might enjoy, or opening our eyes to what we might not have considered was a great part of its success. Once there, we were equipped with all the tools we needed to maneuver our way around the country, and should we need any advice or assistance, the local office was open for us 24/7. We could not ask for more. It was perfect,

Lots and lots of transportation changes, bus to subway to train etc, all was extremely well organized. We saw a broad array of sights. Accomodations were very comfortable. Extremely interesting social customs were pointed out to us by our guide (the "pushers" or is it "shovers" on the subway; eating/restaurant etiquette; Buddhist and Shinto religious customs).

InsideJapan kept me up to date with the trip plans before we left. The tour guide was easy to talk to, knowledgeable, and extremely well organized.

Couldn't fault it

Very knowledgeable and responsive and provided excellent pre trip information