Arashiyama used to be a resort of aristocracies having a 1200 years history and birth place of Japanese anthology of one hundred poets.
We will walk around quiet area of Sagano in Arashiyama for 6 hours.
We will visit Tenryuu temple(World Heritage), Bamboo trail around Arashiyama and Adashino-Nenbutu-ji , Otagi-Nenbutu-ji aroud deep Sagano area which have unique 8000 statues and another bamboo forest.
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This temple was built after the fights between Emperor Godaigo and Shogun Takauji Ashikaga. When the Emperor died, the Shogun Takauji felt sad because he respected the Emperor. He build this temple to pray for the Emperor. This temple's Zen garden was designed by the monk who advised the shogun to build this temple.
This area was for funeral site where the dead body is exposed to the wind until it is eroded completely. About 100 years ago, a monk felt sad about abundant grave stones. Then he dug out and rowed them. The number of stone statues is about 8000.
This temple has another bamboo forest.
This temple has 1200 rakan, stone statues representing the disciples of Buddha. They were carved and donated by usual people who helped to restored the temple.
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You can enjoy quiet Sagano walking. It is a remote area from busy Arashiyama. It is like quiet Kyoto of 30 years ago.
You will visit quiet temples which have unique stone statues and You can fell cool sensation in Bamboo trail where aristochracies of 1200 years ago might walk.
-Guide's transportation fee between guide house and your hotel in Kyoto
-Hotel pick-up fee in Kyoto city
-Guide fee
-Public transportation fee during this tour
-Admission fee
Tenryuu-ji temple 800yen
Otagi-Nenbutu-ji 300yen
Adashino-Nenbutu-ji 500yen
-Lunch.
-If your hotel is out of Kyoto city, you need public transportation fee to Kyoto from outside of Kyoto. Please ask the guide.
I can guide you from Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe, and Nara if you pay the pick up fee.
Please ask the fee.
You need admission fee in Tenryuu-temple(500yen) and Otagi-Nenbutu-ji(300yen) and Adashino-Nenbutu-ji(500yen).
If you want to go optional tram tour(about 1 hour) along Hozu river to Kameyama, you need ticket fee about 880yen for each and 1 hour additionally. Please ask the guide.
We had an amazing day in Kyoto thanks to Yoshi who took us to some of the main attractions and sites around the city. As a first time visitor to Japan, I can’t even imagine trying to find our way around the city by ourselves but Yoshi was a very knowledgeable guide and expertly led us and answered all of our questions and more. Thank you Yoshi for making our first day in Kyoto one to always remember!
We departed Osaka in the morning of this tour, and Yoshi kindly adapted the tour’s schedule to include him guiding us to the correct station for travelling to Kyoto. This was our third consecutive day spent with Yoshi as our guide, and he was just as friendly, helpful and knowledgeable. It was a particularly hot day, so he allowed us plenty of breaks in the shade with cold drinks. We saw the golden pavilion, bamboo forest, thousand-shrine gate and Gion geisha district. All were really enjoyable despite the oppressive heat, and adapted our tour to finish a little early at our request because of our long hot day. He also went out of his way to arrange a delicious vegetarian monk set lunch at the temple in the bamboo forest area, which was in a Michelin-star tatami-mat floor room. Our time with Yoshi was overall superb. He is a wonderful guide for first-time visitors who my family and I couldn’t recommend more.
Dear Tom Actually, I was super-suprised for not only the value of the tip but also the paper wrapping the tip up. It was very famous temple's paper. The temple is famous for the origin of "Manga" comics in Japan. There were famous pictures on the paper! Anyway, thank you for your evaluation and tip. And I hope you will have good trip and return home safely. Yours sincerely, Yoshi
Yoshi guided us to the sights of Nara including shrines, a giant bronze buddha and Nara park. He always put our preferences and wishes first, especially with the hot September sun. He is kind and considerate, and overall great company to travel with. He is really helpful on public transport by clearly informing us where our stops are and where to go, always checking back to make sure we are all accounted for and well.
Dear Tom Thank you for your evaluation and your tip Y(^^)Y. The tour day was very hot but there were few tourists. So we were easy to visit those destinations.(Every cloud has silver lining?) I am very happy to hear you are satisfied with the tour. Yours sincerely, Yoshi
Yoshi was very friendly and guided us around to explore Osaka including Dotonbori and street markets. He helped us acquire an Osaka underground ICOCA card to use for all kinds of public transport. Such a friendly and keen guide who kept an eye out for us every step of the way whilst teaching us about each area!
Dear Tom Thank you for your evaluation and your tip Y(^^)Y. Stations in Osaka are busy and very complicated. So I was keen not to make customers loose the way. By the way, you can use ICOCA card in some vending machines, for instance to buy coke. Please check the machine having "ICOCA" mark.I guess you can use all value of ICOCA before leaving Japan by drinking a lot of coke (^^). Yours sincerely, Yoshi