Affiliate disclosure

Some links on Small Steps Japan are affiliate links. If you book through them, we may receive a commission at no additional cost to you — you pay exactly the same price. This never determines which places or experiences we recommend; our suggestions are chosen independently, on merit for families.

Our booking partners

We currently work with Klook for activities, attraction and theme-park tickets, tours, airport transfers, rail passes and eSIMs, and we’re adding other family-relevant partners over time. When a Klook link is genuinely useful — for example, pre-booking a theme-park ticket mentioned in a guide — we may include it. When there’s nothing genuinely relevant, we don’t add one.

What this means

• We choose destinations, hotels and activities on merit for families — never because a link pays more.
• Affiliate links open in a new tab and are marked up as sponsored links.
• We never show invented prices, savings or availability — always check the current details on the partner’s site.
• Where we can, we tell you when a recommendation is independent research versus a partner arrangement.
• If a program isn’t active, our links simply behave as ordinary links.

How we label things

• Personally experienced — someone on our team has been there.
• Independently researched — assessed from reliable public sources.
• Partner-provided — information supplied by a provider.
• Sponsored — a paid placement, always marked as such.

Questions? See our editorial policy for how we assess and verify what we publish.