Japan Luxury Trip Review: Takayama, Ryokan, Miyajima Island, Itsukushima Shrine, Hiroshima, Okayama, Two Weeks

We had an excellent experience dealing with Zicasso’s tour operator. He arranged great hotels, especially a wonderful ryokan in Takayama, which was the highlight of our two-week trip. All of the hotels were conveniently located near train stations, which made movement very convenient.

Our travel agent arranged local assistants to help us figure out the somewhat bewildering process of using the trains in Japan, so that was a big help.

The sightseeing was terrific, with local guides at each location, all of whom were very well informed of what we were visiting. In some cases, the guides' English was not as good as we would have liked, but we were able to understand what they were trying to tell us with patience and perseverance by all parties.

I especially appreciated that our tour operator and all of his local people were able to improvise at the last minute to accommodate my wife's unanticipated mobility problem that arose halfway through our trip. They scrambled and found rental wheelchairs, special help in the train stations, hotels, and airports, and while sightseeing. All was handled with grace and professionalism, and made the second half of our trip enjoyable when it could have been otherwise.