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Tips, Places, and Stories From Our Travels of ShikokuGroup Tours to Japan 2022
We know you've been waiting! We've been waiting! But finally we can welcome group tours back to Japan, and we are so excited. Just like this picture, the sun is rising on travel to Japan! As we're sure you know, Japan has had some of the strictest border policies of...
Cycling Shimanami 2022 – We’re an official tour!
Our popular Shikoku Highlights Cycling Tour has been selected as one of the official tours of the famous Cycling Shimanami event.We've been selected as the official tour of the famous Cycling Shimanami event in 2022. We're excited to announce that our popular Shikoku...
Mikyan Wari Hotel Discount
For a limited time, get access to 5,000 yen off any hotel stay in Ehime 日本語↓DISCOUNTED HOTELS with the MIKYAN WARI!! (日本語↓) Really happy to report that Hidden Japan Travel have been chosen for the Mikyan Wari Hotel Discount Campaign. Have you heard of the hotel...
Day Trip to Iya Valley
Join us for a day trip to Iya Valley, Tokushima Download flyers for this tour in English and Japanese. Highlights: Making soba noodles with locals then eating lunch together. The famous kazurabashi – vine bridges 14 metres in the air. Forest Adventure – traverse the...
Cheap Air Travel around Japan
Not to be missed! There are two main ways to get cheap airfares to Shikoku (and to other parts of Japan). First, use a low-cost carrier like JetStar. Book early enough and you can find great deals. For example, we've found flights for from Narita to Matsuyama for as...
New Tour!
Sea Kayak and Cycling on the Shimanami Kaido The Shimanami Kaido is a 70km road stretching from Onomichi on Honshu to Imabari on Shikoku. It's one of the most beautiful cycling routes in the world. But the view from the water is also spectacular! Here we introduce a 3...
GoTo Travel Campaign
Really happy to report that Hidden Japan Travel have been chosen for the GoTo Travel Campaign. This means we can offer a 35% discount on two tours - Cycle the Shimanami Kaido and Matsuyama Food and Culture. Watch also for future taxi and cycling tours. Please get in...
Sustainable Travel – HJT Webinar
Miho and I were really happy to be invited to participate in an interview about sustainable travel. Good travel is something we are passionate about...we think it's positively transformative for guests and locals alike! We also believe that we have a responsibility to...
How to get to Shikoku
Shikoku is the least visited island in Japan. Even though it is amazingly beautiful, very few people make the journey to see us...this makes us sad! We're trying to change that by having exciting tours and while we'd love you to spend all you holiday with us, we know...
Testimonials for Traditional Soba Making in the Mountains
This page will be updated when reviews come in. Minako 5/5 By Email The soba making was excellent. I like cooking and it was absolutely fascinating to make soba - the whole process - with local ladies. It was lovely to interact with them and eat locally grown soba and...
Testimonials for Matsuyama Tour for Cruise Passengers
This page will be updated when reviews come in. All testimonials taken from TripAdvisor. Keith H May 2019 5/5 Best Excursion Ever We booked a private tour for our stop in Matsuyama while on a cruise aboard the Diamond Princess. Miho was an excellent guide and we...
Testimonials for Matsuyama Food and Culture
This page will be updated when reviews come in. All testimonials taken from TripAdvisor. Sue_G_10 May 2019 5/5 Awesome food and culture tour of Matsuyama This tour was the big surprise on our first trip of Japan. We were passing through Shikoku/Matsuyama--only...
Testimonials for Shimanami Cycling Tour
This page will be updated when reviews come in. All testimonials taken from TripAdvisor. Janinechina14 June 19 2019 5/5 Shimanami Kaido A friend of mine told me they had done a great tour with Miho in Matsuyama so I looked at the website and saw that they also offered...
The Matsuayama Food & Culture Tour
After many hours of hard work, lots of cycling, exploration, and a few hikes here and there, Miho and I are finally ready to unveil our new tour! This is our homage to Ehime, and it symbolises everything we love about about the Japanese countryside. We've got a hike...
Japan is the world’s fastest-growing tourist destination
A British newspaper reported today that Japan is now the world's fastest-growing tourist destination, with 28.7 million foreign visitors in 2017. That figure is more than quadruple the number of tourists there were when I first got to Japan. Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, they...
Places only we know
While we love showing off this part of the world and introducing places that most people don't get to see, we also need to keep a few places to ourselves. We hope you don't mind! We've got the best cycling in Japan, great tours with food and culture, wonderful hotels,...
The Best Cycling in Japan
Miho and I have long held that the Shimanami offers the best cycling in Japan. Now, other people are starting to agree with us! We were really glad to see this article by CNN. Why stop at Japan...they think that this is one of the best cycling roads on the planet...
Why Shikoku? 8.8 reasons to travel to Japan’s southern island
Mention Shikoku to the average Tokyo-ite and their eyes will widen, they’ll break into a broad smile, and admit they’ve always wanted to go. They’ll tell you that they’re planning to buy motorcycles to tour the island’s hundreds of coastal roads, complete the sacred...