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KOBE Golden Tour

Day Trip
Kobe Tour Guide - Hideo Y.

Joined 2014

Hideo Y.
4.58 / 5
(168 reviews)
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Kobe is one of the two largest ports in Japan. The city is well sheltered by a range of hills, with a population of about 1.5 million ranking it the 8th largest city in the nation.

I can take you to Kitano Ijinkan (Foreigners' residential area), Meriken Park, Cinese market and Kobe Port Cruising.

Kobe is very famous for Kobe beef, so if you want, I can take you to Kobe beef restaurant.

Basically we use city loop bus for about 1,000JPY/person and your entrance fee is about 1,000JPY/person.

Itinerary

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09:00 AM

Meeting Point

at your hotel

09:30 AM

Kitano Ijinkan

Just after the port of Kobe opened, a lot of fireigners came to Kobe and they built their residence around Kitani elavated area. Noe about 20 houses remain.

We visit Weathercock house and Moegi house.

11:00 AM

China Town

We can have lunch at a Chinese restaurant.

We can enjoy steamed pork bun, popular local food in Kobe.

01:00 PM

Meriken Park

We visit Hanshin Awaji Great Earthquake Memorial Park.

Red Port Tower and white Kobe Marine Museum are beautiful contrast.

01:30 PM

Kobe Harbor Land

We can enjoy Kobe Port Cruising.

03:30 PM

Japanese sake brewery company

We know how to make sake in the film.

We enjoy sake tasting and buy Japanese sake.

Ending Point

at your hotel

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Inclusions & Exclusions

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What‘s included

guide fee

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What‘s not included

transportation fee (you and the guide), lunch, entrance fee

Tour Important Information

(1) If you like, we can have Kobe beef for lunch.

(2) If you have children, I can take you to Kobe Animal Kingdom. The different point from zoo is that you can enjoy watching animal performance shows and petting pretty animals. You can enjoy Pelican Flight Time, Ring-tailed Lemur Feeding Commentary at Pelican Lagoon. Furthermore you can enjoy Bird Performance Show on Water Lilies such as hawk, owl, poll parrot and the like. At the dog stage, shepherd dogs lead sheeps.

(3) You can command a panoramic view of Kobe from Mt.Rokko. Actually it is called one million dollar night view, one of the three major night views in Japan. If you want to see the beautiful night view, you can enjoy the view by using taxi for 2 to 3 hours. It costs about 10,000yen for 2 hours, and about 16,000yen for 3 hours.

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Kobe Tour Guide - Hideo Y.

Joined 2014

Hideo Y.
4.58 / 5
(168 reviews)
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About Tour Guide Hideo Y.

Hello, I'm HIDEo YOSHIda. Please call me HIDEYOSHI, the same name as the famous shogun who built the Osaka Castle in 1585.

I was born in Kobe and worked in Osaka for nearly 40 years. I would like to introduce the Kansai region to you ,including Kobe, Osaka, Kyoto, Nara, and Wakayama.

Kobe is one of the two largest ports in Japan, along with Yokohama. After the opening of the Port of Kobe in 1868, foreigners built their residences on the hillside of the Kitano-cho area, overlooking the ocean. Many of the foreign residences are now open to the public as museums, including the Weathercock House, with it's symbol weathercock on the triangle-shaped roof.

In Meriken Park, the red Port Tower (the city's landmark), creates a beautiful contrast against the white Kobe Marine Museum. The museum's design was inspired by the waves and sailing ships.

When you have a chance to visit Osaka, please join my tour. I'm sure you'll enjoy the interesting and historical, scenic spots. For example, Shin-Sekai is a downtown area with a strange mix of nostalgic atmosphere and contemporary energy. You can try local foods (kushikatsu, sushi, tempura) at a reasonable price. Billiken (a famous statue of the spirit of luck) will be waiting for you!!. Dotombori is a popular street with a lot of flashy signboards. Osaka is widely known as a "Kuidaore-no-machi", or literally "drinking and eating luxuriously to death." Osaka Castle was built by Toyotomi HIDEYOSHI in 1585. Oh, it's my residence, isn't it !

These days "The Wizarding World of Harry Potter" area in USJ, or Universal Studios Japan, is also attracting more and more people.

I'll be looking forward to seeing you !!

Reviews

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Carrie B.

5 / 5
Oct 7, 2024

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Amazing experience

Hideo Y was an amazing guide. He was knowledgeable about the places we went to. He was fun and you could tell he enjoyed showing those he guided about his country and its history. I would recommend him for any tour.

Great day tour

We did a day tour with Hideo today and had a great day. We could not have done this on our own. So many train changes he was extremely patient and knowledgeable. We are doing another tour with him o. A couple of days. Highly recommend l. Thank you

Karen G.

Thank you for an excelent review, Yes, we changed trains 7 times including transfers. We visited Arashiyama Bmboo Forest and Kimono Forest. I could show you daruma and beckoning cat in Fushimi Inari Taisha. I'm very happy to guide you one more time.

Very Flexible

Hideo-San did a great job. Good communication before we met him. On the tour, he was knowledgeable and told us many interesting things. He is also very easy to be with and talk to. We asked him to make some last minute changes to our itinerary, and he was very flexible. I also greatly appreciate that he helped us change train tickets and walked us all the way to our train in the station. We will not forget our memorable time with him in Hiroshima.

Patrick P.

Thank you for posting an excellent review. I always try to cope with guests' requests as much as possible. This time you don't have so much time, so first we started the tour 30minutes earlier. We visited Atomic Bomb Dome and Peace Memorial Museum. On the tour day Hiroshima is not so hot and humid, so I could show you many memorial monuments in the Peace Memorial Park. I could help change Shinkansen tickets directly from Hiroshima to Kyoto using JR pass. I'm sure you come back to Japan again. I wish you every success in your job.

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