Trek Hut to Hut in the Japanese Alps

In Tokyo you'll stay in the popular Asakusa district in a 3-star hotel, such as the Sunroute Asakusa or similar. Rooms are twin-share with a private bathroom and breakfast is served in the on-site cafe.

You'll spend 2 nights in a ryokan (traditional inn) in Kamikochi such as the Lodge Nishi Itoya or similar. Staying in a ryokan is a quintessential Japanese experience; you will sleep on futons on tatami mats on the floor and the rooms are separated by sliding doors. Most ryokans provide robes and slippers which are worn to dinner and will also have an onsen on site instead of individual showers and bathrooms for the rooms. Onsens at the ryokan are usually shared hot spring baths that are fed from a natural source or simply heated up. There are separate male and female times for the baths and there is strictly no mixing - you will need to wash before you get into them and clothing or swimwear is not allowed. Your guide will assist with the full etiquette when you are there.

You'll spend 4 nights in remote mountain huts. You will sleep in dorm rooms of varying sizes and all bedding is provided for you. There is an etiquette that should be followed at the huts but your guide will fill you in on this. The huts in the foothills of the mountains will likely have somewhere to wash and electricity but as you get higher up the facilities will vary so you won't always be guaranteed a bath and somewhere to charge your bits and pieces.

For solo travellers looking for their own space, an optional private room can be booked for 6 nights for an extra charge. This included every night apart Day 5 and Day 6 where it is not possible, see Optional Extras for the price. Please request this at the time of booking.

We partner with the World Land Trust to ensure this trip achieves Net-Zero emissions. We also support their Buy an Acre programme, helping local communities to buy and protect natural habitats in perpetuity.

What's the number?
It works out on average at 430kg of CO2 emissions per person, including all local transport, accommodation, food, activities, guides, staff and office operations.

The only thing it doesn’t include right now is flights and travel to the destination. We do make an overall estimate across all our customers separately, but as we don’t book flights, have customers from all corners of the world, and no way of reliably knowing their travel plans, we simply can’t include an individual number in the figure on display here. We’ve got a goal to fix that, so that when you book, there is a way to measure and mitigate the carbon emitted by your flight too.

But what does the number mean?
Yep, hard to picture eh? To give you an idea:

• Driving 1000 miles/1609km would be approximately 281kg of CO2 in an average car (or 140.5kg per person, if there were two of you in it).
• A return economy class flight between London and New York would be approximately 1619kg (1.66 tonnes) per person.
• 10 trees in a temperate forest are estimated to remove approximately 250kg of CO2 from the air in a period of 5-10 years.

What are we doing about it?
Our trips are relatively low-carbon by design, and we're working with all our hosts to develop long term carbon reduction plans. We partner with the World Land Trust to ensure this trip achieves Net-Zero emissions. We also support their Buy an Acre programme, helping local communities to buy and protect natural habitats in perpetuity, ensuring the protection of the reserve and its wildlife.

Want to know more?
Amazingly, no international travel company has ever publicly published their carbon measurements before, as far as we know. We believe that must change, quickly. So we’re openly sharing the method we used in the hope that other companies will be able to more easily follow suit and build on what we've done so far. You'll find it all here.