Learn nigiri sushi from a professional female chef at a small Hakodate sushi restaurant. Shape rice, add wasabi and seafood, compare three dashi stocks, make miso soup, and take home your chef’s cap.
Meet your English-speaking Dohoku Local at JR Biei Station, ride to a permitted farm, and snowshoe across a quiet winter hill. Hattie has been praised for her kindness and flexibility. Gear, warmers, transport, and a cafe drink are included.
A private six-and-a-half-hour Hakodate tour with guide Tomio Yokouchi, using trams and buses to reach the morning market, waterfront warehouses, Mt. Hakodate, and Goryokaku. Admission, transport, and lunch cost extra.
Travel from Sapporo to Asahiyama Zoo, then board GARINKO GO III to crush through Okhotsk drift ice at sunset. Japanese-speaking staff, zoo admission, transport, and cruise fare are included. Guide Yamada has earned praise, but expect a long day and…
Join Aidan of Nobo Tours for a three-and-a-half-hour snowshoe hike from Karurusu Onsen to frozen Lake Tachibana. The 4-kilometre route climbs a wooded ridgeline, then drops to the lake for hot drinks and striking ice formations.
Spend 8.5 hours exploring Butsugan-ji Temple, the Hill of the Buddha, Sapporo TV Tower, and Yata Sake Stand Bar. Scott, one praised guide, adds friendly local tips, while transport, admission, and sake tasting are included.
After a Sapporo soba restaurant closes, your private group makes fresh noodles and eats them with four Japanese favorites: Hokkaido yamawasabi, duck seiro, natto, and grated plum with radish. The one-hour class is near public transportation and ends where it…
Spend about 10 hours with a private Hiace and a Chinese or Japanese driver using simple English. Choose Sapporo, Otaru, Toya, Furano, Biei, or your own mix, with pickup, fuel, tolls, and parking included.
Travel from Sapporo to Asahikawa, Sounkyo, and Mombetsu on a winter group tour with penguins, an icebreaker, drift ice, seafood, sake, and one hot-spring night. Guide Xiao Li may lead the trip.
Meet guide Chris at Makomanai Station for a private-van hiking day tailored to your fitness. Pick from forest trails, mountain summits, lake views, lunch, and an onsen, with groups limited to six.
Start at Susukino Station at 9 p.m. with an English-speaking guide such as Okuyama Tomoyuki, then see Nikka Bar, Daruma Honten, Ramen Yokocho, the Norbesa Ferris wheel, and Asahiyama Kinen Park.
Travel from your Tokyo hotel to Osaka by bullet train with a private nationally licensed guide. See Osaka Castle and Dotonbori, or request a custom plan such as Kobe. English, Spanish, and French guides are available.
Meet an English-speaking Sapporo Tourism Ambassador at Sapporo Station for a private 3 to 7-hour city tour in a high-end vehicle. Visit four major sights, learn local stories, and add beer or chocolate experiences.
Explore Otaru with an English-speaking local guide such as Jun Shirakata or Seiko. This private four-hour walk links Sankaku Market, the Temiya Line, Otaru Canal, and Sakaimachi Street, with time to shape the route around your interests.
Spend 30 relaxed minutes at the pottery wheel in Otaru with an instructor who teaches in English and Japanese. Make several pieces, choose one glaze, then enjoy a drink at Tonobacca Cafe while your selected piece is trimmed, glazed, fired,…