Private & Custom KYOTO walking tour allows you to “Tailor Your Itinerary” to fit your specific travel expectations. You have your own private English speaking Travel Companion for approximately 8 hours. Our team assists you to draft itinerary, prepare tickets, book restaurants/local experiences, take pictures, communicate with local vendors, direct you to the destinations, keep time, assist you throughout the trip and more!
STEP1: Please select your favorite destinations from "What to Expect" and share with us your other special requests
STEP2: Our team draft your tentative custom itinerary and share with you
STEP3: We revise/finalize the itinerary base on your feedback
STEP4: Let's explore KYOTO
REMARKS
A. You can always make change to the itinerary even while traveling. The tour is flexible to your own needs and goals.
B. Extra charges will be applied for over time service
Posted By : wbm825i
I wished that we had more time to explore Kyoto. We were on a cruise so not enough time to explore the place. Rio was good and quite patient with us being seniors.
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Posted On : 2024-04-15 17:53:42 
Posted By : Tusya11
Though the whole day on foot, that was worth it. Really good tour and we had a very good guide - Taka
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Posted On : 2023-12-28 17:01:28 
Posted By : Keechor
The guide was from Osaka and he did not appear to be familiar with Kyoto. He was more like a chaperone accompanying us rather than a local guide. It would be great if he could start the tour with a short introduction of Kyoto like the history and development over the different era. While he did give some information about each attraction, the presentations were general and superficial. He was mostly quiet during the tour and transfers.
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Posted On : 2023-08-03 20:23:41
Posted By : CBrando89
Don was an excellent tour guide! He sent us a text soon after booking asking about our preferences on what we wanted to see and what we wanted to eat (along with asking about allergies/food preferences/if we wanted his recommendations). We chose to view the major historical parts of Kyoto, and he tailored his guided tour towards that! He even offered to meet us at a place of our choosing.
We spent all day in Kyoto and he offered some history on the things we were seeing, he helped us navigate Kyoto through the subway/buses, and he guided us to a traditional ramen/udon shop to eat lunch! He also took pictures of our group for us!
10/10, would recommend.
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Posted On : 2023-07-20 23:16:45
Posted By : Bernard_B
Femin was great. He did a super job answering my son's questions. Always smiling and trying to help, it was fun to pass the day with him.
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Posted On : 2023-07-10 04:21:51
Posted By : angelpN4022QZ
Shenji was the best tour guide and photographer! We got the Itinerary, but decided to change things up the last minute. He was able to obtain a last minute kimono rental and we eliminated the last stop on our itinerary to make time for it. Our photos are fabulous! He knew the spots to stop at the bamboo forest and everywhere he took us. Thank you so much for the great memories and photos!
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Posted On : 2023-06-23 23:50:35
Posted By : Megan_W
The night before our tour, the arranged guide messaged us to say he was unwell and would try to find a last-minute replacement. The guide we met the next morning was very friendly and enthusiastic, but he was a college student who had been in Japan for two years and could not speak or read Japanese. Even if he did not know much about the locations we visited, it would have been fine if he only helped us navigate the public transportation routes. To my dismay, he had to rely heavily on Google Maps the entire way and even got lost a couple times. At one point I found it faster to just find the directions myself, and he followed along with the rest of the group. I am grateful that he showed us how to use the buses and took photos for us, but I do not believe that this service was worth the price. I'm not sure what goes on behind the scenes for this tour, but the "travel companions" should definitely be better trained.
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Posted On : 2023-06-21 19:19:05
Posted By : christinnec2017
We had a wonderful time with our tour guide Jerome. From start to finish, it felt like the tour was well organized. The tour operator asked us about preferences ahead of time and we received our itinerary from Jerome several days before our scheduled tour. We were even asked about our food preferences. We were able to visit all the sites we wanted to see and even got to see some of the neighborhoods around the sites as we walked. Jerome was so helpful. He helped us get IC cards, taught us how to use them and reload them, etc, how to navigate the stations. We learned about local customs, some history about the sites. Lunch was great. It is a lot of walking but we expected that considering all we wanted to see. Jerome was very attentive and took lots of pictures for us, this was much appreciated. He gave us options throughout the day such as whether we wanted to spend some time shopping, rent a kimono, etc. Given that we had a very limited time in Osaka, this was a wonderful way to get to see Kyoto efficiently. Highly recommend. I traveled with kids, aged 8-13 and they were able to keep up. We were tired at the end of the day but we had a lovely time. Well worth it.
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Posted On : 2023-06-15 07:35:39
Posted By : F4933KOerick
Great experience! Our guide Nazir was amazing. He was so knowledge of the area and the history. We would have never been able to see everything on our list without him.
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Posted On : 2023-05-30 23:25:53
Posted By : AnthonyT47
We had a wonderful time with Nada. She was quite knowledgeable about Kyoto. Thank you very much Nada!
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Posted On : 2023-05-29 19:57:26
