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JAPAN TRAVEL CENTER

Japan Travel Center (JTC) established in 2004. We are the ground handling agent for many travel group from Taiwan, Thailand, Hongkong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines, Myanmar, and other Asian customers for 700 groups a year, about 85,000 travelers.

We are providing high skill tour guides, suitable hotels, and meals. Our experienced and dedicated team (4Taiwanese, 1Thai, 1 Indonesian and Japanese staffs also can support by English too) will support guests staying memorable by asking customer’s detailed requests. We are looking forward to your inquiry.

Truly Tokyo

A Tokyo Travel Guide

Japan Travel Consulting

If you’d like a Japan expert to help plan your Japan trip or answer your questions about Japan, contact Japan Travel Consulting (JTC). JTC is a team of Japan travel experts who can assist you by email, Skype, phone or FaceTime.

About Japan Travel Consulting (JTC)

Japan Travel Consulting (JTC) is a team of Japan travel journalists, long-term Japan residents and travel consultants. JTC is operated by Chris Rowthorn, a 20-year resident of Kyoto and author of 19 Japan guidebooks for Lonely Planet, as well as the co-founder of the Inside Kyoto , Truly Tokyo and Inside Osaka websites. The JTC team consists of four Lonely Planet Japan authors, the leading foreign expert on Japan hiking, and a Kyoto-based photographer and guide.

How It Works

We offer voice (Skype/Facetime), email and full trip planning services.

Voice consulting is great for high-level planning. We help you choose your destinations within Japan, your mode of travel, the places you’ll stay and your activities. We don’t produce a full, detailed itinerary, but we send you a list of links and place names following the conversation.

Email consulting is like voice consulting, but it’s via email. It’s a good choice if you don’t have time to speak. Like voice consulting, it’s great for high-level planning. We help you choose your destinations within Japan, your mode of travel, the places you’ll stay and your activities. We don’t produce a full, detailed itinerary, but we send you a list of links and place names following the conversation.

Full trip planning usually starts with a voice consultation. Then, we work with you by email to produce a full itinerary, with accommodation recommendations, daily itineraries, transport information and, in some cases, restaurant recommendations. This usually comes in the form of a Word document or a PDF, and it might include Google maps, where necessary.

All types of consulting are US$190 per hour.

Please Note:

JTC is not a travel agent. JTC does not sell or book travel, hotels or transport. Rather, JTC gives you the information you need to book the best hotels, ryokan, transport options and guides etc at the best rates.

How To Book A Consultation

Please fill in the form below with as much detail as possible about your requirements. You'll then be matched up with a travel expert to provide you with the planning you need.

Payment is via PayPal (you do not need a PayPal account to make a payment).

Payment is in advance for voice and email consulting.

For full trip planning, we require a deposit of ¥15,000 (about US$133 or €113) to start the consultation and this covers your first hour of consulting. Thereafter we bill for every two hours we spend. Payment is as you go and full details of how we spend our time are provided. There will be no surprises. We can provide an estimate before we start. As a guideline, a typical 1-week trip in Japan takes about 7 hours to plan (but this can vary widely).

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Tokyo Vacation Checklist

• For all the essentials in a brief overview, see my First Time In Tokyo guide
• Check Tokyo accommodation availability and pricing on Booking.com and Agoda.com - often you can book with no upfront payment and free cancellation
• Need tips on where to stay? See my one page guide Where To Stay In Tokyo
• You can buy shinkansen (bullet train) tickets online from Klook - popular routes include Tokyo to Kyoto , Tokyo to Osaka and Tokyo to Hiroshima
• You can buy a Japan SIM card online for collection on arrival at Tokyo Narita or Haneda airports. Or rent an unlimited data pocket wifi router
• See my comprehensive Packing List For Japan
• Compare airline flight prices and timings for the best Japan flight deals . Check my guides to arriving at Narita Airport and at Haneda Airport .
• If you're visiting more than one city, you might save money with a Japan Rail Pass – see if it's worth it for you
• A prepaid Welcome Suica card makes travelling around Tokyo much easier - here's how
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Inside Kyoto

A Kyoto Travel Guide

Japan Travel Consulting

If you’d like a Japan expert to help plan your Japan trip or answer your questions about Japan, contact Japan Travel Consulting (JTC). JTC is a team of Japan travel experts who can assist you by Zoom.

