Japan Nature Guides is a dedicated team of field specialists with many years of guiding birders, birdwatchers, naturalists, photographers and film crews in search of Japan's birds and mammals.

We specialize in leading small groups, individuals and couples and cover the entire country from Hokkaido to the Nansei Shoto.

Our team includes:

• full-time international bird and nature guide Dr Mark Brazil
• full-time national bird guide Kaz Shinoda
• local bird guide Koji Niiya

Japan Nature Guides is also the producer of books, digital and online guides, including:

• the continually expanding A Birdwatcher's Guide to Japan Online by Mark Brazil and Chris Cook.
• Mammals of Japan App for the iPhone (forthcoming) by Mark Brazil.
• Dancing Cranes and Flying Fish: The Nature of Japan (Essays on the Natural History of the Japanese Archipelago) by Mark Brazil with illustrations by Hisashi Masuda. To be published in 2012.