Personal Itinerary Review
Before you book it, let me check it.
I’ll check the route and timing, flag the parts that look rushed, and tell you what I’d change before you lock it in.
Service · Written Review
You have dates, a rough plan, and a browser full of tabs. What you don’t have is someone who lives here telling you what actually needs booking first, what sells out, and where you should sleep. The Japan Booking Audit is exactly that: send me your plan, and within 48 hours you get a written, personal review — the booking order, the deadlines, the base-city calls, and the things you can safely leave for later.
Check this month’s slot → No payment now — I reply within 24 hours.
What you get
Your booking order
What to reserve this week, this month, and what can wait — with the real deadlines (hut releases, ticket windows, sakura-week hotel pressure) for your specific dates.
Where to stay, honestly
Base-city and neighborhood calls for your route — including the Fuji area, where I live: Kawaguchiko vs Fujiyoshida, day trip vs overnight, station-side vs view-side.
What to skip
The overpriced, the overbooked, and the things that don’t fit your dates — with alternatives that do.
One page, yours
A written review you can act on the same day, structured as a checklist with your action dates.
That is the shape of it. Read a full worked example — a complete audit written against a made-up 11-night itinerary, so you can see everything one covers before you send yours.
Kamakura at 7:00, Zenkoji before dawn, Mt. Fuji from the hill above my house — the advice comes from mornings like these, not from search results. All 47 prefectures, photographed in person.
How it works
The form below: dates, group, rough route, biggest open questions. Two minutes.
Within 24 hours I confirm a slot is free. No payment before that — ever.
A PayPal link for US$69. PayPal shows the payment methods available for your country; my own guarantee is below.
Your written review lands in your inbox. Miss the deadline and you get a full refund.
Request your audit
Prefer to plan it yourself?
Everything the audit draws on is free on this site: the Japan Trip Booking Timeline (every verified release rule), the Booking Dates tool (your month, one step), and the live sakura and koyo boards. The audit just does the applying-it-to-your-plan part for you.
FAQ
Why should I trust your calls?
I live in Fujiyoshida at the foot of Mt. Fuji and run this site’s live booking-window tracking year-round — hut releases, festival ticket windows, sakura hotel pressure. The audit applies that same data to your specific dates, plus the local judgment a search engine can’t give you.
Do you book anything for me?
No. You receive written advice and links to official booking channels; every reservation is made by you, in your accounts. I’m not a travel agency and don’t take commissions from your bookings through this service.
What if my dates are far away and nothing is bookable yet?
Then the audit tells you exactly that — with the release dates to calendar and the few things worth locking early (refundable rooms, flexible rail). You’ll know what to do and when, instead of guessing.
How do I pay?
By PayPal — the link comes only after your slot is confirmed, and PayPal shows the payment methods available for your country and account. PayPal Purchase Protection may apply to eligible transactions (eligibility is decided by PayPal); separately and regardless, my own promise stands — miss the 48-hour delivery and you get a full refund.
Refunds?
Full refund if I miss the 48-hour delivery, or if in the unlikely case a confirmed slot falls through after payment.