Japan - The Royal Tour

Posted on October 5, 2017February 5, 2018 by theroyaltourblog · 8 Comments

How to Have a Samurai Experience in Tokyo

Samurai are one of the most famous cultural exports from Japan. For me, I have been fascinated with samurai culture ever since reading Shogun by James Clavell nearly twenty years ago. (It remains my favorite book to this day.) The samurai period ended with the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1867, but the concept of…

Posted on September 28, 2017February 5, 2018 by theroyaltourblog · 2 Comments

Trip Itinerary: Beijing and Japan

Last year, one of my best friends went through a pretty rough divorce. To give him something to look forward to, I offered to take him anywhere in the world he wanted to go. "Japan," he said, "but I want to see the Great Wall first." So here we go! Below is our general itinerary,…