If you searched for Arigato Japan Food Tours and ended up somewhere called Arigato Travel, that is correct.
The rebrand
Visiting arigatojapan.co.jp on 3 September 2026 redirected to arigatotravel.com, whose title describes “Culinary and Cultural Experiences in Japan” with sections for Tokyo, Osaka and other cities.
Same operator, new name. Worth knowing, because search results and older recommendations still use the old one.
What a specialist operator gives you
Booking direct with a food-tour operator is a different proposition from booking through a marketplace.
Deeper local knowledge. A company that only does food tours generally knows its restaurants better than a general sightseeing operator running food as one product line among many.
Continuity with venues. Relationships with the places you visit tend to be longer, which affects what you are served and how you are received.
Direct contact. You can ask specific questions before booking rather than working through a platform’s messaging.
What it costs you
Fewer reviews to check. A marketplace listing aggregates hundreds of reviews in one place. An operator’s own site does not offer the same independent volume.
Operator-set cancellation terms. Platforms often standardise on free cancellation up to 24 hours. Direct bookings run on the operator’s own policy — which for an outdoor walking tour, in a city with real weather, is worth reading properly.
Harder comparison. Price and inclusions across operators take more work to compare than a filtered platform search.
Confirm the district
This operator works across several Japanese cities and several Tokyo districts. A Tokyo food tour is not automatically a Shibuya food tour.
Check the itinerary before booking. If Shibuya specifically is what you want — Nonbei Yokocho, the lanes behind Center-gai, Miyashita Park — make sure those appear.
See eating in Shibuya for how the district’s food areas are laid out.
Dietary requirements
State them early. Japanese cuisine is built on dashi, and most dashi contains bonito or dried sardine. “No meat” does not make a route vegetarian, and a route already built around specific restaurants cannot always be rearranged at short notice.
A benchmark to compare against
Before booking direct, look at the platform alternative. The Shibuya izakaya crawl on Klook showed 4.9 from 159 reviews and more than 1,000 bookings on 3 September 2026 — three hours across three or four venues.
That gives you a reference point for format, price and what the reviews say. See the izakaya bar crawl.
Sources
The redirect from arigatojapan.co.jp to arigatotravel.com, and the site’s self-description, were observed on 3 September 2026. Tour routes, prices and terms are set by the operator and change — confirm on their site.
This site is not affiliated with Arigato Travel and does not sell its tours.