We're excited to help families travel to japan 

We are the only family-oriented travel website focused exclusively on Japan ​and written by [super lucky] foreigners that lived in Japan for three years, love speaking Japanese, and have traveled with our three kiddos in this great country​.
Chris, Maria, and the kiddos
Tokyo Adventures: Eating super healthy (ha!) cotton candy in Harajuku, a city district full of sweet desserts, street art, shocking youth fashion, high end shopping, ancient Shinto shrines, and huge green parks. 

two free travel resources for you

FREE trial - learn japanese

RocketJapanese is an online Japanese learning system with a 4.7 (out of 5.0) star rating, across 3,700+ online reviews. This includes 2,400+ reviews with 5-stars. It teaches pronunciation, writing, and culture, and comes with online Q&A, flash cards, and progress tracking. 
​​-- CLICK HERE FOR THE FREE TRIAL -- 

free Checklist - ultimate packing Guide

Preparing to travel with your family across an ocean to a new and exciting place can be a total zoo. We've experienced it! That's why we created this checklist, with 80 items organized into 6 sections, plus links to make shopping easy.​
“Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times.”
― Asian proverb
Travel Guides & Books
We've picked 22 of the best, if not THE most popular, books about Japan for you, including (1) travel guides, (2) non-fiction (history and culture), and (3) fiction (it's story time!).
Hotels & Ryokans
We've found the top ranked hotels for your family in Tokyo and Kyoto. We've arranged them in Top 10 Lists by 5 stars, 4 stars, 3 stars, and breakfast included + high customer ratings.
Budget & Money
A family adventure to Japan requires an investment of your hard-earned savings. Accordingly, we created a Japan Travel Cost Calculator you can use to estimate your budget for the Japan vacation.
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Disclosure to our readers:
While we wish that we were super wealthy and had no concerns about money ever, that's not true. (Big bummer.) As such,  as an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. That is, we can earn small sales commissions on some of the links that we reference on our website (e.g., hotels, books, etc.). These are called affiliate links. Our affiliate partners include Amazon for now, with other partners to come soon. These fees help us pay for some of our time and travel in order to bring these tips and inspiration to you from and about Japan. Importantly, any fees we earn do NOT increase the prices of these products, hotels, and services for you. These costs remain the same for you, but we hope to make it more fun and less stressful to find what you need to prepare for your trip to Japan. We only recommend highly rated products, hotels, and services, as determined by our own personal experience or ratings of hundreds and thousands of other travelers. In a way, we aim to be like museum curators, but instead of showing you the finest art by painters whose names you can't pronounce, we instead want to make it easier to travel in Japan and have a super awesome and memorable Japan family travel experience! That said, we do not formally endorse any of the companies we link to. You should exercise careful judgement with any online purchase. Finally, we believe that travel and business should be forces of good in the world. As such, we allocate 25% of profits from Japan Family Travel to organizations that help families in Asia, African, and Latin America rise out of poverty through microfinance by growing their own small businesses. #HighFive #JapanRocks  
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