Bandai Tours is a local travel agent in Urabandai, Fukushima.
This is the view from our office.
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What are you doing as a travel agency?
■ Day tours and accommodation package tours
(Custom-made nature walk tours in Mt. Bandai area)
■ Arrangement of custom-made guided tours and mountain guides (Mt. Issaikyo, Adatara, Nishiazuma, Bandai, etc.)
■ Lodging arrangements, overseas AGT land operator
(Hotels, vacation rentals, B&B, etc.)
■ Arranging ski lift tickets
(Nekoma Mountain, Grandeco)
■Arrangement of snowboard instructors who can speak Chinese, English and Korean.
■Arrangement of ski equipment and snowshoe rental
■Aizu Railway extra car charter and charter buses arrangements.
■Arrangement of Aizu Japanese culture tours (e.g. Naginata sword experience, Sake brewery tour, Aizu cotton, etc.).
■ Foreign guest attendants (English, Chinese, Korean)
■ Japanese → English translation
■Training on inbound sales and dealing with foreigners
(Muslim food/Vegetarian, LGBTQ market), support for local facilities to deal with foreign guests
■ Directly managed stores (mountain lodge and campgrounds)
What areas can be arranged?
Fukushima Prefecture (Kitashiobara Village, Fukushima City, Nihonmatsu City, Koriyama City, Inawashiro Town, Bandai Town, Aizu Wakamatsu City, Kitakata City) and Yamagata Prefecture (Yonezawa City).
What is the ratio of domestic and foreign sales destinations?
The ratio in terms of the number of customers is 98% overseas and 2% domestically. Almost all of our work is inbounds arrangements.
Are your transactions BtoB or BtoC?
BtoB transactions are 95% and BtoC are about 5%, almost exclusively with overseas travel agents. To expand BtoC sales, we almost never do BtoC transactions in the form of widespread recruitment, except for individual consultation projects, as we cannot undertake them on the scale of an individual travel agent.
What is the scale of our business?
In 2024, the amount handled as a travel agency is approximately 26 million yen and approximately 1,100 overnight stays for tour guests.
What vehicles are used for tours?
As large buses are not suitable for tours in the countryside, we own one microbus (minibus) for the tour. To accommodate international passengers with many suitcases, we use bus with cargo space and 15 regular seats and 4 auxiliary seats.
Number of participants per group we can handle
Due to the capacity of the microbus mentioned above, if transportation including luggage to and from major train stations and airports is required, the maximum number of participants per group is limited to 15. For groups of 16 or more including luggage, a charter bus will be arranged separately and a separate charter bus fee will be charged.
On the other hand, for winter ski tours where accommodation and lift tickets/rentals are arranged, up to 34 persons per group, charter buses are arranged separately for the arrival and departure days, and buses to the ski slopes are supported by microbuses when the conventional ski shuttle buses are not available.
By the way,
where is
Urabandai?
Urabandai belongs to Kitashiobara Village in the Aizu region of Fukushima Prefecture. Urabandai is not a municipality name, but an area name. Urabandai ("ura" means behind in Japanese) is located at an altitude of 800m and is the north area of Mt. Bandai.
Jododaira is also the name of the highland area and it belongs to the Nakadori (central) area of Fukushima Prefecture and is part of Fukushima City. You can reach Jododaira at an altitude of 1500m in just one hour from Fukushima Station.
Both Urabandai and Jododaira are areas with beautiful nature in national parks. Please come to the plateau where you can enjoy the finest nature, 2 to 3 hours away from Tokyo.
@bandaitours
Representative of Bandai Tours
Genta Kanemitsu
Hello. Welcome to the Bandai Tours website.
When I was a child, I lived in London and Kuala Lumpur for a total of 8 years due to my father's work. After that, when I was in my twenties, I wandered mainly in Southeast Asia and Europe as a backpacker, and have traveled to 30 countries.
That's why I like traveling, but on the other hand, I started a travel agency in 2022 because I wanted to introduce people around the world to this wonderful area of Mt Bandai, where I have been living since 2006.
We mainly sell package tours including day tours and accommodation to overseas travel agencies to visit spots in Mt Bandai area where there are many places where public transportation cannot be used.
If you are interested in me, please feel free to contact.