About Japan Travel Consulting (JTC)

Japan Travel Consulting (JTC) is a team of Japan travel journalists, long-term Japan residents and travel consultants. JTC is operated by Chris Rowthorn, a 20-year resident of Kyoto and author of 19 Japan guidebooks for Lonely Planet, as well as the co-founder of the Inside Kyoto, Truly Tokyo and Inside Osaka websites.

How It Works

We work by Zoom. A 30-minute Zoom call is usually enough to give you the information and tools you need to plan a truly memorable trip to Japan.

All types of consulting are US$190 per hour.

Please Note:

JTC is not a travel agent. JTC does not sell or book travel, hotels or transport. Rather, JTC gives you the information you need to book the best hotels, ryokan, transport options and guides etc at the best rates.

How To Book A Consultation

Please fill in the form below with as much detail as possible about your requirements. You’ll then be matched up with a travel expert to provide you with the planning you need.

Payment is via PayPal (you do not need a PayPal account to make a payment).

" * " indicates required fields

Kyoto Vacation Checklist

• For all the essentials in a brief overview, see my First Time In Kyoto guide
• Check Kyoto accommodation availability on Booking.com and Agoda.com - often you can book with no upfront payment and free cancellation
• You can buy shinkansen (bullet train) tickets online from Klook - popular routes include Tokyo to Kyoto , Kyoto to Osaka and Kyoto to Tokyo
• Need tips on where to stay? See my one page guide Where To Stay In Kyoto
• See my comprehensive Packing List For Japan
• Buy a data-only SIM card online for collection when you arrive at Kansai International Airport (for Osaka and Kyoto) or Tokyo's Narita Airport . Or rent an unlimited data pocket wifi router
• Compare Japan flight prices and timings to find the best deals
• If you're making frequent train journeys during your visit, you might save money with Japan Rail Pass – see if it's worth it for you
• A prepaid Welcome Suica card makes travelling around Kyoto easy – here's how
• World Nomads offers simple and flexible travel insurance. Buy at home or while traveling and claim online from anywhere in the world

Kyoto District Map

• Central Kyoto
• Northwest Kyoto
• Northern Higashiyama
• Southern Higashiyama
• Downtown Kyoto
• Kyoto Station Area
• South East Kyoto

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At the Japan Travel Company we see travel as a way for people to discover Japan from a new perspective; to find appreciation for the quaint everyday happenings and the history which crafted them.

Our goal is to enrich travellers and local communities alike through unique relationships between tourism, agriculture and regional development.   

Our approach to travel is to go beyond the typical sightseeing attractions and immerse visitors in the authentic culture, environments and communities of Japan.

We aim to maintain the traditional Japanese farming landscape, known as Satoyama, and its thriving ecosystems through sustainable land management and agricultural practices.

Our project helps the communities of two small, rural valleys on the picturesque Kunisaki Peninsula in Oita Prefecture maintain their society and environment with the long-term vision of providing the area with a sustainable and viable future.

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Moleculin CEO, Walter Klemp highlights Annamycin differentiation in the current AML treatment landscape and potential opportunity

FRENCHTOWN, NJ / ACCESSWIRE / April 25, 2024 / JTC Team ("JTC"), a fully integrated corporate communications and investor relations firm, today released a Virtual Investor "What This Means" segment featuring Moleculin Biotech (NASDAQ:MBRX), a clinical stage pharmaceutical company with a broad portfolio of drug candidates targeting hard-to-treat tumors and viruses.

Watch the "What This Means" video here

As part of this "What This Means" segment, Walter Klemp, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Moleculin, discusses highlights from the Company's recently announced positive interim data from its ongoing clinical trial evaluating Annamycin for the treatment of subjects with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), how Annamycin is differentiated in the current treatment landscape, and the Moleculin investment opportunity.

The Virtual Investor "What This Means" segment featuring Moleculin Biotech is now available here . Additional videos from the "What This Means" series are available on demand at www.virtualinvestorco.com .

About JTC Team

JTC is a fully integrated corporate communications firm that is dedicated to helping you tell your story to the right audiences in order to build awareness. JTC has developed a reputation of excellence for executing robust communication strategies that deliver results. The Company partners with both public and private companies across the Life Sciences and Technology industries to help raise awareness and build stakeholder value. For more information, please visit www.jtcir.com or connect with the company on Twitter and LinkedIn .

