【7hours】Time Travel Tour in Kyoto
Joined 2016
Join me on my private 7hour tour and discover the historical layers of Kyoto! Why do I call it "Time Travel Tour"? Because the destinations associate with four different time period within Japan's history.
Itinerary
This itinerary can be customized to meet your needs and preferences. Send me a message with your requests!
Meeting Point
JR Kyoto Station
JR Kyoto Station
Fushimi Inari Shrine
Kyoto Imperial Palace
Kenninji Temple
Ending Point
Kenninji Temple or convenient station
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This tour can be customized to meet your needs and preferences. Click below to send me a message with your requests.
Inclusions & Exclusions
Guide fee,
Guide’s transportation fee,
-Your transportation fee (details below*)
-Your lunch (details below**)
-You and your guide’s entrance fee for Kenninji Temple (details below***)
-Hotel pick-up and drop-off
*transportation fee
Public transportation ( train, subway and bus)
-Kyoto Station to Fushimi Inari Shrine ¥140/per
-Fushimi Inari Shrine to Imperial Palace ¥400/per
-Imperial Palace to Kenninji Temple ¥230/per
Note: If you need taxi for transportation, it is absolutely fine! Please contact me for the price.
**Lunch approximately ¥2,000-¥4,000/per
I have several great places to recommend you, but if you have any request I can arrange that for you too!
*** Entrance fee for Kenninji Temple
Adult ¥800/per
High school and middle school students ¥500/per
Tour Important Information
This tour includes a lot of walking. Please wear comfortable shoes.
Primary mode of transportation: public transportation such as trains, subways and buses. If you need a taxi for transportation, it is absolutely fine! Please contact me for the estimated price.
Cancellation Policy
- Free cancellation - 8 days prior to meeting time
- 50% Refund - 3 to 7 days prior to meeting time
- No Refund - Within 2 day(s) prior to meeting time
Joined 2016
About Tour Guide Lisa W.
Hi everyone! My name is Lisa.
Thank you very much for checking out my profile.
I am originally from Osaka, Japan, and completed my Bachelor’s Degree from Kyoto Prefecture University in architecture. During my stay in Kyoto I volunteered as a tour guide for foreign visitors.
After graduation I moved to Tokyo and worked in the marketing and promotions field. On weekends I continued to work as a tour guide volunteer in Tokyo.
I have also studied at the University of California, Irvine and worked for a tech company in Anaheim California. It was great oppotuniay for me to see Japan from foreigner's perspective.
My happiness for meeting new people and learning my own culture through guiding foreign visitors kept increasing and that made me decide to become a professional tour guide.
I offer tailor-made tours for individuals or groups. I have met a lot of wonderful people through tour guiding and look forward to the many more friends I will make.
My strength is the stock of Japan's historical and architectural knowledge, which I believe makes your Japan experience fun and interesting especially when you are visiting Japan's old capitals.
During my tour I will share with you historical contents of places or structures you are visiting so that you can understand the reason why you meet present Japan. I have friendly and mindful nature which will make your Japan experience greater!
Please feel free to message me if you have any question about your Japan trip!
Hope to see you soon in my tour.
Best,
Lisa
Reviews
Stephen S.
“Excellent top notch guiding”
Really good 2 day private tour. Good engagement, excellent English language skills, well organised and punctual. Lisa really helped us to understand Japanese culture and religions. We gave her a list of things we would like to see and she prioritised and ordered them into 2 days of quite intense sightseeing. We were lucky to see some really unique things and it was nice to also get a grounding in everyday Japanese life such eating different foods and general etiquette. As it was our own private tour we had the ability to slow down or speed up each attraction as we wished
Jared K.
“Lisa is the best!”
Lisa is a fantastic guide, and really helped make the most of short time in Kyoto. She has a great sense of humour, is very curious and intellectual, and above all thoughtful. Look forward to hiring her again on our next trip to Japan.
Jessica H.
“Engaging, Knowledgeable, and Fun!”
Lisa-san was such a pleasure to spend two days with. She is friendly, welcoming, and so knowledgeable. My partner and I hired her for a private two-day tour of Kyoto: she recommended a great itinerary, and even managed to fit in two more sites when we read our guide book and had a few additional gardens we wanted to see. The pace was great - time to explore the temples and grounds, learn about the history, walk through beautiful old lanes with some shopping. She welcomed all my questions - about Japanese history but also about life in modern day Japan. I took away so much more than I would have visiting these sites without her! I learned about Shinto and Buddhist rituals; samurai history; and architecture as a means of projecting power. Just stellar! Highly recommend, I’ll be telling anyone I know coming to Kyoto to reach out to her.
$467/ per group
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