In this tour, you will visit the most impressive places in Yokohama including Sky Garden of Landmark tower, Sankei-En Japanese Garden where you can experience the tea ceremony, and having a delicious lunch at my favorite restaurant. You can choose one place from the options in the itinerary during 15:00 to 16:00.
I was born and grew up in Yokohama and I am sure this tour will become a good memory of your travel in Japan.
At your hotel
I will pick you up near the reception.
Sky Garden of Landmark Tower; Observatory at 273m with great view of Yokohama area (Entrance fee 1,000/800/500/200 JPY/person for over 19/18-16/15-7/6-4years old) This building was built in 1993. It has the fastest elevator (750m/min) in Japan.
Sankei-En; A Japanese Garden which used to be a residence of Sankei Hara, who loved Japanese traditional building (Entrance fee 700/200 JPY/person for over 16/under 15 years old). There are many old tea houses in its Japanese garden. You can experience a tea ceremony with 500 JPY if you want.
Lunch with 1,000-2,000 JPY/person (We can have lunch near Sankei-En or at China Town.)
You can choose one of the following options A to F.
China Town; The biggest China Town in Japan. There are so many restaurants and beautiful Chinese Shrines (Shopping & walking).
Yokohama Bay Cruise; Cruising about an hour to view the city and the port from the sea (Ticket 2,400JPY/person)
Cup noodle Museum; You can make your own cup noodle (Entrance fee: 500 JPY/adult, Make your own cup noodle fee: 300 JPY)
Yamashita Park; We will walk along the park by the sea with flower gardens.
Silk Museum; We will visit the Silk Museum, where you can see many unique displays of the production process of silk wears from cocoons of silkworm.
Red Brick Wearhouse; You can enjoy shopping at the many unique shops in the renovated warehouse.
We will take a taxi to the top of the hill and visit preserved old foreign residences there such as Erismann's Residence, Berrick Hall, and Home of a Diplomat.
End of the tour
At your hotel
In this tour, you will visit the most impressive places including Sky Garden of Landmark tower, Sankei-En Japanese Garden where you can experience the tea ceremony, and having a delicious lunch at my favorite restaurant.
I was born, grew up and live in Yokohama now and I am sure this tour will become the best memories of Yokohama in your trip to Japan.
I visited many other places in Yokohama as a citizen.
You can modify the places depending on your interest and the weather condition to make the best use of your time.
Guide fee, Pick up
Transportation cost of the guide within Yokohama
Transportation cost of you (Depending on the location of picking up, but about 1,000 JPY within Yokohama)
Transportation cost of the guide outside of Yokohama
Lunch cost of you and the guide
Any other costs of you and the guide described in each place in highlights
There is little restriction due to COVID 19 in Japan since 2023. I was vaccinated six times with the Pfizer one.
Not available on Mondays.
- The tour guide is not available on Monday.
- Please, send a direct message to the tour guide for confirming the availability before booking
transportation fee:2,000JPY/person
cruise fee:1,600 JPY/person including the guide
lunch: 1,000-2,000JPY including the guide
Sky deck entrance fee:1,000JPY/person excluding the guide
Sankei-En Garden 700 JPY Tea ceremony 500 JPY
Hakkeijima entrance fee:3,000JPY/person includin the guide for the aquarium only or 5,200JPY for amusement passport
We met Yuki at our hotel at 9:00. The weather was overcast. Yuki leant us his passes to travel to Kegon waterfall and Lake Chuzen . By the time we arrived it was impossible to see the falls or lake, we returned to Nikko. While a guide cannot determine the weather an experienced guide would have checked ahead, avoided wasting 2 hours on a bus and suggested an alternative itinerary…..that’s what a guide with local knowledge would have done. We suggested a stop at Nikko Botanical Gardens. Yuki had not visited them …surprising again lack of local knowledge. After lunch we toured the various temples and shrines. Yuki did not tell us anything that was not on the notice boards walking ahead with no attempt to add to our knowledge. We finished about4 returning to our hotel where Yuki was helpful ….we wanted to send some luggage ahead and he compiled the necessary forms In summary very expensive…40,000yen to GowithGuide and another 20,000 to Yuki for “travel and accommodation “ a total of 60,000yen Yuki added little to what we could have done by ourselves. Yuki is not a knowledgeable guide for Nikko and should not be marketed as such We look forward to your response.
Dear Ian Sorry for your disappointment. I usually take my guests from Tokyo fort one day tour. You should have known that from my offer. It was very unfortunate that it was so foggy to see anything near the lake on the upper part of Nikko mountains. I planned to take you to the waterfall and lake cruise but neither seemed to work well. So I followed your request to visit the Garden. Then, I took you to Tosho-gu shrine and Rinno-ji temple after Futabasan Shrine which I added as your wife asked me. Please enjoy your trip to Japan and give my best regards to your wife. Thank you for taking my tour. Yuki
This was supposed to be an eye opening experience on the Shinkansen to Hakone. Not long after we transferred to the mountain train, all power shut down so we were stuck on the train for 2 hours before the authorities allowed all passengers to exit thru the train’s emergency exit in the first car, one by one down a narrow ladder. Of course we sat in the 1st train and were the last ones to exit. We never made it to Lake Ashi or the ropeway, but had a decent lunch before heading back to Tokyo. It was a much shorter trip than originally planned, and quite expensive. Our guide Yuki was attentive and tried his best to find alternative transportation. I only wished he had offered a partial refund.
Dear Nina Thank you for writing a review of my tour. It was so unfortunate not only the weather but also the loss of power of the train. I had been advising you not to visiting Hakone on the day based on the weather forecast. But you insisted Hakone so I took you there. Sorry not to think of refunding you. Best regards Yuki
Yuki is a fantastic guide and provided a great introduction to Tokyo including deep knowledge of the sights we visited, helping us learn the public transportation system, and having a great lunch at a favorite spot of his. Very clear communicator prior to and during our tour. Really enjoyed our day in Tokyo with Yuki.
Dear Eric Thank you for your nice review of my tour. We visited Shibuya Sky, Meiji Shrine, and Imperial Palace East Gardens. I was worried about the weather but it was perfect for Skibuya SKy and thank you for providing my admission fee. Please give my best regards to Jenifer. Yuki
Yuki was great. He was knowledgeable and had great ideas for places to visit. He kept in touch with us regarding the typhoon that was going through Japan and how it affected our scheduled tours. I would definitely recommend him to anyone visiting tokyo.
Dear Martin Thank you for your review. It was a very quiet authentic tour of Tokyo. We visited Nezu shrine, Koraku-en Garden, and Zojyo-ji Temple. Thank you very much for taking my tour. Yuki