Jenene Thomas JTC Team, LLC T: +1 (833) 475-8247 [email protected]

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Singapore Q1 industrial rents rise further as occupancy dips and prices fall: JTC

Transaction volume slips 2 per cent from a year ago

RENTS of Singapore industrial space continued to rise in the first quarter of 2024, even as occupancy rates dipped and prices fell for the first time in three years, JTC’s quarterly market report released on Thursday (Apr 25) indicated.

Prices are expected to continue moderating and rents to ease, with slowing global growth and higher supply, said Catherine He, Colliers Singapore’s head of research. 

Rents were up 1.7 per cent, similar to the pace seen in Q4 of 2023, and 7.8 per cent year on year (yoy). Overall rental transaction volume was down by 9 per cent from the previous year.

Rental growth in Q1 was likely driven by higher rents sought by landlords for better-performing quality premises, noted Tan Boon Leong, JLL’s executive director for logistics and industrial. 

Single-user factory and business park rents rose the most – by 2.1 per cent in Q1 – while warehouses had a 2 per cent increase, and multiple-user factories recorded a 1.3 per cent change over the previous quarter. 

On a yearly basis, rents for multiple-user factories and single-user factories grew 8.9 per cent and 6.1 per cent, respectively. Warehouse rents rose 7.5 per cent and business park rents increased 5 per cent.

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“Supply continued to be tight this quarter, especially in the prime logistics space where there is no upcoming supply for the rest of the year. Third-party logistics (3PLs) and consumer products are the main demand drivers for warehouses,” said Colliers’ He.

Colliers expects more space to come into the market as some tenants downsize or relocate, together with higher supply completing in 2025. Occupiers may also opt to develop sites themselves or relocate to cheaper locations. 

“This will likely cause occupancy rates and rents to ease further (for the warehouse segment),” added He.

CBRE’s head of research for Singapore and South-east Asia, Tricia Song, observed that while some logistics occupiers have started to show resistance to higher rents, they remain keen to pivot away from traditional warehouses. 

“Landlords with prime logistics assets remain well positioned to capture demand from large-scale end-users such as 3PLs,” she added.

Prices for industrial space dipped 0.2 per cent compared to Q4 2023, in their first quarter-on-quarter drop in 13 quarters since Q3 2020, JTC said. 

Song added: “While investors generally expect interest rates to come down by year’s end, the uncertainty over the timing of these interest rate cuts could have dampened sentiment for some investors in Q1 2024. That said, yields for leasehold industrial assets remain attractive as they offer investors a positive carry.”

Huttons Asia’s senior director of data analytics, Lee Sze Teck, noted that prices in the single-user factory segment had dropped for two consecutive quarters. 

Yoy, overall prices were up 3.3 per cent, while transaction volume fell 2 per cent. 

Multiple-user factories saw 0.5 per cent growth, and prices were up 4.6 per cent compared to the year-ago quarter. Single-user factory prices declined by 1 per cent, and were 1.8 per cent higher against Q1 2023.  

Demand for multiple-user factories, especially those with higher-specification spaces, was driven by biomedical and engineering firms, albeit at a slower pace and with most tenants looking at smaller spaces of less than 10,000 square feet, said Colliers. 

“For single-user factories, there is a surge of supply coming on stream in 2024, though these are typically developed by the industrialists for their own use; demand in this segment has been supported by advanced manufacturing players,” added He from Colliers. 

“However, together with overall softer demand and leasing activity, rental and price growth for both types are likely to slow.”

Business park demand remains muted, with more renewals and occupiers right-sizing, said Colliers.  

The increase in business park rents was likely driven by “selected deals in premium spaces”, said CBRE’s Song, noting that median rents in one-north rose the most on a quarterly basis, by 16.3 per cent.

Overall occupancy fell 0.3 per cent in Q1 to 88.7 per cent, as supply increases continued to outpace demand. Compared to the year-ago period, the occupancy rate was 0.1 per cent lower.  

JLL’s Tan said the decline in occupancy was due to the doubling in net space additions from 65,000 square metres in Q4 2023 to 127,000 sq m in Q1, while the number of industrial tenancies fell to a 15-quarter low of 2,948 during the quarter.

