Kyoto Private Tour with Certified Guide

Explore Kyoto’s hidden gems with a certified guide. Enjoy bamboo forests, tea houses, samurai tales, and more. Book your unforgettable adventure now.

Duration: 7 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights

Fushimi Inari-taisha Shrine - Fushimi Inari Taisha, located in Kyoto, Japan, is a renowned Shinto shrine known for its breathtaking beauty and deep cultural significance. Dedicated to Inari, the Shinto god of rice, prosperity, and business success, the shrine is famous for its striking vermilion torii gates. These gates, forming an enchanting…

What's Included
  • Customize your tour based on your expectations and available time
  • Guide
What's Not Included
  • Food and Drinks
  • Personal Expenses
  • Temple Tickets - 8 USD
  • Transportation fees -10 USD
  • Transportation fees of guide 5-8USD
Additional Information

Discover Kyoto with an Officially Certified Guide through our ‘Kyoto Enchantment Expedition’! Uncover the city’s hidden treasures as you explore secluded sanctuaries, stroll through enchanting bamboo forests, and enjoy tea in traditional tea houses. Our knowledgeable guides will illuminate the tales of samurai legends and geisha traditions. Traverse…

Location
Fushimi Inari-taisha Shrine
68 Fukakusa Yabunouchicho, Fushimi-ku,
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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330maxinew
Oct 11, 2024
Amazing!! Andrea was very knowledgeable with great communication and we did so much. We had a wonderful day with two other lovel - Andrea was an amazing tour host and had great communication. She showed us so much we would otherwise not have seen. Great day! Thank you Andrea. Highly recommend this tour.
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Leslee_c
Jan 17, 2025
Poorly Organised - This is a good way to see some sights in Kyoto and you can pick and choose what places you would like to go to. Our guide, Oscar was very good and I would highly recommend him. What was disappointing was that were given 1 guide to guide a large family group of 25 people. We all made separate bookings and while the company did know we were 'together', we expected to be broken into smaller groups and expected at a minimum 3 guides. This was very unfair on the guide and certainly not his fault. What it did mean was that it was a little more difficult to more from place to place and took more time which meant that we did not get to see all the places promised on the itinerary. After the tour finished, we contacted the company to ask for a refund. Varying refunds were given to us and some of us had to follow up several times. During this time the tour company was not always responsive to the messages sent and some of the messages returned were rude. We chose this tour based on the reviews and the fact that it appeared to be a good way to see the area given we were only in Kyoto for a few days. While we did enjoy the experience we were disappointed in the organising of the tour for our group. Oscar the guide went above and beyond and gave us some extra time (which we did not ask for) to get us to one more site for which were very grateful for and some suggestions for other places for us to visit.
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Phillip_f
May 18, 2025
No Show Tour - This was a no show. Find another tour guide. We got a cancellation notice at the pickup place and time.
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Denim001
Apr 16, 2025
The most disappointing non- tour ever - Our tour did not happen. Therefore the low rating. We booked this tour in February and the provider had up until the moment of our tour on April 15 to tell us that he had no guide. Instead, we were seeking him out repeatedly, sending emails asking for confirmation that he would have somebody to meet us at our hotel in Kyoto. Roberto finally called at the time the tour should’ve been starting and spoke to our Hotel clerk and said that the Tour had to be canceled. he didn’t have enough guides. Truly, this is the second time Viatour has let us down. last year in Athens the Tour Provider, for the Parthenon museum did not send our tickets until ours after the tour ended. So we had to pay for those tickets twice. If you don’t have enough tour guides, or the ability to get tickets to people on time, tell people right away. In Kyoto, it is peak tourist season, and we were unable to book anything else last minute. We figured out the metro system and ran around to three locations on our own. And we did receive an email that we will eventually receive a refund. But again, what a major disappointment. We took a train from Yokohama and paid for a hotel, $500 invested to get to Kyoto for a tour that never happened. Via Tour has to do better than this.
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Insiyah_s
Jan 6, 2025
No Show! - Very bad experience - we booked the tour for 5th Jan and no one showed up. I tried very hard to contact them and finally got details from Viator and we lost 1.5 hours in Kyoto just trying to contact them and also no tour available . Definitely a No
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From $110
up to 7 guests
2 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).