Tokyo Wedding Photographers

Our Tokyo photographers also provide documentary-style coverage in: Chiba-Ken, Hachioji, Machida, Fuchu, Chofu, Nishitokyo, Kodaira, Mitaka, Hino

Tokyo Wedding Photography, Engagement Photo Sessions + Elopements

Intimate Wedding Photography in Tokyo - Capturing the Joy of Small Celebrations - Discover the best Tokyo photographers specializing in intimate marriages. Couples are embracing the trend of smaller, more meaningful celebrations. Let our talented photographers capture the happiness and closeness of your boutique, religious, intimate, or at-home wedding.

By planning a simple Tokyo elopement, couples are able to stay present in the moment and fully absorb the impact of their wedding day. With many couples feeling more comfortable and relaxed in intimate settings, it is not surprising that some of the most sincere and touching wedding photos are captured at smaller celebrations.

The WPJA has an abundance of top-ranked, Tokyo documentary wedding photographers available right now who understand that some weddings can’t wait. Find yours today!

Recent WPJA WedElope Story Awards

A powerful portrait of a couple holding hands while walking along a dock over a blue-green ocean captures a timeless stroll

Valeria Berti

Elopement Picture of bride and groom at their small, private ceremony among tall, green shrubbery, affording them the intimacy to share that classic kiss after saying yes

Simone Miglietta

The bride and groom had a small, civil wedding ceremony at City Hall, filled with laughter and light moments that created a fun and memorable experience

Tobias Schnurr

Tokyo Photographers for Large or Small Weddings

Shooting an elopement or small Tokyo wedding event is a wedding photojournalist’s dream: a fairly open schedule with lots of breathing space for creativity – it’s just the photographer, the couple, the officiant, and perhaps a few select companions.

Kantō Region WPJA members are ready to document any city hall, justice of the peace, micro, or any other type of elopement wedding, even if it is a Monday-Thursday ceremony. Search for the “Can Shoot Weddings on Short Notice!” message on the listings below.

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1 Tokyo Wedding Photographers...

Megumu Kohagura has been a wedding photographer since 2006, capturing genuine moments at both big and small marriage events. Since 2010, he has focused on landscape photography and also works as a commercial photographer and photo retoucher.

Megumu Kohagura

Osaka-City, Higashimikuni, JP *Now booking Tokyo weddings.

600 (USD)

Map of Wedding Photojournalists Serving Tokyo Couples

Tokyo Wedding, Elopement and Engagement Images by WPJA Photographers

Below are some Tokyo wedding photography samples from the world’s best wedding photographers of the WPJA. Some of these Tokyo marriage pictures might be artistic portraits, details, or documentary-style images that have come from getting ready sessions, wedding ceremonies, reception venues, or Tokyo engagement portrait sessions with couples.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Q: How can couples find top-ranked Tokyo wedding photographers?

A: The WPJA created the original wedding photographer ranking systems. Our innovative system is based on contest winning points, meaning that the Tokyo photographers you see at the top of your search results page have recently won the most — and the most recent — contest awards. Our contests judge photographers based on their creativity, style, composure, and ability to capture the heart of any couple's story on their wedding day.

Q: How can couples find Tokyo photographers for pre-wedding engagement portraits?

A: The WPJA issues Diamond Awards for Tokyo wedding photographers to showcase their best engagement photography work. These awards are given to photographers who prove that they have an ability to be creative, artistic, and intuitive while working on-location with couples who are newly engaged.

Q: How can couples find reviews of Tokyo wedding photographers?

A: We call them Client Letters. At the WPJA, we decided more than 20 years ago to avoid incorporating those third-person testimonials and endorsements that are found all too often in advertisements. Instead, we elevated our listings with the use of Client Letters, which represent the actual words and feelings of the clients who booked those Tokyo wedding photographers for their own wedding.

WPJA Communiqué: Featured Wedding Photography Articles

Wedding Economy: The Ups and Downs

We all know that the economy can go through some hard times, and be somewhat reminiscent of past recessions. However, as people cut back on non-essential little luxuries here and there, one constant remains: weddings. People don’t tend to just stop getting married due to a...Read more

Vows, Crowds, and Nerves: Avoid Stress with a Small Wedding

While some of us were fortunate enough to be born as extroverts, not everyone feels the same way. For a good chunk of the population, any number of the typical wedding day traditions can inspire anxiety and existential dread. This day is all about you, yes, but does that...Read more

Essential Elopement Vendor - The Photographer

So your wedding is just around the corner and you’ve decided to elope , either because you want to do this on a budget , avoid a large wedding party, or simply to enjoy the day together with minimal distractions and as little stress as possible . They say 'all you need is...Read more

WPJA Communiqué: Viewpoints

Elopements: Traditional and Modern

The oldsters among the WPJA ranks no doubt remember when 'to elope' meant, in Merriam-Webster’s definition, “to run away secretly with the intention of getting married, usually without parental consent.” Many wedding photographers have gone on the lam with couples who did just that. However, even Merriam-Webster now acknowledges that “elope appears to have become shorthand for ‘ small destination weddings ,’ a ‘ wedding that is not financially insane ,’ or a ‘ wedding that allows us to not invite all the people we would rather not invite .’” Smaller Weddings are... Read more

What is Reportage?

On Instagram and elsewhere, one can see images labeled as #photojournalism or #reportage when they are, in fact, merely photos. I say "merely," even though photography has been my career's great passion. But it's because of that passion and my respect for the work of actual photojournalists that I am particularly bothered to see wedding photographers call their work "reportage." That word properly used actually means something important beyond just a stylistic conceit. By contrast, however, I'm the lead cheerleader for those practitioners of #weddingphotojournalism ... Read more

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