Kochi Excursion: Customizable Tour with Expert Guide and Transport for Cruise Ship Visitors

Experience the best of Kochi on a customizable tour designed for cruise ship visitors. Enjoy expert guidance, convenient transport, and a tailored itinerary to explore the city’s highlights.

Duration: 6 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Kochi Castle - Kochi Castle is one of the few remaining original castles in Japan, meaning that it survived both the Edo and Meiji eras when many castles were destroyed. Even amongst the original castles, Kochi is notable for being one of only three where the original main gate survives. Kochi Castle is unique in one other way: it is the only…
What's Included
  • Private vehicle
  • Licensed Local Guide
  • Customizable Tour of your choice of 2-3 sites from ‘What to expect’ list
What's Not Included
  • Entrance fees, Lunch, and Other personal expenses
  • You cannot combine multiple tour groups.
  • Guide Entry fees are only covered for sights listed under What to Expect.
Additional Information

This excursion is tailored for tourists arriving in Kochi via cruise ship. We offer pickups from Kochi Shin Port and nearby accommodations.
Kochi is an intelligent, small-scale city known for its lively atmosphere. The castle in Kochi, largely intact, stands as a remarkable testament to Japanese architecture. With superb connectivity to Muroto-Misaki,…

Location
Kochi Castle
1-2-1 Marunouchi,
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Franciscogo5999em
May 7, 2025
Kochi tour - Kanako our tour guide was excellent! She was friendly, knowledgeable and spoke perfect English. She recommended the visit to the paper factory and it was a wonderful experience.
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Lfb1211
Apr 15, 2025
Hiro is 5 stars - Hiro was a wonderful guide He was easy to understand and anxious to share information and answer all our questions. He was very knowledgeable and enthusiastic He was also generous about taking pictures for us and he sent all to us . He also included comprehensive information about where we went and what we saw
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Yvonne_b
Mar 30, 2025
A nice day in Kochi - My spouse, 13-yr old daughter and I toured Kochi, Japan with Yoshi. We enjoyed ourselves very much. We had a limited amount of time in Kochi and I set a very aggressive agenda of all the things I wanted to see in a short period of time. Yoshi was able to cover my whole agenda and also throw in an observatory and the museum of dance. Despite having very little time, we felt that we got a comprehensive view of the city. Yoshi even brought a gift made in Japan for my daughter, which was a nice touch. We would recommend this tour.
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Rhansen80
Mar 14, 2025
Excellent Kochi Tour - Nori, our guide, was great. She told us so many interesting stories and customized the tour to match our desires. Each stop was amazing. The botanical gardens were beautiful. By in a few weeks/april, the remaining plants will be blooming. The castle was historic. Many photos were taken and will be treasured. We drove in a toyota crown car. Quite spacious and our driver, kogi, certainly knew his way around. It was A great tour.
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Patrick_p
Sep 26, 2024
Kochi private tour - We had a very good tour in Kochi. The castle was very impressive but lots of stairs. It was worth the effort. Nori was very informed of Kochi.
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Kari_j
Apr 5, 2025
Kochi experience - We had a very nice tour with Yoshi. We saw many wonderful sights and he shared a lot of information about what we were experiencing. We really enjoyed the castle and the view. We did have a little bit of a communication issue when asking some questions. Though he speaks decent English I think some things threw him off. All in all a nice tour.
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921kerried
Mar 17, 2025
Port Pick up Kochi Tour with with licensed guide and vehicle - Nori was an excellent and friendly tour guide . It was lovely to see more of the rural areas of Kochi. Thank you Nori for an enjoyable day and for help with translation at a Japanese pharmacy for my daughter
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Gailheller
Nov 23, 2024
Kochi Tour with a guide - The tour guide was very friendly and showed us many of the sights in Kochi.She was very flexible and we enjoyed our day. We used public transportation to get from one place to another.
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Jorgeivanv
Aug 26, 2024
Good tour but several factors prevent us to fully appreciate Kochi - Yoshi is decent and caring man who tried his best to gives us a tour around Kochi. However his english was not good.We struggle to understand him many times during the tour. Apparently, his hearing is not the best either. We, respectfuly find that his age may not have helped either. We want to stress that he is good,caring man who did his best but his lack of good english prevent us to give him a good review.
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Annette_k
Mar 23, 2025
Worst Guide Ever - Yoshi was the worst guide of our 6 week trip. He literally read from a piece of paper at every stop including a lookout over the city to explain what buildings were where. The gardens weren’t really in season, but he had a script he was going to follow, and he would stop in front of a bare plant and talk for 10 minutes about what it would be. There were some beautiful flowering trees and then he took us to a green house. We had already spent way too much time looking at bare plants and dirt and then we get to the greenhouse full of beautiful orchids and other plants and he runs through there. We all wanted to enjoy the beautiful plants, and he raced right past them. He said later “they weren’t Japanese”. After spending way too much time looking at plants that were not in season and he says we now only have 30 minutes at the temple. He wasn't able to answer simple questions. (language barrier or lack of knowledge?) Unlike yesterday where the guide was so helpful in assisting us with ordering lunch, he was useless. It was a food court with lots of choices and of course all in Japanese. He just kept saying what do you want? We wanted to know what they had and what are the various things we were seeing. He would just point at something and say chicken or pork. I saw one thing that looked good, and it was chicken of some kind and I asked if it came with rice and his answer was "do you need rice"? Greg got sushi and I set out to find my own lunch. I saw a rice dish that looked good, and it turned out to be Biryani (Indian dish) and they had some amazing garlic naan. (they spoke English, so it was easy) It was all cooked fresh and hot and everyone had already finished eating when I just got mine. The guide comes over and says we need to meet up front. I explained I just got my food and said we would be there asap. (we had 15 minutes before the meet time anyway) We were supposed to have time to shop here but he ran past everything. The tour was over, and we had an hour left in our tour time so we asked about the shopping arcade we were supposed to visit. So, he took us back there and gave us like 20 minutes. He was always running way ahead of us instead of guiding us. He raced back to the port and most of us were a block or more behind him. He passed us as he left, and we still had a long way to reach the ship. Kochi was a nice stop, but we would have enjoyed it more with a guide we could converse with and one who guided and not read from a sheet of paper.
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From $602 (Per Vehicle)
up to 7 guests
1 - Traveler
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).