From Tokyo: Kamikochi & Taisho Pond Private Tour Private tour with Takayama hotel pickup

Private cars are banned in Kamikochi. We catch the first shuttle so you reach Taisho Pond while it is a mirror. Private van with hotel pickup, your own pace, one tour price for your group.
Kamikochi is a glacial valley at 1,500 metres in the Northern Japan Alps, and no private car has been allowed in since 1975. Everyone parks at Sawando or Hirayu and takes a shuttle bus.

That rule is why the valley is still beautiful, and it is also why almost every tour arrives at the same time as everyone else, around ten in the morning, when Taisho Pond has a breeze on it and forty people at the viewpoint.

We do the opposite. We collect you in Tokyo at about two in the morning, drive to Sawando in the dark, and put you on the first shuttle of the day.

Taisho Pond was created in 1915 when Mount Yake erupted and dammed the Azusa river. The drowned trees are still standing in the water. Early, with no wind, the pond goes completely flat and holds a perfect reflection of the Hotaka range. An hour later it does not.

From there you walk downstream along the Azusa - water so clear you can count stones at two metres - through birch and larch to Kappabashi, the wooden suspension bridge, with the whole Hotaka wall in front of you. It is flat, well made and about an hour at an easy pace. You can walk more or less as you like.

From 2026 the shuttle buses require reservations in both directions. We book those for you. That single piece of admin is the reason most operators do not run this properly.

Your private van, driver-guide and the whole day are yours alone, up to the point where the valley requires the public shuttle, which everybody uses.

Kamikochi closes completely from mid-November to mid-April. If the valley closes early for snow, or the road is shut, we run the Matsumoto and Norikura foothill alternative or give a full refund. We will tell you before the tour.

उपलब्धता की गारंटी के लिए जितनी जल्दी हो सके बुक करें। जल्दी बुकिंग पर विचार करना विशेष रूप से तब महत्वपूर्ण है जब आप सार्वजनिक छुट्टियों या सप्ताहांत जैसे उच्च सीजन के दौरान यात्रा की योजना बना रहे हों।

इस यात्रा को आप यात्रा शुरू होने से 24 घंटे पहले बिना किसी शुल्क के रद्द कर सकते हैं। यदि आप इसे 24 घंटे बाद रद्द करते हैं या यात्रा पर नहीं आते हैं, तो भी आपको गतिविधि की पूरी कीमत चुकानी होगी। पिक-अप या प्रस्थान में देर से आना यात्रा पर नहीं आने के रूप में माना जाएगा।