Japan Private Car Tours

“Fantastic Tour, Great guide, Highly recommended”

Yoshiko provided us with a tour well above our expectations. Her pre tour questions and planning meant she designed to tour just for us, showing us places we would never have seen or learnt about, without her guidance. Yoshiko was very well prepared with excellent knowledge of each location and had hand outs or printed material where she thought it would be of interest to us. Yoshiko had obviously done a lot of homework on the locations we visited. Her new van was most comfortable and she even made sure there were cool drinks for us on board. She did not not hurry us along and seemed to not mind any detours or late finishes, even dropping us at our hotel each evening. Very prompt arrival each morning. Even rang our our hotel to arrange to leave our bags for a few hours so we didn't have to carry them first morning. Good English and very friendly and gave us very good information all along the tour as we were driving around. There were no hidden costs, Yoshiko explained exactly what was included in the tour, before the payment was made. Yoshiko made contact a number of times before the tour to let us know it was still on schedule and making sure we were also still OK. I would highly recommend Yoshiko to anyone traveling to Nagano / Matsumoto region and I would certainly ask Yoshiko to guide us again if we returned to Japan Nagano region.

“Go with Michael”

Michael was top notch. I am a seasoned traveller and have experienced many guided tours. He was proactive with communication prior to the day of our tour, to confirm date and location of meeting. He was flexible to my interests. In fact he surprised me with a visit to a Totoro statue since I mentioned I liked kitsch. For the other sites, he was a wealth of knowledge about the Udo temple and the Obi castle, but willing to be honest when he didn’t know the answer to one of my obscure questions. He was an interesting conversationalist and was calm when he had to figure out a new route when we encountered a marathon. We apparently finished early and he asked if there was anything else I wanted to see to ensure I got maximum value for my tour fee. I enjoyed my day with Michael, finding him engaging, knowledgeable and honest. Would highly recommend.

“Authentic tour with a glance of competences ”

Dear Kanae, you make our day! She create a unique tour on Lake Biwa/Omi. This tour included walks, try of local products- not only Omi Beef but also baumkuchen from original manufacture - Tempel ceremonie on Sunday morning, local farmer products and last but not least the drive tour back to Kyoto through the mountains. Thank you Kanae that you give us the chance to discover Kyoto from different perspectives We are looking forward to meet you again Daniela and Michael