Travel & Hospitality Startups

A luxury travel and experiential platform that offers customized five-star travel and experience plans to registered members.

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Trifa is a travel infrastructure platform that enables frictionless international travel and booking. The company creates tools and services to make travel more accessible and enriching for users worldwide, starting from East Asia.

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Heaven Retreat develops and sells vacation villas in rural Japan, offering shared ownership experiences combined with curated entertainment and hospitality services. The company positions itself as blending real estate sales with experiential entertainment, bringing the international "sharing villa" culture to Japan's regional markets.

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BORDER is a cloud-based business travel management (BTM) service that lets employees arrange flights and accommodation via chat while automatically applying company travel policies and aggregating trip data. It serves corporate travelers and administrative departments, offering itinerary proposals, policy compliance, safety-information delivery, and consolidated invoice billing.

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NEWT is a travel app that allows users to book hotels and package tours domestically and internationally. The company operates as a digital travel agency serving consumers seeking overseas and domestic travel options in Asia, Europe, Oceania, and Africa.

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Kintetsu Taxi operates as a taxi service company within the Kintetsu Group, prioritizing safety, customer satisfaction, and reliable transportation services.

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Ctrip is an online travel booking platform offering reservations for hotels (over 1.7 million properties across 200+ countries), flights (nearly 2 million global routes), tour packages, and dining deals, with 24/7 customer support. It serves travelers and provides transparent pricing with no extra fees for cancellations or changes.

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日本エマージェンシーアシスタンス (EAJ) is a Japan-based company providing medical assistance services internationally, including emergency medical support, travel assistance, and security assistance services for customers worldwide. The company also operates as a concierge service provider and offers crisis management services for international students.

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A Japanese company that provides M&A brokerage and tourism development services, helping transfer underused tourism assets and local businesses to new operators and grow them. It focuses on Japan's tourism industry, addressing succession and labor shortages in regional areas.

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AirX is a technology company developing a digital platform for air transportation, operating helicopter and air mobility services in Japan. It offers uses such as helicopter transport to hotels and tourist destinations, sightseeing flights, heliport development on vacant land, disaster support, aircraft sales, and inbound tourism promotion.

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SmartRyde offers pre-booked airport transfer services using vetted professional drivers across 150 countries. It provides 24-hour customer support via chat, driver waiting time for flight delays, and free cancellation up to 48 hours before use.

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via-at operates a location-based digital platform that lets local tourist spots and venues offer in-place services such as hometown-tax (furusato nozei) donations, tipping, and sharing of dormant spaces. It targets Japanese regional communities and facility operators, enabling unmanned self-service management of coworking drop-ins, room and office sharing, and visitor engagement points.

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Earthboat operates outdoor hotels built around a "Nature Escape" concept, with every room at every location featuring a private sauna alongside comfortable beds and bathroom facilities. Guests can enjoy outdoor experiences such as building fires, using the sauna, and dining outside, and pets are welcome.

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Satoyume is a Japanese consulting and business-production firm focused on regional revitalization, working with municipalities and prefectures across Japan on local development projects, tourism, and hospitality ventures (including its Satoyume Hotels brand). It positions itself as a "local business incubator," also holding travel-agency and paid job-placement licenses.

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Value Golf runs online golf-booking services for Japan, including a single-player reservation system that lets individual golfers book tee times at courses nationwide and search course website booking plans. The company also offers on-course lessons, an indoor golf facility, discounted play-ticket and golf-equipment online shops, and a free monthly golf magazine.

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Best One Cruise is a Japanese-language online cruise travel agency that sells and books cruise vacations across categories such as casual, premium, and luxury ships. It offers curated itineraries (e.g. Mediterranean, Hawaii, Caribbean, Panama Canal), rankings, and customer reviews for travelers, primarily serving the Japanese market.

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Best One Dot Com is an online travel agency (OTA) specializing in cruise travel and sea voyages, handling bookings across major cruise lines such as MSC Cruises, Royal Caribbean, and Princess Cruises. Based in Japan, it operates through subsidiaries including Five Star Cruise and Ebisu Ryokan.

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Liigo is an aggregator site that lets users search and book travel experiences, tours, activities, online experiences, and dining from a range of curated sources, listing over 250,000 domestic and international offerings. It serves consumers in Japan with multi-language and multi-currency support.

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Monogatari Transport (物語運輸株式会社) discovers Japanese traditional crafts, regional specialty products, and local experiences and promotes them to international audiences through storytelling, video, and e-commerce. The company focuses on revitalizing Japanese regions and introducing their culture to overseas markets, serving both global consumers and inbound tourists to Japan.

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GreenCloud provides information technology solutions for the hospitality and lodging industry.

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