Our mission
Most Japan guides are written for one type of visitor — a Tokyo-Kyoto-Osaka first-timer with a 7-day window. The reality is messier: solo travellers and families, vegetarians and seafood lovers, hikers and museum-goers, people with three days and people with three weeks. We want every one of them to land in Japan with a plan that fits them, not a template.
What we do
We generate day-by-day itineraries from a short form — entry city, days, interests, dietary notes — using a structured AI pipeline. Around the planner sits a curated catalogue of cities, attractions, restaurants, onsen, and day trips. The most-visited entries carry a Verified badge, meaning a human has checked the photo, copy, and key facts. The rest are programmatic but flagged accordingly.
Why we're different
We do one country, deeply. Itineraries reference real shinkansen times computed server-side; the JR Pass calculator runs against current pricing; the multilingual interface is built for actual inbound traffic from English, Japanese, Vietnamese, Traditional Chinese, and Korean readers — not a Google Translate sticker on top of an English page.
Team
travel2jp is built by Okamoto Takashi (岡本貴), based in Japan. It's a solo project today — feedback and corrections shape it more than any roadmap document.
Sister project
If you're reading Japanese and want to camp in Japan, see our sibling site jpcamp.jp — same team, fully separate codebase, focused on the domestic camping audience.
Plan your trip
Tell us where you're flying into and how long you have. We'll do the rest.