Japan Private Car Tours

Rebecca D.

5 / 5

Oct 20, 2026

Kyoto Spiritual Tour!

Oct 20, 2026

Kyoto

6 hours

“Amazing personal experience ”

Michiko was an absolute gem and quite possibly one of my favorite parts of my trip. She takes excellent care of her guests and provides both so much knowledge about the places you go as well as sharing her personal stories about being Japanese. She prepares excellent itineraries and custom binders with concise summaries of stories and history behind the experiences and places. As a one on one guide, she was also very flexible with timing and easily able to accommodate my specific situations. Being late because I lost phone connection did not hamper my tour. She took wonderful pictures of me. She's a great photographer!

“Painter of the Big Picture”

It was the very first day of our Trip to Japan. Akira managed to explain the overall context of Japanese history and culture starting from Nara till today in a very knowledgeable and very entertaining way. Akira introduced us to a couple of Kyoto highlights of Shinto and Buddist culture with my personal highlight being the zen gardens of Daitoku-ji. He made the day for our daughter with the lunch in his favorite Ramen restaurant. Akira is very passionate and a true guide by hart. Thank you very much Akira for a great day !

“DO NOT BOOK THIS GUIDE”

Tatsuya is a nice guy who is a terrible guide. He picked us up at our hotel in his comfortable Lexus. The music was on and we could not hear what little he whispered as we drove to Kiyomizu temple, even after he turned down the volume. Arriving at the temple he walked 20 paces ahead through the hordes of people, and explained nothing about where we were or what we saw. When finally caught up to ask about a site or artifact, he looked it up on his phone and showed us the translation. He had no knowledge at all about the history of Kyoto. The same trend continued throughout the day. He dropped us at a rickshaw office in Arashiyama where we had a respite from his incompetence. We cut it short after that and asked him to take us back to the hotel, rather than continue to the Nishiki market with him. We had booked a second tour with him in Osaka the next day. We decided to cancel. Go With Guide has been uncooperative in giving us a refund for the second tour because of the so called 48 hour policy. We didn’t even ask for a full refund for the Kyoto tour, but they refused to consider that Tatsuya is not a guide at all and they clearly hadn’t screened or vetted him for the purpose. We will be pursuing it with the Japan Office of Consumer affairs for tourists. The situation is unacceptable.