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Plum is now blooming beautifully!

Fushimi inari shrine at 7am!

Katsuoji Daruma temple is one of my favorite!

Nostalgic area Naramachi walking :)

Modern and old stick together! Osaka castle!

Little ladies learning Japanese culture :)

Unique and funny Osaka!

Enjoy Japanese winter sweets ZENZAI!

Must try! Matcha ice cream!

We spent 3days in Kyoto and Nara :) Cute little ladies love nature, animals and of course ice cream!

Minoo waterfall with autumn color

High quality cooking knives are famous in Osaka!

Colorful monkey balls temple

Colourful raccoons

Osaka local standing sake bar experience!!

Wedding photo shoot in kyoto

Red is good on Kyoto

Handmade soba noodle experience!!

Cute little boy made a wish in Kyoto ;)

It’s not a Hachiko! It’s a fox at Fushimi Inari ;)

Are you interested in Japanese craft beer!?

Rainbow Danish!? Department B1 is food heaven!

Bamboo grove at 6am

Oh guys! Make wish sooo serious!!

Welcome to unique city OSAKA!

Beautiful and relaxing Kobe Meriden park

Kobe tower with scale sky

Experience to cook your own OKONOMIYAKI!

Sake tasting!!

Monk raccoon!

Best matcha ice cream in Kyoto!!

Beautiful lotus

Osaka Expo 2025!!

Cute! Miffy loaf bread!!

How about matcha (green tea) beer!?

Samurai experience is super cool!!

KIX limited Picachu!

Kobe NADA area is famous for sake breweries!!

Cracker! Cracker!!

Peaceful Zen garden

Tetsujin 28 is Japanese version of iron man lol

Inside of Kimono forest, there is a Dragon ball!

Energetic and Healthy family :))

Nostalgic shooting game!

Modern artist fusuma door painting

Deers are full of your crackers,,, thanks for your LOVE

Have you eaten,,,,Persimmon noodles and persimmon leaves sushi in Nara!?!?

Between here and there

Kyoto Geisha version lol

Full of KAWAII in Japan!

Traditional way to fish,,, ukai

Monkey park is now baby time!!

Kimono show in Kyoto!!

Fox shrine!!

Respectful nap!

This matcha ice cream shop, you can choose 4different concentrate level of matcha!!

Happy time with relax deers ;)

Kansai No.1 popular hot spring, Arima Onsen is available for TATOO holders :))

Totoro is here!

Deer in Nara, work hard!!

I’m happy to guide you at Fushimi Inari 1000s red gates shrine more than 1000s times! It’s my favorite, too!

Expo 70 memorial, Tower of the Sun! Now you can visit inside! Art is an explosion!!

Cool embroidered satin jacket called SUKAJAN!

Tea ceremony with Maiko in Kyoto

How about Mameshiba dog cafe??

University of Utah School trip to Kyoto!

Kyoto Dynamic Dragons painting

Try golden ice cream lol Gurjeet from USA

Explore kyoto with Kimono

Cherry blossom!

Mr.Glico is running since 1935 at Dotonbori Osaka

Kyoto Kimono experience! Jack ,Kristie and their little lady Emma from Hawaii.

Beautiful old capital Kyoto has beautiful vegan meal restaurant!

Kyoto SNOOPY CAFE has japanese style of SNOOPY !!

Cup Noodle Museum in Osaka Do you know?? Instant ramen was born in Osaka!!

one of the most sacred place in Japan, Mt Koya

Instagramable coffee shop! Al and Lalita are cool couple from USA

My first owl cafe experience!! Sooooo cute!!

Tea ceremony and make your own matcha experience at Nara

Sweet lovers must try! Japanese melon pan with ice cream!!

Very rarely appear SAMURAI DOG at Kyoto lol

Why don’t you try Geisha and Oiran photo shoot experience?! (It's me XD) It’s unforgettable!!

Beautiful & Lovely couple Antonio and Alondr at Nanzenji

Ceramic deer Omikuji at Kasuga Tanisha shrine Nara

Capivara winter greeting from Onsen! Kobe animal kingdom

Kyoto Nanzenji temple. Ian and Joy are middle of autumn color!!

George found his brother at Osaka!

How heavy is your wish!?