As at end-March, the total available stock of industrial space stood at 53 million sq m. Total available stock rose by 0.7 million sq m, compared with an increase of 0.6 million in total occupied stock over the past year.

JTC expects 1.6 million sq m of industrial space to be completed in the rest of this year.

Another 1.6 million sq m of industrial space is expected to come on stream in 2025 and 2026. This points to an average annual supply of about 1.2 million sq m from now until end-2026, more than the 1 million sq m average annual supply injected over the past three years, and outweighing the average annual demand of 600,000 sq m. 

Colliers expects overall industrial rent growth for 2024 to moderate between 3 and 5 per cent, and put price growth at between 1 and 3 per cent.

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The Moscow Metro Museum of Art: 10 Must-See Stations

There are few times one can claim having been on the subway all afternoon and loving it, but the Moscow Metro provides just that opportunity.  While many cities boast famous public transport systems—New York’s subway, London’s underground, San Salvador’s chicken buses—few warrant hours of exploration.  Moscow is different: Take one ride on the Metro, and you’ll find out that this network of railways can be so much more than point A to B drudgery.

The Metro began operating in 1935 with just thirteen stations, covering less than seven miles, but it has since grown into the world’s third busiest transit system ( Tokyo is first ), spanning about 200 miles and offering over 180 stops along the way.  The construction of the Metro began under Joseph Stalin’s command, and being one of the USSR’s most ambitious building projects, the iron-fisted leader instructed designers to create a place full of svet (radiance) and svetloe budushchee (a radiant future), a palace for the people and a tribute to the Mother nation.

Consequently, the Metro is among the most memorable attractions in Moscow.  The stations provide a unique collection of public art, comparable to anything the city’s galleries have to offer and providing a sense of the Soviet era, which is absent from the State National History Museum.  Even better, touring the Metro delivers palpable, experiential moments, which many of us don’t get standing in front of painting or a case of coins.

Though tours are available , discovering the Moscow Metro on your own provides a much more comprehensive, truer experience, something much less sterile than following a guide.  What better place is there to see the “real” Moscow than on mass transit: A few hours will expose you to characters and caricatures you’ll be hard-pressed to find dining near the Bolshoi Theater.  You become part of the attraction, hear it in the screech of the train, feel it as hurried commuters brush by: The Metro sucks you beneath the city and churns you into the mix.

With the recommendations of our born-and-bred Muscovite students, my wife Emma and I have just taken a self-guided tour of what some locals consider the top ten stations of the Moscow Metro. What most satisfied me about our Metro tour was the sense of adventure .  I loved following our route on the maps of the wagon walls as we circled the city, plotting out the course to the subsequent stops; having the weird sensation of being underground for nearly four hours; and discovering the next cavern of treasures, playing Indiana Jones for the afternoon, piecing together fragments of Russia’s mysterious history.  It’s the ultimate interactive museum.

Top Ten Stations (In order of appearance)

Kievskaya station.

Kievskaya Station went public in March of 1937, the rails between it and Park Kultury Station being the first to cross the Moscow River.  Kievskaya is full of mosaics depicting aristocratic scenes of Russian life, with great cameo appearances by Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin.  Each work has a Cyrillic title/explanation etched in the marble beneath it; however, if your Russian is rusty, you can just appreciate seeing familiar revolutionary dates like 1905 ( the Russian Revolution ) and 1917 ( the October Revolution ).

Mayakovskaya Station

Mayakovskaya Station ranks in my top three most notable Metro stations. Mayakovskaya just feels right, done Art Deco but no sense of gaudiness or pretention.  The arches are adorned with rounded chrome piping and create feeling of being in a jukebox, but the roof’s expansive mosaics of the sky are the real showstopper.  Subjects cleverly range from looking up at a high jumper, workers atop a building, spires of Orthodox cathedrals, to nimble aircraft humming by, a fleet of prop planes spelling out CCCP in the bluest of skies.

Novoslobodskaya Station

Novoslobodskaya is the Metro’s unique stained glass station.  Each column has its own distinctive panels of colorful glass, most of them with a floral theme, some of them capturing the odd sailor, musician, artist, gardener, or stenographer in action.  The glass is framed in Art Deco metalwork, and there is the lovely aspect of discovering panels in the less frequented haunches of the hall (on the trackside, between the incoming staircases).  Novosblod is, I’ve been told, the favorite amongst out-of-town visitors.

