The Grand Japan Tour in Tokyo and Kyoto

A guided food tour across two cities

The Grand Japan Tour is a multi-day guided luxury food tour and travel journey in Tokyo and Kyoto. It runs February 2 to 11, 2027, and is organized and hosted by The Hungry Tourist. The format is built as a hosted tour rather than a single dinner, class, or tasting, with the route centered on Japan’s food culture across both cities.

Program focus

The itinerary is described around sushi, kaiseki, wagyu, tempura, ramen, markets, culture, and culinary masters. Those named subjects give the tour a broad food focus, moving from specific Japanese dining styles and dishes to market visits and encounters with people presented as masters of the craft.

The program also includes top-tier dining counters, hidden rooms, culinary masters, and food markets across Tokyo and Kyoto. That mix points to a tour that uses both restaurant settings and market settings, with the named dining formats sitting alongside broader cultural and food-market elements.

How the tour is framed

The Hungry Tourist presents the tour as something larger than another Tokyo tour, a standard Tokyo-and-Kyoto route, or a trip limited to famous counters. The page describes the idea as coming from years of discovering Japan through chefs, friendships, markets, trains, mistakes, surprises, and meals.

The official description opens with the line, “There are Japan tours. And then there is this.” It also names Tokyo and Kyoto and gives the February 2 to 11, 2027 span, matching the tour’s stated two-city, multi-day structure.