I would not recommend this travel agency if you are traveling in Japan.
Any good review that you might find for Hitotoki is probably fake.
We had some issues, but they were not able (or didn't care) to attend to our complaints.
Bad and unhelpful customer service.
Any request from us and even the guide Hitotoki assigned to us, never got any support, by either phone, email...even wasting our time to go to their office we never found.
And when we finally got some news (already left Japan), they blame other party for the issues.
Don't do business with this company. It is a waste of money and energy and only creates frustration.
2022年7月25日
Hitotoki | Luxury Travel Designer からの回答
Dear "Hsu Wong", although it seems not to be your real name, We were very initially surprised to read your review as we did not recognize any of our customers’ stories. As a matter of fact, Japan borders are closed to tourists since March 2020. We have been arranging quarantine reservations but no guided tours since then. We even carefully looked at our previous records before that date as well and have thus confirmed that you are not one of our customers. You obviously submitted a forged document to Trustpilot to get a “verified” label and your story is a fiction.
A fiction, but not a carefully crafted one nonetheless. After writing a different fake review under the name of "Mr. Gibsen" a few weeks back which has been removed by Trustpilot as identified as a fake review, you give it another try, putting efforts to be more realistic by picking one of the very few guide names that appear in our below genuine reviews. Any serious player in our field would recall that Japan has been closed since March 2020 and the guide you refer to, Mrs. Masako (that we know well and consider as family contrary to what you pretend) has actually not worked with us since 2019.
You would also certainly be relieved to know that Hitotoki is a fully registered travel agency in Japan, Active Member of JATA and founding Member of HICJ, a Club regrouping over 25 of the most renowned travel agencies in Japan. We are therefore covered by the best guarantees and insurance plans of the profession.
You should know this, since you are not our customer, but a competitor trying to tarnish our image. Or should you? It seems you might not, in fact, have a valid license for your own Japanese travel agency, whose name we believe we have identified.
We take the opportunity to remind you that libel, harassment and forgery are heavily punished by law in Japan and we may take legal actions to keep you at bay.