Komsomolskaya Station

Komsomolskaya Station is one of palatial grandeur.  It seems both magnificent and obligatory, like the presidential palace of a colonial city.  The yellow ceiling has leafy, white concrete garland and a series of golden military mosaics accenting the tile mosaics of glorified Russian life.  Switching lines here, the hallway has an Alice-in-Wonderland feel, impossibly long with decorative tile walls, culminating in a very old station left in a remarkable state of disrepair, offering a really tangible glimpse behind the palace walls.

Dostoevskaya Station

Dostoevskaya is a tribute to the late, great hero of Russian literature .  The station at first glance seems bare and unimpressive, a stark marble platform without a whiff of reassembled chips of tile.  However, two columns have eerie stone inlay collages of scenes from Dostoevsky’s work, including The Idiot , The Brothers Karamazov , and Crime and Punishment.   Then, standing at the center of the platform, the marble creates a kaleidoscope of reflections.  At the entrance, there is a large, inlay portrait of the author.

Chkalovskaya Station

Chkalovskaya does space Art Deco style (yet again).  Chrome borders all.  Passageways with curvy overhangs create the illusion of walking through the belly of a chic, new-age spacecraft.  There are two (kos)mosaics, one at each end, with planetary subjects.  Transferring here brings you above ground, where some rather elaborate metalwork is on display.  By name similarity only, I’d expected Komsolskaya Station to deliver some kosmonaut décor; instead, it was Chkalovskaya that took us up to the space station.

Elektrozavodskaya Station

Elektrozavodskaya is full of marble reliefs of workers, men and women, laboring through the different stages of industry.  The superhuman figures are round with muscles, Hollywood fit, and seemingly undeterred by each Herculean task they respectively perform.  The station is chocked with brass, from hammer and sickle light fixtures to beautiful, angular framework up the innards of the columns.  The station’s art pieces are less clever or extravagant than others, but identifying the different stages of industry is entertaining.

Baumanskaya Statio

Baumanskaya Station is the only stop that wasn’t suggested by the students.  Pulling in, the network of statues was just too enticing: Out of half-circle depressions in the platform’s columns, the USSR’s proud and powerful labor force again flaunts its success.  Pilots, blacksmiths, politicians, and artists have all congregated, posing amongst more Art Deco framing.  At the far end, a massive Soviet flag dons the face of Lenin and banners for ’05, ’17, and ‘45.  Standing in front of the flag, you can play with the echoing roof.

Ploshchad Revolutsii Station

Novokuznetskaya Station

Novokuznetskaya Station finishes off this tour, more or less, where it started: beautiful mosaics.  This station recalls the skyward-facing pieces from Mayakovskaya (Station #2), only with a little larger pictures in a more cramped, very trafficked area.  Due to a line of street lamps in the center of the platform, it has the atmosphere of a bustling market.  The more inventive sky scenes include a man on a ladder, women picking fruit, and a tank-dozer being craned in.  The station’s also has a handsome black-and-white stone mural.

Here is a map and a brief description of our route:

Start at (1)Kievskaya on the “ring line” (look for the squares at the bottom of the platform signs to help you navigate—the ring line is #5, brown line) and go north to Belorusskaya, make a quick switch to the Dark Green/#2 line, and go south one stop to (2)Mayakovskaya.  Backtrack to the ring line—Brown/#5—and continue north, getting off at (3)Novosblodskaya and (4)Komsolskaya.  At Komsolskaya Station, transfer to the Red/#1 line, go south for two stops to Chistye Prudy, and get on the Light Green/#10 line going north.  Take a look at (5)Dostoevskaya Station on the northern segment of Light Green/#10 line then change directions and head south to (6)Chkalovskaya, which offers a transfer to the Dark Blue/#3 line, going west, away from the city center.  Have a look (7)Elektroskaya Station before backtracking into the center of Moscow, stopping off at (8)Baumskaya, getting off the Dark Blue/#3 line at (9)Ploschad Revolyutsii.  Change to the Dark Green/#2 line and go south one stop to see (10)Novokuznetskaya Station.

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Jonathon Engels, formerly a patron saint of misadventure, has been stumbling his way across cultural borders since 2005 and is currently volunteering in the mountains outside of Antigua, Guatemala.  For more of his work, visit his website and blog .

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