The Japan Experience Team

The President

Thierry Maincent discovered Japan in 1994 during a professional internship in Tokyo, where he met his Japanese wife.
After he graduated from Paris Dauphine University in 1995, he returned to Japan between 1996 and 1998 to work with a French cooking school.

After moving back to France in 1998, he founded an online wine sales company with two friends, which was listed on the stock market in 2006. In 2010, he joined the specialized tour company Japan Experience to participate in the development of the company alongside the founder Claude Saulière. After sustained international growth, Thierry Maincent became president of the company in 2018. He splits his time between Paris and Tokyo.

Our experts in London          

            
               REBECCA                           ALEJANDRA


Our experts in Los Angeles  


               FRANK                            ERIC                          

Our experts in Paris


          MICHIKO                     LAURENCE                    ROMAIN                         JULIEN                       CLEMENT

Our experts in Berlin


            NANAE                      CHRISTIAN


Our expert in Madrid


               SARA



Our Travel Angels in Japan

in Kyoto



               SAKI                            AURORE                        JULIEN                       DAISUKE    

in Tokyo


            LAETITIA            PIERRE-ALEXANDRE

in Kanazawa


                CHRIS


in Osaka


                 YANN

in Takayama


               GWENN