Two people. One trip at a time.

We are a married couple living between the United States and Japan, working steadily toward opening a small inn in the Japanese countryside. Until then, we offer the same care to your trip.

私たち Who we are

Anna （アンナ）

Anna was born and raised in Japan and has worked the front desk in Japanese hospitality, where she learned the craft this whole service is built on: arranging things for guests before they arrive, by telephone, politely, so that the day simply works.

Fair warning about the planning call: Anna will want to know everything. Why Japan, what you cook at home, which film started all this, what you're secretly hoping for. She plans trips around who you are, and this part is her favorite. Guests tend to arrive in Japan already feeling expected.

She is from Nagoya, and was the sort of child other people called too unique for the place she grew up in. She has loved Britain since long before she ever set foot in it — the history, the humour, the music, the whole improbable institution of it — which means British guests tend to find themselves talking to someone who knows their country oddly well. She follows baseball with real seriousness, particularly when the games are at home in Nagoya.

And she is completely, unreasonably devoted to birds. There is a nectar feeder outside the window and a camera never far from it. If your trip has room in it for somewhere quiet at dawn, say so — you will have made her week, and the recommendations will be better than anything written down.

Conrad

Conrad is American and keeps everything in order behind the scenes: the research, the day-by-day document, the train times and platform numbers and walking minutes. If Anna's work is the telephone, Conrad's is making sure nothing lives only in someone's memory.

理由 Why we do this

Practice for the inn.

The Japan we love most, the quiet towns an hour past where the guidebooks stop, is genuinely hard to arrange. That difficulty keeps it invisible to travelers who would treasure it. Arranging a couple of trips a month is good work on both sides of that door, and it is our preparation for the inn we intend to open. If you'd like to follow along, that story is told in the letters that come with the free planner.