WEDDING LOCATIONS ACROSS JAPAN
Follow the idea a little further.
Niigata
You may have come looking for a garden in Kyoto and found yourself drawn to a house in the countryside. Or you may know exactly why you want to be beside the sea, without knowing which part of Japan holds the place you are imagining.
Those are conversations we enjoy. Our knowledge grows through the weddings we create and the places we keep exploring. Sometimes your interests bring a familiar setting into focus; sometimes they give us a reason to look further.
We work regularly in Mie, Nara, Aomori, Yamanashi, Niigata and Okinawa, around Mt Fuji and the Fuji Five Lakes, and in smaller towns and villages, including a private bamboo forest in Tochigi. Next is Fukui, an extraordinary part of Japan, where we have a wedding coming soon.
Art can be a way into a place
For one couple, a private villa in Nara and an art forest became part of their elopement, followed by a visit to a pottery studio in Mie. They made two halves of a moon vase, to be finished and sent home after the trip.
The connection between those places came from their interest in art. It gave the journey a direction and the wedding a character that belonged to them. We love working from something that personal.
An interest in art or architecture can take us into other regions, too. Tell us what you enjoy spending time with. During planning, we work out which places and experiences could connect those interests to your wedding.
A stay can change the shape of a wedding
A village stay in restored houses in Yamanashi, or a farmhouse in Kiso, Nagano, can make the days around the ceremony part of the experience. You’re choosing somewhere to spend time, as well as somewhere to make your promises.
You might want a shared meal before the wedding, time to walk or explore, and the pleasure of returning to the same place afterwards. With guests, we consider the accommodation and gathering spaces carefully. For two people, we can concentrate the plans around the stay and the experiences you most want to share.
Once you’ve booked and your planning period begins, we develop the property-specific arrangements and confirm access and scope. We want you to understand both what draws you to a place and what it will take to celebrate there.
Yamanashi and the Fuji Five Lakes
If Mount Fuji is what has brought you here, we explore that connection alongside the rest of the day. The lake, the ceremony setting, the dining and where everyone stays all contribute to the experience.
Visibility depends on conditions. A good choice of property gives you more to look forward to around the mountain, while the Creative Team considers how the landscape and light may become part of the photographs.
The coast, and another side of the journey
Fukui’s coastal settings are one direction in our wider search. Shizuoka can bring tea country, Izu and a ryokan stay into the conversation. Niigata offers another relationship between gardens, regional food and the place you spend the night.
What interests us is how these things could belong to your wedding. A region becomes a meaningful recommendation when we can connect it to your tastes, your people and how you would like to spend the time. We investigate the actual properties and experiences with the people who know them.
Taking your people somewhere new
Clear travel information is part of the welcome. We plan the wedding-related accommodation, transfers and schedules so guests can understand the journey and enjoy being there. Their individual travel beyond the celebration can be discussed separately with Awayuki.
New settings take time to understand, particularly if they have not hosted a wedding before. We visit promising unfamiliar properties and work through the hospitality, access, permissions and production with their teams. That care is what gives an ambitious idea a way to happen.
Tell us what keeps drawing you back to Japan. There may be a place you have yet to meet.
Explore the possibilities with us