A "tailor-made" style English speaking private tour in Amami Oshima, just for you.
Explore Amami Oshima, the beautiful low-key island, to the fullest with my recommended spots and activities such as Canoeing at the 2nd biggest mangrove forest and hiking at Kinsakubaru primeval forest for the world biggest tree ferns!!
The tours can be privately reserved.
At your hotel in Amami Oshima
I'll come to your hotel to pick you up.
Enjoy an activity such as mangrove canoeing or forest hiking.
Amamiian style lunch.
Enjoy an activity such as mangrove canoeing or forest hiking.
We'll come back to your hotel.
At your hotel In Amami Oshima
-The tour is tailored to your requests, so you can enjoy exploring Amami as you wish.
-A local tour guide is available privately, so the tour will be more laid back style. Let's share our time together!
-Guide fee
-Hotel pick up
-Insurance
-Canoe rental
-Lunch(app.¥1500)
Available only in Amami Ōshima at this moment, however expecting to expand the area to Kagoshima in the main land near future.
Lunch is not included(app.¥1500).
I could not speak more highly of Eiji! Fantastic guide: very personable, knowledgeable, punctual, and just a great person to spend a day with on Amami. I had booked the longer version of his Amami Experience tour, as well as his nocturnal tour. I personally would recommend both, since you get to see completely different wildlife during the day and at night, and a nocturnal trip of the forest is truly a magical experience. The day tour consisted of driving to two different forests, with easy-to-medium level hiking. The nocturnal tour was mostly driving through the forest looking for animals, with just occasional walking along the road near the car. Eiji was highly responsive in advance of the trip to arrange all the details. I was most interested in birds, and he was very accommodating in tweaking the trip to make it ideal for me. In the end, I got to see and photograph all of the birds I was hoping for on Amami. I also got to see lots of incredible plants and animals besides birds, including Amami rabbits and the Hime Habu snake, and generally to experience the beauty of this amazing island. In case this matters, Eiji was exceptionally fluent in English, in part because he has done study abroad in the US.
I could not speak more highly of Eiji! Fantastic guide: very personable, knowledgeable, punctual, and just a great person to spend a day with on Amami. I had booked the longer version of his Amami Experience tour, as well as his nocturnal tour. I personally would recommend both, since you get to see completely different wildlife during the day and at night, and a nocturnal trip of the forest is truly a magical experience. The day tour consisted of driving to two different forests, with easy-to-medium level hiking. The nocturnal tour was mostly driving through the forest looking for animals, with just occasional walking along the road near the car. Eiji was highly responsive in advance of the trip to arrange all the details. I was most interested in birds, and he was very accommodating in tweaking the trip to make it ideal for me. In the end, I got to see and photograph all of the birds I was hoping for on Amami. I also got to see lots of incredible plants and animals besides birds, including Amami rabbits and the Hime Habu snake, and generally to experience the beauty of this amazing island. In case this matters, Eiji was exceptionally fluent in English, in part because he has done study abroad in the US.
Hi Dmitriy, Thank you for coming to my tours. Im very happy to hear that you enjoyed the tours so much! I also enjoyed searching for Amamian animals with you, as well as talking with you about a lot of things!! I hope you will enjoy birding and traveling all over the world, and come over to Japan again in the future. Arigato, Eiji
We had a great evening with our guide Eiji. He was a knowledgeable and pleasant guide giving us a lot of interesting general information on the life on the Amami island. Basically we drive slowly through two forest roads. The day was rainy, but in the evening the rain had almost stopped so the conditions were perfect. We saw many Amami rabbits, three species of frogs, woodcocks, sleeping jays, and even one hime habu so that we were fully satisfied though the drive was not so long.
Thank you for your nice review. Very happy to hear that you enjoyed the night tour so much. Arigato!
Eiji gave us a great tour of the island! We saw everything we asked to see and Eiji got us back to the ship exactly when we requested. He knows the island well and was so happy to share his homeland with us. We highly recommend Eiji for all who visit the island.
Thank you for the good review. I was very happy to have your group, curious about Amamiian culture and life, try to understand the cultural difference between us. It was very interesting for me to talk with you during the tour. Have a nice trip and enjoy your days!