The Promise of Unforgettable Moments in Japan

For adult and senior travelers

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I personally design and lead private, tailor-made days and journeys in Tokyo for discerning travelers seeking real local culture. This is an escape from overtourism and the artificial: travel built around aesthetic and culinary emotions, rooted in Japan’s everyday life at its finest, traditional and contemporary alike, popular as well as deep and exclusive.

I offer a different way of encountering a place — sensory, immersive, into the real. Even a single day together is a return to what travel should be: discovery through experiencing quality daily life as locals do, and encountering people who make it happen.

The Japanese street doesn't explain itself: signs, codes and customs stay silent to the passing visitor in authentic districts. With a guide at your side, you grasp its subtleties and taste the market street, rather than skim over it.

Forty plus years living in Tokyo shape a highly selective range of days, built on a precise conversation beforehand — to clarify what you’re seeking, and reveal what you hadn’t thought to ask for. I guide you discreetly and attentively throughout — full-time, partial, or remote — turning understanding into genuine feeling, and feeling into lasting memory.

For longer journeys requiring full logistical management, I work hand-in-hand with a veteran local travel agent, so the same personal design and accompaniment extend seamlessly across multi-day itineraries.

I provide guidance, interpretation, seamless logistics, and introductions to the people who embody Japan’s everyday quality — from its gastronomy to the pulse of its distinct neighborhoods, from urban energy to provincial calm. Your sense of Japan will not be the same afterward.

Programs from a single day, in Tokyo or beyond.

Japan, a Citrus Country

Citrus Journeys through rural Japan. A unique exploration of a key aspect of Japanese tastes, flavours and landscapes.

Tours for amateurs and professionals.

Japan for Passions

You're passionate about trains, train stations, traditional carpentry, calligraphy, musical instruments, tea, ultra-local food, wines, or other distinctly Japanese pursuits. I offer to design a tour of Japan built entirely around that passion — unlike anything found anywhere else.

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Lionel Dersot

WhatsApp +818020831812