James Mundy

Special subjects: Gunma, Scuba diving, Japanese history

James Mundy, or “Japan Jim” as he is known to his legions of fans, is the PR & Marketing powerhouse behind InsideAsia Tours.

A West Ham fan, diving enthusiast and Japanese history buff, Jim spent three years living in the mountains of rural Gunma Prefecture as an English teacher before moving to Tokyo, where he occasionally signed autographs as Bruce Willis and narrowly missed out on becoming the presenter of a UK culture show in Japan.

What was Japanese television’s loss was our gain, and since 2005 Jim has gone from being an IJT tour leader to PR & Marketing Manager, celebrating his tenth anniversary with the company in May 2015.

Beyond Japan, Jim has travelled widely – especially in Southeast Asia – and now turns his many talents to our operations in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Burma. Unfortunately, “Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Burma and Japan Jim” doesn’t quite roll off the tongue.

Alternative Tokyo: Mixing in the right circles

Posted on March 12, 2019 by James Mundy

Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Our Insiders are a great bunch, full of interesting stories and local knowledge. James Mundy joins the team to discover Tokyo off the beaten track on one of our Inside Circle tours. Like this post? Help us by sharing it!

Supercars: An alternative way to see Tokyo

Posted on January 25, 2019 by James Mundy

Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Former Tokyo resident James sees a different side of the capital behind the wheel of the world’s finest supercars. Like this post? Help us by sharing it!

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2017: What’s hot in Japan for the year of the rooster

Posted on January 13, 2017 by James Mundy

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2017: What's hot?

Like this post? Help us by sharing it! After 17 years in the Japan travel business, you might have thought we’d seen everything there is to see. And it’s true – we have explored every inch of Japan, toured every prefecture, eaten in thousands of restaurants and slept at countless hotels. Yet in a country […]

East photo competition #1: Staff favourites

Posted on July 12, 2016 by James Mundy

Like this post? Help us by sharing it! If you’re an avid reader of East, the Inside Asia Tours travel magazine, you’ve probably already heard about our photo competition. In our first issue, the theme of our competition was ‘water’ – and we gave away a luxury trip to Japan for our lucky winner, Adrian […]

Japanese vending machine bottled bliss

Posted on October 30, 2015 by James Mundy

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Like this post? Help us by sharing it! John McMillen returned to the Boulder office in Colorado after his jaunt to Japan. It was hot work and John made it his mission to try most of the drinks that you’ll find in some of the many vending machines in Japan. There are a lot of […]

HYPERJAPAN InsideJapan Competition

Posted on July 9, 2015 by James Mundy

Like this post? Help us by sharing it! From July 10th to 12th 2015, the team at InsideJapan Tours will be heading over to the O2 Arena in London to exhibit at HYPERJAPAN 2015! For this event, we’ll be holding a competition through Instagram in which attendees can win some cool Japanese prizes! “But how […]