Tokyo to Kyoto Tours

What people love about Tokyo to Kyoto Tours

• Traveled in August

  5

  This was such an amazing trip. It's a great mix of modern culture and traditional Japanese experiences. Our guide was perfect in making sure we all had a wonderful experience, and tailor-made recommendations for our own free time. There was a great mix of included experiences and down time to explore and eat on our own. The included activities were some of the highlights of our trip. Overall, it's an awesome tour for an overview of the great places in Japan.

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• Traveled in January

  4

  DISCLAIMER: NOT A GROUP TOUR. This is a tour where you are required to make your way to a meeting point where you join a guide(who is with another tour company) along with other people who booked through another company(e.g.: via Viatour, Limon, HungryOsaka) who also signed up for a tour, but not the tour you have signed up for with Tourist Journey. You are not with the same people every day of this tour. Hotel selections were great and close to or easy to get to metro. Rooms are small for two people so try not to bring too much luggage or buy lots while there. Breakfast not included at hotel in Tokyo, but the breakfast at the hotel in Kyoto offered decent selections for all diets but was very crowded due to bus groups. Some of the tour guides were great, especially Tim, from USA, in Osaka. We were blown away by the amount of information and history he knew everywhere we went. A big thanks to Andy for helping us figure out how to navigate the Kyoto station and getting us to Osaka, while also providing extra recommendations based on our likes after the tour had finished and we still had time left to do things in Osaka. Mark, from Japan, was excellent at keeping us together, navigating through big crowds at Tsukiji fish market, and had us eating delicious authentic foods. He was also full of knowledge of the area and always had an answer to all our questions. K, from China now living in Japan for studies, did a wonderful job at trying to answer our questions while at stops and provided excellent food suggestions throughout the day. He was kind and knowledgeable and managed to keep us all together and on time at every stop during the Mt Fuji day tour. In Kyoto, Adrian(?, from New Zealand) seemed new to the tour as a guide but still managed to show us all the interesting things along with providing whatever knowledge he could give regarding the Gion area and Geikos when asked a question. Toshi, from Japan, in Kyoto, was also excellent at keeping us all together, stressing the importance of being on time and had plenty of knowledge and information, along with a funny personality, everywhere we went. Our tour guide barely provided any information the entire day of the Tokyo day tour. We were left to ask a lot of questions but the language barrier prevented us from getting an answer or having the tour guide understand what we were asking so it just felt like we were strolling around and not learning much about the locations we were at. We enjoyed the locations that were picked for this tour, however, we were small groups every day and I felt like we could have had extra time in some places. For the cost of the tour, day one could have been filled with something as opposed to it just being an "arrival to the hotel" day. I wish there could have been a little bit more involved in Kyoto and learning about its history. On the travel day from Tokyo to Kyoto, it was a nightmare. Instructions on how and where to access tickets were incorrect. Even after showing the agents in the station pictures, tickets, and the information that was provided to us in the email, we still had a lot of trouble with language barriers trying to find where to get our tickets or where to go. It took us almost two hours to figure out how to leave Tokyo. We also experienced this hiccup for the Kyoto to Osaka tour day. I would recommend this tour for folks who are comfortable navigating metro systems and looking for a quick Japan tour.

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• VickieTraveled in December

  5

  Mitch was a great tour guide. He was knowledgeable and very calm when faced with problems out of his control. I would not hesitate to travel with him again. I do feel that the tour was a little short. In reality it is only a 6 day tour not 8.we didn't meet until 6.30pm and after the final breakfast we were heading out. A little more guidance on weather expectations would have been useful as we come from Myanmar from hot weather so we had to make a last minute dash to shop for warmer clothes. We were in snow for at least 60% of the time so we were unprepared. A suggested change to your last-minute.com

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