Dear Miyuki,

Zora and I would like to thank you for your efficiency and responsiveness in assisting the planning and bookings associated with our upcoming visit to Japan. Also your diligence in arranging bookings for our daughter and family.

Having travelled extensively internationally for the last 45 years, as a working global citizen dealing directly with or having staff co-ordinating travel , we have had dealings with numerous travel agencies and individuals.

We also own our own business that prides itself on its focus on customer service for the last 24 years.

Young lady you are a hard act to follow.

As we will now be frequent travellers to Japan to visit our son and daughter in-law we look forward to the continuance of this association.

Thank you again.

Best Regards,

Phillip 

September 2017

Hi Chris

The Panoramic Coach tour in Tokyo we could recommend, especially the lunch & cruise on Tokyo Bay. Lucky to see a traditional Japanese wedding at the Meiji Shine. We found Shinjuku Station confusing to find out where to exchange our JR rail pass, but eventually with help from some locals managed to track our way through.

Our friends met us at Himeji Station where we enjoyed their hospitality for a traditional meal with them that night, visited Himeji Castle, caught cable car up to Mt Shosha for a walk amongst the pathways.

We were able to book the bullet train straight from Tokyo to Himeji, without stopping at Kyoto, which was great.

All the hotels we stayed at were great, including Kyoto which was opposite the Nijo-Jo Castle which we visited. Had dinner in the Kamo River area which is an interesting place. Did some shopping, visited Temples, did a tea ceremony, dinner at local restaurants

Jo

September 2017

Dear Ayumi,

Anna and I have just returned from our holiday in Japan and I wanted to thank you for all of the arrangements you made on our behalf; the accommodation was very comfortable and convenient and the tours were excellent.  Our guides – Yoko for Mt Fuji/Hakone and Junko for Nara – were terrific.

Japan is a wonderful country to visit and we were really struck by the politeness and helpfulness of the Japanese people we encountered.

We had a wonderful time and much of it was due to your excellent arrangements.

Thank you,

Derry

Hi Yoshihiro,,

 We completed our 3 day tour. Everything was perfect, wonderful guide,good weather too. Now in Kyoto, we like hotel you chose and half day tour was good, but very hot and humid. Thank you for organising our tour perfectly.

JTB is awesome!

Regards

Derek

August 2017

Dear Kate,

I’m writing to you to provide positive feedback regarding Minji Moon. Minji has been assisting us in the booking of our holiday to Japan. We’ve found her to be very friendly, extremely helpful, prompt, knowledgeable & to have an excellent attention to detail. I have dealt with many travel agents before, & I have found Minji to deliver an exceptional level of customer service. My wife & I are elated with the service & itinerary provided by Minji to date. I look forward to providing additional feedback upon our return.

Thank you.

Warm Regards,

HEATH

Hello

I have recently returned from a trip with my family (wife and three teenage children) to Japan.  The accommodation and internal transport aspects of that trip were organised through JTB, specifically by Suzuka Sakauchi. The purpose of this e-mail was just to let you know how delighted we were with all the arrangements made by JTB. Everything worked out well for us, such that we could just concentrate on enjoying Japan (which we did). Suzuka gave some good advice on travel, specifically about the use of the Suica cards for the first part of our stay in Tokyo and JR Pass for the rest, plus the hotel locations and their facilities chosen were all excellent.

In short, my family and I had a brilliant time in Japan and a major factor in that was how effective and trouble-free the JTB organised arrangements were. Please pass on our thanks to Suzuka and the rest of the team.

Regards

Barney

July 2017

Hi Mika,

My flights to Japan went perfectly and I’m really enjoying Sapporo. Today I went to Otaru for a day trip. Lovely place.

I will definitely come to visit you when I return from this trip. Be nice to meet you.

Thanks again for your help.

Best wishes

Tom

July 2017

Hi Miyuki,

We arrived from Japan today and it was an amazing experience, their culture is so different to Australias’ ! Me, my sister and mother all had so much fun at Universal Studios ! Accomodation and food was all great and so was sightseeing Kyoto, Osaka and Tokyo. Would love to go there again and once again, thank you for helping us organise our trip.

Warm regards,
Brandon

Good evening Ms Miyuki,

I just wanted to thank you on behalf of my family for helping us organise our trip to Japan. We are very excited and am eager to experience something unique and different. Thank you for answering all my queries and providing us with essential information,

Thank you and warm regards,

Brandon

June 2017

A great trip and very well organised. Giving us a great oversight of Japan!

