All Japan Tours offers a wide range of music-related options when looking to plan your tour in Japan with your concert group or band. We will craft the perfect itinerary that makes your music tour of Japan unforgettable.
If your ensemble would like to plan a performance in Japan, talk with our travel professionals about putting together a music exchange program, where your student group can study music together with students at a local school. Upon request, we can also arrange workshops with local music clubs or even famous conductors during your stay. If you think your musicians might like to perform together with a local Japanese school choir or orchestra, ask us about planning a shared concert. We can add cultural exchange programs featuring lessons in many traditional Japanese cultural experiences, such as playing Taiko drums or learning tea ceremony, and can even include homestays with local families. We also offer tours to all the most popular tourist spots in the country that you may want to see.
We can arrange a variety of public venues for concert performances, including schools, cultural center, concert halls and parks – even Tokyo Disneyland. If you dream of performing at a Japanese music festival, we can, depending on your travel dates, schedule your band’s appearance onstage at one of these events. We customize your music tour to fit the needs of your group, and can prepare the hotel accommodations, special transportation requirements and meal arrangements that will make your concert tour enjoyable.
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Help Me Plan My TripEnjoy a highly rewarding music exchange or workshop with a Japanese music club, school band, ensemble, or choir. Travel to a local school, or meet a Japanese band, where you will have the opportunity to trade and perform each others' musical compositions. An exchange of musical performances between concert groups offers a musical challenge and opens each group of musicians up to different methods of performance. It is also a style of communication unlike any other - a one-of-a-kind method of cross-cultural understanding using music as a universal language. Our travel professionals can connect your student ensemble or choir with Japanese schools, music clubs, or other bands to help orchestrate a safe, enjoyable and engaging music exchange. We can also arrange a workshops with local band directors, or even a performance with a famous conductor.
The addition of a concert performance to your tour itinerary provides your school band, choral ensemble, or orchestra with a fantastic opportunity to perform abroad and an unforgettable memory for you and your students. We can arrange for a concert performance venue to suit the experience you desire for your band or student group. Let us use our expertise to help you iron out the details - we will help you find the best locations for your performance venue, whether you are looking to perform at a school auditorium, cultural center, concert hall, public square, park, and more. We can even arrange for a performance at Tokyo Disneyland or DisneySea. Depending on your timeframe, it is also possible to perform at one of Japan's many festival events. We can go above and beyond by providing an extra advertising service for your group’s performance in the form of ads, flyers, and local announcements. Our advertising service will bring awareness of your concert to the local community, making the performance on your Japan tour more unforgettable.
Imagine your student music class, band, or concert trip to Japan including a shared concert - you and your musicians performing beside a Japanese music club or band in a school auditorium, culture center, or other public venue - and then talk to our travel professionals about adding it to your tour itinerary! We put you in contact with local Japanese schools, music clubs, orchestras - whatever complements your music style, and then plan the arrangements that will make your shared concert a success. Our company will work with you to carefully organize the details of your tour - private transportation to and from the concert venue, pleasant accommodations convenient to the location, suitable locations to rehearse, and the amenities that your music group needs to make your stay comfortable.
Classical Orchestra, Rock, Pop, Jazz, Choral, Traditional - these styles of music and more are represented at Japanese music festivals. While there are music festival events to enliven every season, the largest take place during the summer months. Each year, musicians the world over come to enchant audiences in Japan with skillful demonstrations of their art. And no matter the genre, if you and your music group, be it student band, orchestra, ensemble, or concert choir are considering a tour to Japan, ask one of our travel professionals about adding an appearance onstage at a music festival to your tour itinerary! We can plan your schedule for your festival performance, rehearsal locations for your band before the festival, and arrange the time you need to network with local or international bands that may be performing.
If your student band or concert tour group has the desire to learn a Japanese instrument, inquire with our travel professionals about setting up a Cultural Exchange Program for your tour itinerary. The 13-stringed koto, the long-necked shamisen, the pear-shaped biwa, taiko drums of any size - our company can arrange demonstration lessons for any Japanese instrument that may interest you. This type of cultural exchange brings a more exclusive level of local immersion to your tour, as well as opportunities for students to enjoy cross-cultural communication through music. Many other uniquely Japanese experiences can be included in your cultural exchange program. Ask us about adding lessons in tea ceremony, writing Japanese calligraphy, ikebana flower-arranging, and Zen meditation to your tour itinerary.
Besides cultural exchange programs and concert performances, our company offers tours that take your school band or concert group to any place in Japan that you may want to discover. Your group will have the opportunity to visit the must-see landmarks and monuments on your personal bucket list, as well as the unforgettable experiences that Japan is famed for. But depend on our travel professionals to recommend some hidden gems for a custom itinerary that takes you off the beaten path to experience Japan in a more exclusive fashion. Exploring seasonal attractions, like the winter illuminations, cherry blossoms in spring, bright autumn leaves, or the fireworks festivals in summer will make your custom tour even more unique. In addition, you can request a fully guided tour by one of our local tour guides - seasoned professionals who will assist and educate your group every step of the way.
While we take pride in finding our tour passengers the best hotel accommodations to suit their preferences, nothing can take your Japan Custom Tour to the next level of native cultural immersion like a Homestay Experience. Your group will enjoy the homegrown hospitality or "omotenashi" that Japan is famous for as you stay with a welcoming Japanese family, while also discovering native traditions from a local's point of view. Many homestay accommodations, known as "minshuku", are usually located in rural areas, which comes with the opportunity to appreciate a more traditional Japanese lifestyle. While there, you can enjoy more homemade Japanese meals, and can have the chance to pick up more of the local language.
When you travel with All Japan Tours, you have no need to worry about communication problems, lack of directions, or safety concerns while on a tour. Our tours are fully guided by professional tour guides who remain with you and your group the full length of your trip. Our bilingual guides will be on hand to smooth out any communication difficulties and help you work through emergencies and concerns. They even stay at the same hotel as your group, and we provide your group with contact numbers in case of emergency, so you are never out of touch with your guide or the company.
Perhaps one of the most difficult considerations when planning a trip to Japan for a large group is working out transportation, not only for the members of your concert group but also for any instruments and equipment you require. Booking with our company means you will be traveling to each location on luxurious private coaches. Relax in comfort as you are transported to each location without the hassle of carrying your luggage and instruments. Private coaches also ensure more time is spent visiting locations of interest to your group, and less time dealing with the hassle of transfers between public transportation services.
Our travel professionals hand-pick the accommodations for your concert or band tour to suit your budget. We work to find your student group comfortable accommodations that are convenient to performance venues and other scheduled points on your trip itinerary. Possibilities include a youth hostel with 4-8 students per room, 3-star accommodations with twin occupancy, 4-star accommodations with twin occupancy, and so on, but was can prepare any hotel arrangements that fit the needs of your group.
At All Japan Tours, we arrange your itinerary down to the last detail, and can even book your international flights to and from Japan. We work hard to find the airfares that fit the budget requirements for you and your group.
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