REVIEWS

The whole holiday was excellent. Japan Travel Centre were extremely helpful and found us accommodation in central locations with friendly staff and at great rates. The Ryokans were truly a great cultural experience. Japan is beautiful and there is so much to see. It has an impressive transport system and the JR Pass was a bonus. People were friendly and the food was beautifully presented. A holiday we will never forget.

We enjoyed all of our stay from the kind, friendly and humble people to the numerous shrines,temples,castles and other touristic sites.
The 7 day Japan rail pass was good value with added RED bus travel in Hiroshima. We traveled independently but were late for the Cherry blossom season, but will definitely do the Autumn colors next year.
There were so many highlights but these were the main ones.
Mount Fuji and Hakone tour,Tokyo morning tour and evening hinode pier dinner cruise, Skytree and Tokyo tower,Fish Market, Hirajuku, Ueno park and Museums, Imperial palace and gardens, bullet train journey to Hiroshima city, bomb museum then dinner at sushi tei, picturesque Miyajima, Himeji castle and In Kyoto Philosophers path,Bamboo path,The Fushimi Inari Tori gates,Gion night walking tour and in Nara the deer park. In Osaka the Namba district along the canal followed by sky walk in Ueda. The Japanese culture and Shinto/Buddhism religions and last but not least the sake wine.

Our tour was organised by Sandy from Japan Travel Center. 
She was very kind and patients and always willing to go the extra mile.
We where a group of 8 people with different requerimements regarding food and also health issues and Miss Lopez was very good a sorting out all the requests.
We also wanted a private tour to Mount Fuji and to stay at the traditional Ryokan to celebrate my birthday. Well the Mount Fuji was the high lite of the trip. It was organised to perfection. From the transport to the tour guide to the most amazing BBQ.
Kyoto was also a plesent surprise one of the most amazing cities we saw in Japan.
The hotels were very good and the choice of restaurants for breakfast was just excellent.
We are very happy to recommend The Japan Travel Center and we are looking forwards to take a second holiday in this incredible country.

We enjoyed all of the above. Every day was a new experience. 
Our one disappointment was that Mount Fuji was cloud-covered on the day we visited. We'll just have to go back to japan to see it.
The itinerary worked out for us was perfect. it included all the things I knew about and wanted to see and many surprises - big and small. 
We did 3 organised excursions but mostly guided ourselves and the advance information we were given was both accurate and helpful.
Japan is an exciting mix of ancient traditions and beliefs and modern architecture and technology. 
We loved people-watching, as there were many Japanese tourists visiting the sites for the cherry blossom season.
There is a wide variety of food - fast and slow. A taste treat every time. And everywhere the service is outstanding.
Of course the trains are amazing - the busiest train stations in the world, the fastest trains and the most attentive staff - and all running precisely to time.
This was truly the holiday of a lifetime.
Thank you Japan Travel Centre.

Cherry Blossom time is a great time of the year to visit- smells are wonderful from hundreds of trees, great to see local people celebrating this time.
Transport links for city and in fact country wide excellent. JR pass invaluable. Historical sites and shrines wonderful some amazing carved and bronze Buddhas, large and small shrines all had something to offer.Food was great and interesting, thank goodness for picture menus. Japanese accommodation and service and hotel food was wonderful not to be missed! Hiring a car was interesting, thank goodness for English satnav, gave us freedom to explore the coastal regions found a cafe called Ripple overlooking a beach food and views great,but overall The Japanese were extremely welcoming and courteous people. An experience not to be missed - unanimous by all 7 of us in the party. Would call this an adventure not just a holiday.

Would recommend Japan travel agency. I dealt with a member of staff named Sandy who was extremely helpful any requests or alterations were always dealt with no matter how many times she was asked to amend. Nothing was too much trouble.

Japan is the most amazingly wonderful place I have every been to and I'm quite well travelled. 

The accommodation we booked through Japan Travel centre was excellent. In comparison to the hotels which we booked ourselves via booking.com or hotels.com which were basic or over priced. The service and help we received from Japan Travel was excellent and made our stay in the Ryokan they booked for us to be a memorable part of our trip. 

Japan Travel were exceptionally helpful with all of our questions and requests whilst booking our rail pass and looking at accommodation. We hope to visit Japan again and when we do, we will be contacting Japan Travel to help with our travel needs. 
I would highly recommend Japan Travel to anyone looking to visit Japan.

First of all, the service from Japan travel centre was, in the main excellent. The accommodation found for us fitted our requirements perfectly. We wanted to try a traditional ryokan, but this was our worst experience, in Hakone at the Aura Tachibana. The rooms were fine, but dinner and breakfast were fixed menu and very traditional. We enjoyed Japanese food at other hotels and restaurants but at Hakone it just wasn't to our taste. 
As we had paid full board this meant poor value and we had to buy food from local shops. We had 5 days in Okinawa at the manza international resort, and this was the highlight of our holiday, partly because of the facilities and location and also because we had our son and Japanese girlfriend joining us for this part of the trip, to organise things and help us get exactly what we wanted from the trip. We had a potential problem with hiring a car as I had not been advised to apply for the correct international license. Fortuna tely my son's girlfriend was able to step in and she had to drive the car. This was arranged by myself, so no blame attached to Japan travel centre, I just didn't do my research properly. 

We saw a lot of what we wanted to see, toured Tokyo by bus, saw mount Fuji, toured the north and west of Kyoto seeing many of the main temples and the bamboo forest. 
Weather was a bit unreliable, very spring-like (sunshine and showers).

I had an amazing time in Japan. I was keen to see a lot of different aspects, so I saw sumo in Osaka, walked the Kumano Kodo, visited shrines, enjoyed the capital. I finished by a week in Hokkaido, where I wanted to explore Ainu culture. I cannot speak too highly of the service I had from Japan Travel Centre. They booked my sumo ticket for me and negotiated with hotels that had Japanese-only websites so I could stay where I wanted. They advised me on flights and got me cheap internal flights from Tokyo to Sapporo and Sapporo back to Osaka. No matter how small my request, they replied promptly and always helpfully. It is a big thing to travel so far, but JTC held my hand! As a vegetarian, I found it very tough to eat the way I wanted to and I regularly failed and had to eat fish or meat. It is not a vegetarian-friendly country. Overall, though, I had an overwhelmingly wonderful time.

Selecting which aspect of the trip I enjoyed most was impossible to answer properly as there was only one selection possible. I enjoyed the food, the historical landmarks, the people...absolutely everything.

I had few days to enjoy this properly so that is why I followed the agency's advice on guided tours which were EXCELLENT. The staff in the tours was helpful, nice and they made the tours really enjoyable. I've been in lots of guided tours and these ones were the best as everything was explained in great detail. 

The chosen places to stay were great too. Celestine Hotel is just great and Unizo Hotel was a very nice conveniently located Ryokan. 

My recommendation is to stay more than 10 days and if, like me, you don't have the luxury, get some guided tours that will help you to efficiently visit places and learn all the history behind them without queuing for tickets or researching how to get there.

If anything I would REALLY LOVE to repeat the experience. Hopefully, next year, I will have more days!

This short 6 day trip was an excellent and extremely well organised introduction to Japan. The guides on the daily tours were all excellent and informative and we were also given free time to explore for ourselves. We are definitely planning to return for a longer visit to see more of this beautiful country.