June 2017

Japan is a wonderful country. Our guide was knowledgeable and very easy to get along with. He catered for everyone’s individual needs. Very highly recommended. 

Fully Escorted Tour: Explore Japan by Rail

What a pleasure to travel by train with plenty of legroom and ease of getting on and off. Having a tour guide and travelling in a small group ensured that any concerns or queries were promptly attended to. Spring temperatures were warm and pleasant. The amount of walking was not strenuous and the overall pace of the tour was relaxing. 

Fully Escorted Tour: Explore Japan by Rail

Dear Olivia,

I have been meaning to write to you for ages since we got back but one thing and another has delayed me…

Pat and I would like to say a huge thank you for our trip to Japan!  It was absolutely great and the itinerary you prepared worked wonderfully (thank you also for clarifying for us the extra night in Okayama so quickly).

The Keio Plaza Hotel in Tokyo was great, lovely staff and our room each time was fantastic.  It was a great way to start and end our trip, and we enjoyed being in Shinjuku (once we got used to the station – wow).  Kanazawa was charming and we loved the Kenruoken Garden (hope I’m not mixing it up with the other stunning one in Okayama).  We loved Takayama and really enjoyed the Green Hotel, our first onsen experience.  A real surprise was Okayama.  Considering we mainly went there for its proximity to Naoshima Island, we both found it a relevation.  Lovely sized city, with great castle and beautiful garden and we had some fab meals there.  I loved the Grand Via Hotel there – I could see the shinkansen terminal and tram terminus from our (large) room!  It was a great suggestion of yours to stay there and not on Naoshima (though I did enjoy visiting it and found a funky rockabilly diner there, recommended by one of my workmates – who knew?).

As for Miyajima Island, we LOVED it and the Kinukoya Hotel was superb.  The food was unbelievable there and again, the onsen experience was just fantastic.  We managed to fend off the deer, and could see the floating Tori gate from our room.  Awesome.  The Hiroshima Museum was sobering but fascinating, when we took our day trip there.

Osaka was fun and we ate some great food there and saw some of the best cherry (and plum) blossom of our trip near the Castle, which was also excellent.

We loved travelling by train, especially the mighty shinkansen, and we also loved the Kyoto Railway Museum.  I almost forgot: Kyoto was totally beautiful and a highlight was the Fox temple, the Philosopher’s Path (almost obscured by crowds :)) and of course, the number of local women wearing stunning kimonos.

We definitely want to go back at some stage, but again, thank you so much for such a wonderful introduction; we will most definitely recommend to any friends thinking of going to come and see you.

Very best wishes,

Alison and Pat

June 2017

Dear Mende

We just came back from Tokyo,

Thank you very much for arranging our trip.

Everything went real well the hotels were booked in good places close to trains

Shopping centres & restaurants.

Thank you again for your good services

Kind regards Annie

June 2017

Hi Sue.

Apologies for the delay in getting back to you.  It is Mary-Ellen and It was my job to contact you about our trip. 

I didn’t think that John would give enough superlatives.

Yes.  We had an amazing time.  You did an outstanding job on giving us an itinerary that met all our requests.

The timing from us was co-incidental but it was brilliant.  The blossoms were magnificent. We hit peak blossom in Tokyo.  And scored the fantastic Spring Festival in Takayama.

The hotels were a fabulous mix of luxury and interest from the old Kananaya Hotel in Nikko to the awesome Benesse House.  The hotels in Hakone, Takayama and Kurashiki are all worthy of special mention.  Did not wish to leave Gora Hanougi. 

You put us in excellent locations, close to the points of our interest.  Kurashiki was delightful and allowed us to visit the fabulous garden in Okayama.  It was a lovely wind down as well.

We ate in a wide range of places from street food to high end at Hakone – that was fabulous.

We saw magnificent gardens, palaces, shrines of all size.  We visited art galleries and museums and we walked and walked and walked.

You did an amazing tour for us.  We loved the trains and the sometimes comical interactions to ascertain platforms and times.  We missed a couple of connections but our longest wait was an hour.  That is Japan.  Absolutely fell in love with Japan.  The cleanliness, the order and the courtesy.  The Japanese must think we are gorillas by comparison.

So to finish.  Many many thanks.  We highly recommend the itinerary you put together for us and will are guaranteed to ask you to plan our next trip.  (Not for a couple of years though!)

Very best wishes

Mary-Ellen and John

May 2017