Well preserved Himeji Castle with Yvonne and Richard from USA

She is the QUEEN of cat cafe XD

AUTUMN COLOR is right here!!

Japanese traditional winter drink AMAZAKE

Osaka the finest aquarium KAIYUKAN

Kyoto Tofukuji temple

Kyoto 3D matcha latte! You can draw bears face by your own!!

Kyoto imperial palace with enegetic senior couple Lanette and Norman from USA

Don’t eat my OMIKUJI!!

Kyoto Kiyomizu temple with Japanese school trip students :)

Make a wish with a little baby monkey doll!

Bamboo and Cherry blossom!? flavor ice cream lol

Japanese Sake tasting in local standing bar in Osaka with Franca

Hozenji Yokocho Osaka

Kyoto tour with honey moon couple John and Mayra from AUS

Kyoto Nanzen-ji Temple Autumn color has just started! Come to visit beautiful old capital KYOTO!

Last Samurai experience!! Learn BUSHI-DO spirits and 200 years old real sword experience!!

Last Samurai experience! Use real sword 200years old!!

Enjoying English Omikuji at Kasuga Taisha

Crazy parfait for lunch!? Osaka Dotonbori street with beautiful sisters Chloe and Amanda from USA

Great Buddha statue Nara

Kofukuji temple Nara

Abeno Harukas 300 building in Osaka 300metes high heliport tour AMAZING!

Osaka Shinsekai Tsutenkaku tower

Osaka Katsuoji Temple (Daruma temple)

Osaka Expo 70 Park

Kyoto Maiko experience with Gregory and his beautiful family

Osaka NGK comedy theatre

Nara Okadera temple

Osaka Sumiyoshi Taisha shrine

Nara famous kamameshi restaurant Shizuka

Kyoto Zen garden

Kyoto Arashiyama Tenryuji Temple in spring

Kobe Animal Kingdam

Wakayama Kumano Kodo pilgrimage

Joined 2018

Kaori K.

4.96 / 5

(182 reviews)

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Available Areas

Hyogo, Kyoto, Nara, Osaka (Living), Kobe

Languages

English

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2 hours on average

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4 days ago

About Tour Guide Kaori K.

Hello! My name is Kaori.

When I was young I was interested in tourism.

I was studying and working as tour conductor around Kanto area in Japan.

I lived abroad from my early 20s to mid 30s.

Australia, Taiwan, Central America, Great Britain, Spain and Italy.

Now I came back and live in Osaka where I was born.

The reason why I applied for the tour guide is because I was pleased when I guided my foreign friends around Japan.

Me personally love traveling a lot.

Especially trekking in the mountains and MTB trip by myself!

I’ve done El Camino De Santiago in Spain 4times!

Camino francés, Vía de la plata, Camino Norte, Camino de Madrid, Camino de San Salvador, Camino primitivo.

I’ve done Kumano Kodo pilgrimage, too.

I’ve travelled around Morocco, Greece and Italy by MTB :)

I love adventure!

I love to look up sightseeing informations and listen to the story of travelers!

In japan I also lived in several different prefectures such as Osaka, Nara, Wakayama, Tokyo, Kanagawa.

I might be able to guide you not only popular touristic sites but also to local hidden sights!

Please focus things what you like and want!!

I promise to do my best to organize a tour that is consistent with your interests!

Thank you for paying attention for my self-introduction.

I’m looking forward to see you soon.

LOVE

Kaori

Important

NOTICE: I’m an English only tour guide.

My Spanish & Chinese are conversation level.

I am sorry for people looking for Spanish OR Chinese tour guide.

Tours

All tours can be customized for you. Send me a message with your requests!

Osaka Beginner`s Tour

-The most popular spot Osaka Castle -Nostalgic town ‘Shinsekai’ soul food Kushikatu and Doteyaki lunch.-Feel the vibrant city Osaka! Doton Bori area walking-Try some Japanese sake at a local standing sake barThis is my basic Osaka city tour for Osaka beginners!

