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Leeds entrepreneurs continue rail travel innovation, with sights set on Japan

Philip Cabra Netherton, managing director of Euroventure, and Jack MacHugh, co-founder of Japan Rail Planner

Two Leeds-based businesses have launched innovative new travel products focused on Japan Rail trips – and they’ve partnered up so their products can be used together.

Euroventure has launched Japan rail packages to run alongside their already established European interrail packages. The overall goal is similar; to help people discover parts of the world they’d never think about visiting. This addition of Japan is incredibly important as the tourism industry in Japan will only increase around the time of the Rugby World Cup and the Olympics in 2019 and 2020 respectively. This partnership enables travellers to work alongside experts in the field and find customisable trips to suit their needs whilst successfully balancing the value-for-money scale.

Meanwhile, JackJack Ltd has launched Japan Rail Planner, a free trip planning tool for people who wish to travel around Japan by rail. The website simplifies the planning process by helping people to create a route on a map, calculate trip costs, and search for accommodation on popular aggregators like Hostelworld and Airbnb – among many other things!

Once you’ve finished planning on Japan Rail Planner, you can submit your trip to Euroventure to package it up for you.


Both companies have been focused on European rail travel until now. JackJack Ltd operates Interrail Planner and Eurail Planner, whilst Euroventure has a successful existing business selling European rail packages. The companies first started working together to offer package booking to users of Interrail Planner and Eurail Planner.

With tourism from UK to Japan growing at a rate of 10% year-on-year, as well as global sporting events set to take place in Japan, these collaborating Leeds entrepreneurs are poised to make the most of the opportunity in Japan travel.