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Gifu Private Tour -  Nakasendo hiking with a nice Singaporean middle-aged couple
Nakasendo hiking with a nice Singaporean middle-aged couple
Gifu Private Tour - I escorted a young family with a 3 months old baby hiking Nakasendo..
I escorted a young family with a 3 months old baby hiking Nakasendo..
Gifu Private Tour - An American couple enjoying an excursion of the knife factory in Seki
An American couple enjoying an excursion of the knife factory in Seki
Gifu Private Tour - With an Italian honeymoon-guest at Tsumago,Nakasendo
With an Italian honeymoon-guest at Tsumago,Nakasendo
Gifu Private Tour - An American couple visited The Seki Traditional Swordsmith Museum.
An American couple visited The Seki Traditional Swordsmith Museum.
Gifu Private Tour - With a Chinese-American family on the cormorant-fishing-viewing boat on the Nagara river in Gifu
With a Chinese-American family on the cormorant-fishing-viewing boat on the Nagara river in Gifu
Gifu Private Tour - With guests from Australia in Takayama
With guests from Australia in Takayama
Gifu Private Tour - With the third guests from Hawaii and Samurai characters in Gifu Park
With the third guests from Hawaii and Samurai characters in Gifu Park
Gifu Private Tour - With my first guests from Sweden at Inuyama Castle
With my first guests from Sweden at Inuyama Castle
Gifu Private Tour - A lovely Canadian young family visited Seki, touring Swordsmith museum and buying some cutlery at shops.
A lovely Canadian young family visited Seki, touring Swordsmith museum and buying some cutlery at shops.
Gifu Private Tour - Cormorant fishing in Nagara River. A fishing master and birds collaborate to make one night show for guests on the river.
Cormorant fishing in Nagara River. A fishing master and birds collaborate to make one night show for guests on the river.
Tour Guide - Tetsuji Y.

Joined 2015

Tetsuji Y.

4.90 / 5
(52 reviews)
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Available Areas

Aichi, Gifu (Living), Nagoya, Takayama, Shirakawago

Languages

Japanese (Native), English

Response Time

2 hours on average

Availability Updated

4 days ago

About Tour Guide Tetsuji Y.

Hello everyone. I am Tetsuji. I worked as a public servant in the local government for 35 years. I belonged to the department of Redevelopment, Town-Landscaping, Preserving historical areas and Architectural Guidance. (I have a national 1st-class architect license.) I devoted myself to revitalizing the city by making plans and improving infrastructure for citizens.

Gifu is located in central Japan near Nagoya. As just being the crossroads of the West and the East, there are many unique attractions that are hard to discover in hectic big cities like Tokyo or Kyoto. I had a hand in restoring and preserving some of them throughout my career and want to introduce them to tourists from abroad. That’s why I became a guide-interpreter in Gifu.

I also enjoyed traveling around the world. My favorite part of each trip was walking around the city and talking with local residents. Traveling has taught me lots of things during my lifetime. Now, I would like to help others have similar experience in Japan. Shall we enjoy fantastic journey in Gifu?

Important

I can guide in Kyoto in case you support transportation fee.

Tours

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

Categories

Highlights
Highlights
Art, Culture, & Historical
Art, Culture, & Historical
Day Trip
Day Trip
Unique Experience
Unique Experience

Reviews

A great tour that took full advantage of everything Takayama has to offer

Tetsuji was a wonderful guide! He showed us all that Takayama and the surrounding area had to offer. He was knowledgeable, flexible and enjoyable to be with. With his knowledge we discovered a Takayama that we would not even known existed. Thank you Tetsuji!

Renee M.

Tetsuji Y.

I appreciate an excellent review for my tour. I am happy guiding a nice American couple who are so curious about Japanese culture, especially foods and drinks. Above all, the scene two of you enjoyed tasting Sake in a brewery is impressive. I hope that you will visit central Japan exploring attractive places with my guidance in other seasons.

Great time in Tsumago & Magome

We liked our Nakasendo hike very much. With help of excellent guide, we were even able to visit local museum. Great time and really recommend our guide Mr Tetsuji.

Kelioniu A.

Tetsuji Y.

I am grateful to hear that you are satisfied with my tour, including some praise for me. I hope to accept new requests of guiding from you.

Beautiful tour!

We thoroughly enjoyed our day on the Nakaswndo trail with Tetsuji! He added to our experience with explaining history of the trail and stories of edo era Japan. The walk was beautiful scenery and we loved the tea house we stopped at halfway between Magome and Tsumago. He also did his research prior to the tour to find a Gluten free place to have lunch and helped explain my allergy to the staff of the restaurant. Tetsuji was great and I highly recommend! I will add, the bus system was different from everywhere else we went so it was super helpful to have him there to guide us through it. We added money to our IC card the day prior and found out the day of that the bus system only used yen so keep that in mind. Thankfully we had enough yen on us, but just keep that in mind...you cannot use your IC card for transportation.

Michelle B.

Tetsuji Y.

I appreciate lots of praise for my guiding with useful information on transportation in Japan for others. Your explanation is persuasive for others to travel around Japan. I hope to see you without difficulties near future.

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