Kyoto Private Tours

“Great introduction to Kyoto”

As an experienced guide and an ex-middle school teacher, Hiroshi shared lots about the history of Kyoto, Japan in general, as well as the four excellent locations we visited. Just what we hoped for. The first three world heritage sites were outstanding examples and key moments in Japan’s history, as well as very beautiful. I shan’t spoil what’s extraordinary about the fourth site, but I’m so pleased we went there. Remarkable. Thank you so much Hiroshi.

“Incredible guide, native to Kyoto”

Koichi is the guide to get! He personalized our tour today. We booked several days with him and we needed to go to Osaka today and change our tour tomorrow to Kyoto. He did that for us! He is incredibly kind, full of knowledge, gave us information but did not overwhelm us. Went out of his way to personalized the day in Osaka. We wanted certain food and he helped us to get the best restaurant for us, great meal. I wanted to stop and shop and he made sure we had time. Went out of his way at the end of the day to take us to our booked Geisha (Geiko) show that he helped us book the previous day. He is an incredible guide, very funny, lots of stories and has incredible knowledge

“Excellent local guide! So Amazing”

Koichi was born in this area and lives here too. He knows all the amazing places. Today he personalized the tour to our requests. He is so flexible and very patient! We have several days booked with him and each day keeps getting better and better! So, in our book he needs 6 stars today! Today we requested to go to Nara but really we wanted to spend half the time at Uji to get matcha. so we shortened our Nara tour and we went to Uji, he showed us the top stores to get matcha. We really felt like a local today because we spent a lot of time in smaller stores and we hit the highlights in Nara. Koichi is also teaching us a little Kanji. He makes history exciting and we are just enjoying all his mini information lectures. It's not overwhelming. He knows his way around which is awesome. He has a great sense of humor too which makes everything so fun. Thanks for another amazing day Koichi.