Programmes you can put in front of a client this afternoon.
Six shaped itineraries at net B2B rates, including two built around the Japanese Grand Prix. Day by day, with what is included and what is not — because that is the part you price against.
Does Explera sell ready-made Japan itineraries to travel agents?
Yes — shaped programmes at confidential net rates, quoted to the agent and run white-label under your brand. Each is a starting point rather than a fixed departure: nights, bases and pace all move to suit the party.
Last updated: 18 October 2026
Two F1, four everything else.
Suzuka Race Weekend
The Japanese Grand Prix done without the two things that ruin it — a two-hour transfer on race morning and a hotel ninety minutes from the circuit.
Suzuka and the Golden Route
The race as the centrepiece of a proper Japan trip, rather than a long-haul flight for three days at a circuit.
The Golden Route, Properly
Tokyo, Hakone and Kyoto — the itinerary every operator sells, built so it does not feel like the itinerary every operator sells.
The Setouchi Art Islands
Ando concrete, a Monet room underground and a spotted pumpkin on a pier — the strongest contemporary-art sell in Japan, and a day that fails without planning.
Hokkaido Powder and Culture
The best snow in the world with something to do when it stops falling, which is what separates a Japan ski trip from a Japan ski holiday.
Onsen and Craft
Gold leaf, lacquer, a hearth and a hot spring — the trip for a client who has seen Kyoto and wants to make something rather than photograph it.
Kyushu, Steam and Caldera
Hot springs that are geology rather than décor, a live caldera you drive across, and Nagasaki — the one Japanese city whose history is not domestic.
Tohoku, North of the Crowds
Two hours north of Tokyo the coaches stop and the country opens — samurai streets, a gas-lit onsen village, and the loudest week in the Japanese calendar if the dates suit.
Old Towns, Across the Alps
A castle, two preserved towns and a thatched valley, crossed west in one direction — the trip that answers 'somewhere that still looks like Japan' without leaving the main island.
Okinawa, and Then Further Out
Subtropical Japan with its own kingdom, its own kitchen and water that starts warming in April — sold as two islands rather than one, because the good beaches are not on the big one.
Cherry Blossom, Held Loosely
The most requested trip in Japan and the one most often mis-sold, because the flowers are forecast rather than scheduled — so this is built to move with them instead of against them.
Autumn Colour, Held Loosely
Japan's second peak season and the one agents under-price — colour that moves down the country over six weeks, so the trip is built to follow it rather than to sit and wait for it.
Japan at the Counter
Kaiseki, a working market at six in the morning, a counter that seats eight, and a brewery that will actually talk — the food trip built around what can be booked, not around a wish list.
Japan by Rail, at the Front
The country seen from the window it was built around — premium shinkansen as the spine, the named sightseeing and observation trains as the days, and one balloted luxury cruise train if the file can carry the risk.
Quiet, and Hot Water
Onsen, forest, a temple that will seat a guest properly and three days with nothing in them — the programme whose whole skill is in what it refuses to schedule.
Concrete, Light and Collections
Mainland Japan read as a building rather than a view — postwar concrete, a digital art museum, the national collections, and the craft museums that explain what all of it is arguing with.
Three Generations, One File
Grandparents, parents and children in the same country at three different speeds — built so the nine-year-old and the seventy-nine-year-old both have a good day, usually not the same one.
Two People, Eight Nights
A honeymoon that is not a sightseeing itinerary with flowers on the bed — three bases, private baths, late mornings and exactly two things booked per day.
Cranes, Eagles and Drift Ice
Eastern Hokkaido in February — dancing cranes on a frozen river, Steller's sea eagles over pack ice, and a boat out of Rausu that only sails if the ice and the wind agree.
Workshops, Not Showrooms
Pottery towns, a lacquer workshop, indigo, and a knife forge — access to people who are working, arranged in advance, with an interpreter who knows what a kiln firing schedule actually means for a Tuesday.
Five Nights, No Waste
Two cities, one transfer and nothing that costs a half-day in transit — the short Japan introduction for a senior traveller who has the interest and does not have the fortnight.
The 2027 date is now confirmed.
Formula 1 has published the 2027 calendar: the Japanese Grand Prix runs on 9–11 April 2027 at Suzuka, the circuit's first Sprint weekend. Suzuka's contract runs to 2029. Both programmes are written against the race weekend, so they now fit that date directly.
What does not wait is inventory. Suzuka tickets go on sale on 15 November 2026, and the hotels within an hour of the circuit are already under pressure, so the clients who get a good weekend are the ones whose agent registers interest now.
Start here, then change it.
None of these is a fixed departure. Add nights, drop a base, move the hotel category up or down, or splice two together — Suzuka with the art islands is the one we are asked for most. The day-by-day exists so you can see the shape and argue with it, not so you have to sell it as written.
Send the brief — party size, dates, budget band and what they actually care about — and we will quote the version you want at net rates, under your brand, with your client staying yours.
Japan itineraries — what agents ask.
Does Explera sell ready-made Japan itineraries to agents?
Yes. These are shaped programmes at confidential net rates, quoted to the travel agent and run white-label under your brand. Every one of them is a starting point rather than a fixed departure — the nights, the bases and the pace all move to suit the party.
Is there an F1 Japanese Grand Prix package?
Two. A four-night Suzuka race weekend based in Nagoya, and a nine-night programme that puts the race between Tokyo and Kyoto. The 2027 race is on 9–11 April at Suzuka, and tickets go on sale on 15 November 2026.
Why are there no prices on these pages?
Because the rates are confidential net rates quoted to the trade. Publishing them would either mislead a traveller or undercut the agent selling the trip. Each page states what is included and what is not, which is what an agent needs to build a sell price.
Can these itineraries be changed?
They are meant to be. Add or drop nights, change the bases, raise or lower the hotel category, or splice two together — Suzuka with the art islands is a common one. Send the brief and we will quote the version you actually want.
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