About木漏れ日
How it started
Komorebi began with a morning in Kyoto. One of us, after years of living in Japan, watched a tour group sweep through a temple garden in eleven minutes, while an old gardener raked the gravel behind them as if they had never been there. Japan rewards the people who stay for the raking.
So we built a different kind of trip. Fewer places, longer stays. Early starts when the light is good and the paths are empty, long afternoons with nothing on the schedule. Nights in inns where the owner remembers your name, and dinners that follow whatever the hills and the sea are offering that week.
Today we are a handful of specialists and local guides, in Japan and abroad. We walk the routes ourselves before we send anyone, and we still plan each journey from a blank page, around the season you are travelling in and the kind of quiet you are looking for.
What we hold to
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Fewer places, properly
We would rather give you four places in depth than ten in passing. Three nights somewhere is when it starts to feel like yours.
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Follow the season
Japan changes every few days. We plan around what is flowering, ripening and being served, not around a fixed list.
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Go early, go sideways
Crowds are a matter of timing and geography. A 7am start or a neighbouring valley changes everything.
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Tell the truth
If a place is crowded, a season is wet or a rule is changing, we say so, and we plan around it.
We also think hard about where we send people, and when. Read how we plan to be good guests on Quiet Japan.
The people who plan it
Specialists who have lived in Japan for years and guides who never left. Tap a card to read more.
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