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While Jones was in charge of Japan, he spent a day with the Bundesliga club in a bid to learn from the former Barcelona boss.
The 55-year-old explained that he transferred many of Guardiola's principles to his coaching of the Japanese team because they were physically inferior to many of their opponents.
"I like watching other sports and was always fascinated by the way Barcelona played," he told BBC Sport.
"I loved the way they moved the ball into space, and particularly coaching Japan where I had a small team we had to move the ball and beat teams by moving the ball.
"So I thought, 'if there's one bloke in the world I should see, then it should be him [Guardiola]'.
"Luckily enough I was able to organise it and spend a really profitable day with him.
"I think I said I was embarrassed at the end about how badly I had been coaching for the previous two years, how hard he worked the players - these are the best players in the world, earning £300,000 a week and he was driving them to be better.
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