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Let's enjoy Lake Biwa cruise and National Treasure Castle!
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Joined 2018
Hikone Castle is one of the five National Treasure castles. The castle is on the hilltop and you can see beautiful scenery of Lake Biwa and castle town. Beside the castle, there is a beautiful Japanese garden, named "Genkyu-en". If you like, you enjoy a cup of green tea with Japanese sweet. After lunch at the castle town, let's enjoy cruise to a small sacred island, Chikubu-jima. In the sacred island, there are a famous temple and a National Treasure shrine. I'm sure you like it!!
Itinerary
This itinerary can be customized to meet your needs and preferences. Send me a message with your requests!
Meeting Point
At your hotel or Hikone Station
Hikone Castle
Let's enjoy National Treasure castle and beautiful Japanese garden!
enjoy lunch time at nostalgic castle town
You can choose your favorite Japanese food at many restaurants at nostalgic castle town.
Hikone Port for Lake Biwa cruise
Let's enjoy cruising for 40 minutes to Chikubu-jima island.
Chikubu-jima island
strolling around the sacred small island, you can see beautiful shrine and temple.
return to Hikone Port
You can ride the shuttle bus from the port to Hikone Station
Ending Point
Hikone Station
Want to personalize this tour?
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, hotel pick-up fee, transportation fee for guide
transportation fee for you, lunch for you and guide, cruise fee and admission fee for you and guide
Tour Important Information
admission fee for Hikone Castle and Japanese garden include cruise fee is 3300 yen per a person
Important message from the supplier
I will guide you every day except for the day that my schedule is not vacant.
I'm a local guide of Gifu, Nagoya and Aichi, but I can guide you around Kyoto, Nara, Osaka, Kanazawa, Takayama and Shiga if you pay my transportation fee.
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 2018
About Tour Guide Yuriko S.
I am Yuriko from Gifu Prefecture. I was an assistant English teacher at junior high school. I started to work as a National Certificate tour guide in 2019.
I'm very interested in kimono, tea ceremony and Japanese castles. I sometimes guide in kimono. There are so many nice places to visit in Gifu and Nagoya! I also guide around Takayama, Shirakawago, Kyoto, Nara, Osaka and Kanazawa if you pay my transportation fee from my hometown. Let's enjoy Japan with me!
Reviews
Jeff D.
“Great Tour To and Through Gujohachiman”
The tour itself was a nice mix of relaxation, walking, and a small hike to Gujohachiman castle. The silk screen printing was also a very fun and simple experience. But of course all good tours are because the guide themselves are great people. Yuriko-san was a very fun and informative guide. She’s also incredibly kind and great at involving you in conversations with locals as a translator rather than just talking by herself. I also had a lot of fun learning about her life and family and sharing my stories as well. If you’re in or near Gifu prefecture, I highly recommend Yuriko-san as a guide!
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Yuriko S.
Thank you so much for posting an excellent review and wonderful comments, Jeff-san! Your comments encourage me a lot. I also had a wonderful time to talk with you while getting on a local train or walking around Gujo-Hachiman nostalgic street. Especially, it was fun for me to hear you and a staff at silk screen shop joyful conversation. Thank you for coming to Gujo-Hachiman, Gifu. I would like you to come to Gujo-Hachiman in summer. Let's enjoy bon-dancing in yukata, or cotton summer kimono together!!
Julie P.
“Nagoya Castle”
Yuriko was our tour guide and she was very friendly and knowledgeable about all sites we visited. I would highly recommend her to others who are looking for a tour in Nagoya.
Yuriko S.
Thank you for your excellent review and nice comment!! I'm so happy to read your kind comment. I really had a wonderful day in Nagoya with you, though it was too hot and humid. Please enjoy your tour in Japan and come to Japan again in different season. See you again!! Yuriko(Lily)
Abisola O.
“Lovely & kind”
She was great, very polite & lovely and full of nice facts about the different things we saw.
Yuriko S.
Dear my guests, thank you so much for posting an excellent review and comment! I also had a wonderful time with you in Kyoto. It was very hot and humid, but you looked so happy and always so smily. Please come to Japan again and I hope to see you in the future. Your guide, Yuriko
$260/ per group
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Kyoto is one of the most popular places to visit, but so crowded. If you want to enjoy quiet Kyoto, I recommend you visit there early morning. In this tour, you can enjoy bamboo grove, morning coffee at a Japanese style coffee shop and beautiful river and mountains scenery from a wooden bridge. After that, why don't you try 'washoku', or Japanese cuisine and maiko, or cute apprentice geisha's dancing? My special early morning tour will give you wonderful and unforgettable memories in Japan!!
Let's enjoy early morning Kyoto and maiko experience
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Hikone City is only an hour away from Kyoto by train and faces the largest lake in Japan. Hikone Castle, a national treasure, and its castle town are located there. There are also some old temples and shrines nearby. You feel like you have slipped back into the Edo Period ( about 200~400 years ago). This is a half-day tour where you can learn about Japan's medieval period.
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