Private & Bespoke · Tokyo
A Private Food & Culture Day in Tokyo
A day that belongs to no one but you. Your own Tokyo insider opens the doors most visitors walk straight past — and shapes the hours around your appetite, never a timetable.
Only a few private days each week
Hosted by local experts
As seen on Netflix, CNN & Lonely Planet
Choose your experience
Two ways to spend a day with us
A Private Tour
Your own guide and a day designed around you — markets, counters, and the rooms this city keeps to itself.
Guide fee · from $369USD, by season
An Exclusive Workshop
Master-led and hands-on — whisky, wagashi, knife craft or sushi, with everything included.
All-inclusive · from $660USD per group
The Private Tour
One guide. One day. Entirely yours.
There is no set route and no shared group — only you and a Tokyo local who has spent a lifetime learning where to eat, and why. Together you’ll read the markets like a regular, settle onto counters that seat only a handful, and slip into the small rooms this city keeps to itself.
Less a tour. More a day out with a well-fed friend who happens to know everyone.
A sample day
Yours will be different
A starting point, never a script. Every day is drawn up from a blank page.
A Half-Day
A counter-only izakaya
A nightcap of sake the menu never lists
A Full-Day
A chef’s-choice lunch
An afternoon through a neighbourhood few tourists reach
Izakaya, then sake or whisky to close
The essentials
From 3 hours
Extend as you like
Private
Only your party
In English
Expert local host
Any diet
Welcomed, always
Investment
A seasonal guide fee
The guide fee varies by season — from $369 USD + 10% tax for three hours, rising to around $515 USD in peak seasons (cherry blossom and autumn foliage). Tell us your dates and we’ll send an exact quote. Food, drinks, transport and any hotel meet-up are arranged and paid directly, with no markup from us. (Our master workshops are separate, all-inclusive experiences.)
Exclusive Workshops
Make it unforgettable
A collection of master-led experiences, each complete in itself — the expert, the venue and every material included. Enjoy one on its own, or add it to a private day.
Whisky with a master
A guided flight of rare Japanese whisky, poured by a local expert.
From $900 USD + 10% tax · per group · 2 hours
Wagashi Making
Shape delicate seasonal sweets by hand with a wagashi master
From $660 USD + 10% tax · per group · 2 hours
Knife craft in Kappabashi
Choose a Japanese blade and sharpen it with a master — yours to keep.
From $750 USD + 10% tax · per group · 2 hours
Sushi making with a chef
A private lesson with a chef, from knife grip to the perfect nigiri.
From $830 USD + 10% tax · per group · 2 hours
In their words
Questions
How does a private day work?
You tell us what you love. Your host drafts a day, you shape it together, and on the day itself the plan bends to your mood — linger longer here, skip ahead there.
Can you cater to dietary needs (vegetarian, vegan, halal, gluten-free)?
Always. Tell us beforehand and the entire day is built around them — the quiet advantage of going private.
Who will host us?
A born-and-raised Tokyo food expert — sake sommeliers and trained chefs among them — chosen to match what you’re most curious about.
What’s included?
It depends which you choose. On a private tour, your guide fee covers your host’s time — food, drinks, transport and any hotel meet-up are arranged and paid directly. A workshop is all-inclusive: the master, the venue and every material are included in the price.
Your private Tokyo
Begin your journey
Send us your dates and the things you love to eat. We’ll design the rest — and reply to you personally, never with a form letter.
Prefer something simpler? Any of our group food tours can be reserved privately for your party. · Kyoto private day · Osaka private day