Osaka Beginner`s Tour

FROM$271/ per group

Kyoto

6 hours

Kyoto beginner’s tour

Kyoto popular spots & must visit spots -Fushimi Inari 1000s Ted Torii gate shrine -Kiyomizudera temple (world heritage) -Ninenzaka & Sannenzaka -Gion geisha district -Kinkakuji Golden temple (world heritage)

Kyoto beginner’s tour

FROM$271/ per group

Nara

6 hours

Nara Beginner’s Tour

This is a Nara tour to visit the highlights. We will meet at Nara Station or at your hotel in Nara. We will stop by: -Nara deer park -Kofukuji temple pagoda -Todaiji great buddha hall -Kasuga taisha shrine -Naramachi old housing area If you like me to pick you up at Kyoto or Osaka Hotel, please ask. Possibly time & price will change.

Nara Beginner’s Tour

FROM$271/ per group

Osaka

6 hours

Osaka Beginner`s Tour

-The most popular spot Osaka Castle -Nostalgic town ‘Shinsekai’ soul food Kushikatu and Doteyaki lunch.-Feel the vibrant city Osaka! Doton Bori area walking-Try some Japanese sake at a local standing sake barThis is my basic Osaka city tour for Osaka beginners!

Osaka Beginner`s Tour

FROM$271/ per group

Kyoto

6 hours

Kyoto beginner’s tour

Kyoto popular spots & must visit spots -Fushimi Inari 1000s Ted Torii gate shrine -Kiyomizudera temple (world heritage) -Ninenzaka & Sannenzaka -Gion geisha district -Kinkakuji Golden temple (world heritage)

Kyoto beginner’s tour

FROM$271/ per group

Nara

6 hours

Nara Beginner’s Tour

This is a Nara tour to visit the highlights. We will meet at Nara Station or at your hotel in Nara. We will stop by: -Nara deer park -Kofukuji temple pagoda -Todaiji great buddha hall -Kasuga taisha shrine -Naramachi old housing area If you like me to pick you up at Kyoto or Osaka Hotel, please ask. Possibly time & price will change.

Nara Beginner’s Tour

FROM$271/ per group

Reviews

Abhijit B.

5 / 5

Dec 5, 2025

Nara day trip from Kyoto (27th)

Dec 5, 2025

Nara

8 hours

Customized

“Kaori’s resourcefulness helped rescue our trip”

We had reached out to Kaori to be our guide for 4 days across Kyoto and Osaka, little realizing at that time that her resourcefulness is what would help us to complete our Japan visit without missing a beat. When the morning after Day 1 my wife sprained her ankle, even before we stepped out of our hotel that morning, and I thought that this was the end of our visit, Kaori literally took charge! Always cheerful and confident, she sprang into action and with lightning speed arranged for a wheel chair, a cane to help my wife walk a little at the attractions, some medicines to help, hired a van (since we were 5 as a family) to travel point to point, and took us around to most of all the places we wanted to visit as if nothing had happened. For the next 3 days she was right by my side and on her own shared the responsibility to push the wheelchair almost half of the time, so I could be freer to explore the attractions more and take pictures. She even called up the airline’s Japan office and arranged for a wheelchair for my wife so that even at airports my wife could transit without any worries. Thank you, Kaori, for all your help beyond just being our guide. We simply could not have enjoyed Kyoto and Osaka without you!!

Marcus L.

5 / 5

Nov 24, 2025

Osaka daytime tour for Marcus clients

Nov 24, 2025

Osaka

6 hours

Customized

“Osaka day tour”

The group had a great tour with Kaori. Thanks for your patience and expertise, Kaori.

Kaori K.

Hello Marcus! Thank you for your review :) 9 ladies are very sweet, energetic and good to care each other! I had great time with them :) Thank you very much for choosing me as a guide ;)) Kaori

Chase G.

5 / 5

Nov 18, 2025

Osaka Beginner`s Tour

Nov 18, 2025

Osaka

6 hours

“A wonderful day in Osaka”

Kaori was a delightful guide & gave us a great beginner’s tour of Osaka! She had great recommendations for food, sights to see, & a good sense of humor/personality. I would absolutely book another tour with her.

Kaori K.

Hello Chase:) Thank you for your comment of our tour! It was relaxing fun time :) you and your mom are very much interested and respect Japanese culture and history. I was so happy to visit museum together. Wish you had good flight back to home. Thank you for your gift, too! Me and my friends enjoyed cherry chocolate :) And apple is on my key now! Kaori