Privacy Policy
Last updated 29 October 2026
This page explains how Japan Hidden Gems SAKURA (Japanese edition: 桜る子のはじめての東京ガイド; “this site”) handles personal information and cookies, and sets out our disclaimer.
Personal information
If you contact us, we may receive personal information such as your name and email address. We use it only to reply to you, and we never share it with third parties without your consent, except where required by law.
Messages are collected through Google Forms. What you enter is stored on Google’s services and handled under Google’s privacy policy. It is not stored on this site’s server.
Advertising
This site uses a third-party advertising service, Google AdSense. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this site and other websites. These cookies do not contain personally identifiable information such as your name, email address, postal address or phone number.
Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visits to this site and other sites on the internet. You can opt out of personalised advertising in Google Ads Settings, or opt out of third-party vendors’ cookies for personalised advertising at www.aboutads.info.
For more on how Google uses cookies, see How Google uses cookies in advertising.
Affiliate programmes
This site takes part in affiliate programmes including Amazon Associates, Rakuten, Klook, Japan Experience and Travelpayouts. If you buy or book through a link in an article, we may earn a commission from the partner. This never increases the price you pay.
When you follow such a link, the partner may set a cookie to record that the visit came from this site. Any purchase or booking takes place on the partner’s own site, under the partner’s privacy policy. Your name, address and payment details are never shared with us.
As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases.
Whether or not a link earns a commission, articles are based on places we have actually visited and on information checked with official sources.
Analytics
To learn which articles are useful, this site uses two analytics services. Cloudflare Web Analytics counts visits without cookies and without identifying anyone. Google Analytics 4 uses cookies to count visits, with IP addresses anonymised.
Both report only totals, such as pages viewed, country, browser and referring site, and neither is used to identify you. You can refuse or delete cookies at any time in your browser settings, and Google provides an opt-out browser add-on for Google Analytics. Every article remains fully readable if you do.
Third-party services
Some articles embed Google Maps, and the site links to Instagram, X and Pinterest. These services may collect data under their own privacy policies when their content loads or when you follow a link.
Disclaimer
Information on this site was checked against official sources at the time of writing, but we cannot guarantee that it is accurate or complete. Prices, opening hours, train services and other details change. Please check the official websites for the latest information before you travel or book.
We accept no liability for any loss arising from the use of information on this site, or for the content of external sites linked from it.
Copyright
The text, photos and illustrations on this site are protected by copyright. Please do not republish them beyond fair quotation, and do not use them to train AI models. If you quote this site, please link to the original page. Some photos are free stock images, whose copyright remains with their photographers.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy when necessary. Changes take effect when they are posted on this page.
Contact
For any questions about this site, please use the form on our contact page, or reach us on X (@sakurasaku_EN) or Instagram.
Run by Sakuruko (sakurasaku nippon), Tokyo.