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[Matubara street] Hanging around east-west street in Kyoto

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Kyoto Tour Guide - Yoshiharu K.

Joined 2018

Yoshiharu K.
4.71 / 5
(49 reviews)
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There are many old streets in old capital Kyoto area. I design a walking tour set of 31 streets.You can see the true Kyoto in this tour which is not in current tourism. It is like Kyoto of 30 years ago.In some streets, You could see traditional dying shops for Yuzen which is a traditional dyeing method of Kyoto.You can visit some of the shops and I will interpret between the shop owner and you.

Itinerary

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09:00 AM

Meeting Point

At the lobby in your Hotel (in Kyoto city)

9:00 We start from Gojou station or your hotel. Then we go over Matsubara bridge to the West.

12:00 We have lunch at the restraunt along Matsubara street.

14:00 We gat our distination, Tanbaguchi station (JR) or Saiin station(Hankyu railway)

Ending Point

Tanbaguchi station (JR) or Saiin station(Hankyu railway)

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Inclusions & Exclusions

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What‘s included

guide fee, Guide's transportation fee between guide's house and Kyoto, hotel pick-up in Kyoto city

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What‘s not included

lunch, dinner, entrance fee(If we visit. There is no place where enterane fee is needed as far as I know) ,

Public transportation fee for you and guide during the tour(less than 1000yen for each),

Hotel pick-up in Osaka city(optional).

Tour Important Information

In this tour, you can drop into your favorite shops. And the guide gives you basic explanations and interprets between you and shop clerks.

You will walk long(the street length is around 4.7km from Gojou station to Tanbaguchi station).

So you have to wear suitable shoes for walking.

The tour hours are fixed, so even if we are in the middle of course, we finish the tour.

If we leave hours, we can go a neighbor street.


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Kyoto Tour Guide - Yoshiharu K.

Joined 2018

Yoshiharu K.
4.71 / 5
(49 reviews)
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About Tour Guide Yoshiharu K.

Hi! I'm Yoshiharu. Please call me Yoshi. Yoshi means "good" in Japanese! I'm a good man (^^);;;.

I was born in Kyoto but I lived there 3 months. Then my family moved to Osaka and I grew up in Osaka.

So I am almost Osakan.

When I was young, my hobby was traveling by bicycle. I went cycling around most part of Japan except Shikoku.

In my family rule, Shikoku is in bad direction because my grand father died just after his Shikoku pilgrimage.

So I want to have a cycling tour not only in Kyoto (coming soon!) but also all part of Japan someday.

I am interested in Japanese history.

I am a National Certificated Guide. And I have "Kyoto Tourism Culture Certification 3rd grade", "Osaka Expert Certification 3rd grade", "Nara Concierge 2nd grade" and "Karuizawa Web test 3rd grade".

So I have expert knowledge about Kyoto, Osaka, Nara and Karuizawa and common knowledge about Kobe.

Besides I like gadgets, so I can guide you DenDen town in Osaka.

When you have a chance to visit Kyoto or Osaka or other city in this area,

please contact me anytime and join my tour!

I'll be looking forward to seeing you, spending wonderful time with you.

Reviews

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Salim K.

3 / 5
Nov 3, 2024

Osaka Highlights (Osaka departure)

Osaka
7 hours

Osaka Highlights

The guide was friendly and courteous but lacked the details of the sites. Too expensive, not worth the money.

Salim K.

Thank you for your evaluation. But I could not understand what you really want to do. And I should have ask it, but I confused what I should ask you and I should explain. Next time I will have effort to ask it and to explain what you are interested in. Yours sincerely, Yoshi

K

Kristin C.

5 / 5
Nov 2, 2024

Osaka Highlights (Osaka departure)

Osaka
5 hours 30 min

Great day exploring Osaka

Yoshi did a great job showing us around Osaka, helping us get a dinner reservation at a Kobe steak restaurant. Highly recommended him to show you around Osaka.

Kristin C.

Dear Kristin Thank you for your evaluation. I enjoyed the tour too as I was interesting to know the place, "only women's floor of Siseido" in department store. Anyway, thank you for your evaluation. Yours sincerely, Yoshi

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Douglas W.

5 / 5
Oct 5, 2024

Kyoto highlights (Kyoto departure)

Kyoto
10 hours 30 min

Amazing day and tour

We had an amazing day in Kyoto thanks to Yoshi who took us to some of the main attractions and sites around the city. As a first time visitor to Japan, I can’t even imagine trying to find our way around the city by ourselves but Yoshi was a very knowledgeable guide and expertly led us and answered all of our questions and more. Thank you Yoshi for making our first day in Kyoto one to always remember!

Douglas W.

Dear Douglas Thank you for your evaluation. Takayama is good place because it remains previous Kyoto's atmosphere. I hope you will have good travel in Japan. Yours sincerely, Yoshi

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