Pre-Wedding Photo Gallery in Japan | Tokyo, Mt. Fuji, Okinawa

Pre-wedding photography in Japan by the creative team behind TAMAKI — kimono in temple gardens, shoin rooms and tatami light, Asakusa and Tokyo after dark, the Okinawa coast, and ceremony days. Each frame is chosen for light and composition rather than for the location alone — what you are looking at is the standard we hold, not a catalogue of famous spots.

Every photograph on this page is published with the permission of both the photographer and the people in it.

Kimono in Japanese gardens

Wagasa parasols, ancient pines and the particular green of a tended Japanese garden — the frames most couples picture when they imagine a pre-wedding shoot in Japan.

Couple in kimono walking beneath pine trees with red and violet paper parasols on a Japan pre-wedding photoshoot

Pine garden

Wagasa parasols

Pine avenue

Ancient pine

Garden gate

Detail of hakama and kimono hems as a couple walk a gravel garden path

Walking together

Asakusa & Tokyo after dark

Kimono on old streets, temple gates and neon — and the city’s landmarks once the lights come on. The Tokyo that looks like nowhere else.

Asakusa

Couple in kimono walking hand in hand down a quiet Tokyo back street

Asakusa

Couple in kimono in front of a wooden second-hand bookshop in Tokyo

Asakusa

Couple in kimono in silhouette against Tokyo neon at night

Tokyo after dark

Couple in kimono beneath the neon signs of a Tokyo entertainment district at night

Tokyo after dark

Tokyo Station

Bride in a long gown seated inside a lit stone arch beside a Tokyo river at night

Riverside at night

Okinawa

Ryukyu stone, white sand and the particular blue that only the far south of Japan has.

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Okinawa

Couple sitting on grass beside Ryukyu stone walls with the ocean behind

Okinawa

Sunset beach

White sand

Blue sky

Shoreline

Couple face to face in silhouette as the sun sets over the Okinawa sea

Last light

Wide view of a couple on white sand beside turquoise Okinawa water

Turquoise shore

Couple on a cliff above a turquoise cove on the Okinawa coast during a pre-wedding photoshoot

Cliff cove

Couple seated on a coral stone wall under a bright blue Okinawa sky

On the wall

Bridal veil sweeping across a sunset sky in silhouette in Okinawa

Veil at sunset

Couple holding a sunflower bouquet on an Okinawa beach under a blue sky

Sunflowers

Silhouettes

Sparklers

Ceremony day

Work from wedding days themselves — the morning preparations, the family, and the moment of leaving.

Bride in a full gown seated at her wedding venue before the ceremony

Ceremony day

Bride under her veil embracing her mother on the wedding day

Ceremony day

Bride in the car on her wedding day, seen through the open window

Ceremony day

Heritage doors

Bride and groom framed by a veil catching the low sun during a photoshoot in Japan

Backlit veil

Couple standing under festoon lights as snow falls at a winter photoshoot in Japan

Winter snowfall

Groom lifting the bride's veil before a cross of light in a modern Japanese chapel

Chapel light

Tokyo Tower & the Sumida river

The city at its most recognisable — a white gown against steel, and the river bridges at Skytree.

Tokyo Tower

Bride on a riverside bridge with Tokyo Skytree in the distance

Sumida river

The details

Rings, bouquets and the hem of a kimono — the small frames that carry the texture of the day.

Wedding rings held in cupped hands above the white silk of a shiromuku kimono

The rings

Newlywed hands showing wedding rings against the turquoise water of an Okinawa beach

Rings by the sea

Bouquet

Rings and flowers

Bouquet held against sunlight sparkling on the Okinawa sea

Sea sparkle

Dried flower bouquet backlit by the afternoon sun

Dried bouquet

Mt. Fuji

Mid-April on the shore of Lake Kawaguchi — shiromuku and montsuki under the cherry blossom, then the torii, the vermilion gate and the cedar path of a shrine at the foot of the mountain. One real day, in the order it was walked.

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Cherry branch

Couple standing together beneath a large cherry tree in bloom

Beneath the tree

Couple in kimono pausing on a shrine path to look up at the cherry blossom

Looking up

Soft-focus portrait of a bride in white kimono among cherry blossom

Soft blossom

Bride and groom walking beneath a torii gate lined with cherry blossom

Walking through

Couple facing each other beneath a torii gate with cherry blossom overhead

Beneath the torii

Shrine approach

Shrine gate

Toward the gate

Bride in shiromuku and wataboshi and groom in montsuki standing formally before a shrine hall

At the hall

Komainu

Smiling

In profile

More from Okinawa

The rest of the Okinawa work — reef and shoreline, banyan shade, Ryukyu stone, and the long golden hour that only the far south gives you. This section grows as new work comes in.