This was really an excellent tour. We saw a lot and it was extremely well organized:_br/_ Pros: 1. You are picked up from your hotel we were at the Keio Plaza and brought to the Tokyo train station by the tour guide who places you on the train with your group. Seats are assigned so no rushing to get a good seat. _br/_ 2. As soon as you exit the train you are told to just stay put. There was someone already there to pick us up, bring us to lunch and then direct us to the tour bus. Lunch was excellent. Then the afternoon tour begins. There is no possibility of getting lost._br/_ 3. The first tour is to Nara. The large Buddha is amazing. You can actually go inside of it. A trip to Kasuga Taisha Shrine and seeing and feeding the free roaming sacred deer is amazing. _br/_ 4. We stayed at the Kyoto Hotel Okura which provided excellent breakfast buffet and excellent room and service._br/_ 5.The 2nd day was also well organized. The castle, Gold Pavilion and Imperial Palace were amazing._br/_ 6. Having the 3rd day on our own was a bonus. We took cabs to the Monkey Park, the Gian District and the thousands of traditional gates that make up the Fushimi Inari Shrine on the outskirts of Kyoto, Japan. Cabs are not as expensive in Kyoto. We had plenty of time to get back to the hotel and be escorted to the train and then to our hotel in Tokyo. _br/_ 7. This tour was well worth the price considering that bullet train and hotel and all entrance fees as well as lunch are included._br/_ Cons: 1. If you stay at the Okura hotel breakfast will be extra. The breakfast buffet though is delicious._br/_ 2. Wear your broken in comfortable shoes because you will be doing a lot of walking._br/_ Overall an excellent tour and I would highly recommend it.
Review by: Enrique R, March 2018
Amazing tour, great accommodation, the tour guides were very friendly and helpful. _br/_ The tour is really complete, the main stops are awesome. I strongly recommend it.
Review by: ss, February 2018
The 2-Day tour to Kyoto and Nara was amazing. Very well organized. I highly recommend to take this tour!
Review by: Hal P, December 2017
What was impressive about the tour was how well it was organized. Every event was on time with well spoken informative guides who were friendly, polite and personable. While popular shrines and temples were visited that would be in travel guides, the tour provided the ability to see sights in a short period of time that you would probably be able to do on your own. If it is your first visit to Japan, personalized guidance to the Bullet Train departure platforms as well as local trains if you are staying outside of Tokyo is provided at all destinations. Any of the hotels offered standard, traditional Japanese or luxury is perfectly acceptable. This tour is highly recommended,
Review by: Denise C, November 2017
Very well organized tour. Guides were very good.
Review by: MATTEO V, October 2017
What an amazing Tour...Saw beautiful places and experienced the bullet Train....Recommend it to all
Review by: Peter K, October 2017
We had a really good time. A very well organised and planned 2 days - all went like clockwork. Trains buses etc all worked very well. The stay in the New Miyako Hotel was perfectly good and very convenient - positioned right by the station with its many food and drink facilities - really useful for the evening after the day 1 tour. First day we had no issues at all - a good lunch in previously mentioned hotel, and a good tour to Nara with good guides. Second day consisted of two good separate tours to various parts of Kyoto - one morning and one afternoon tour. However, between these two tours we felt we were 'abandoned' with over two hours to fill at a small craft centre which was near to nothing else in town, and which was pretty limited in entertainment value. The included lunch both Western and Japanese food at the craft centre was of very poor quality, totally cold, and in somewhat downmarket surroundings and definitely not befitting what was a fairly expensive tour. It did take the shine off an otherwise great experience and much enjoyed couple of days.
Review by: david n, September 2017
Well organised, guides good but difficult to understand, interesting sights, accomodation good._br/_ Maybe a little rushed.
Review by: Nancy B, August 2017
This trip was fabulous from beginning to end. The tour company took care of every detail including putting us on the Bullet Train in Tokyo, meeting us on the platform in Kyoto and reversing this process to get us back again. This attention to all the details allowed us to enjoy the beauty of the countryside and the splendors of Kyoto because they took very good care of us. We would take this tour again. Loved it.
Review by: mer3448, July 2017
This tour was amazing!
Review by: manuel gerardo l, June 2017
excelent
Review by: Elise R, April 2017
The local tour operator for Viator on this tour was wonderful in moving the people smoothly from Tokyo to Kyoto and back via the bullet train. They are very organized for logistics every day of the tour. But while actually touring in Kyoto and Nara, you are combined in a big tour bus of about 40 people to view the sights, With one guide who often speaks to only the closest 5 - 10 people, it is not the most intimate experience. If you don't like large groups, from all ethnic backgrounds which is interesting, but often include tourists who need to be taking selfies constantly, this may not be the tour for you. But if you want a really organized tour that gets you from Tokyo to Kyoto and Nara and back and to many of the most important sights including the bullet train experience, this tour does all the work for putting this together for you. We stayed at the New Miyako hotel, which has nice sized rooms for Japan, is extremely conveniently located by Kyoto Station and had a very helpful staff.
Review by: Rajan B, January 2017
Very nice arrangements
Review by: Rajan B, January 2017
Excellent
Review by: atirado, January 2017
Great way to get to know the city and buy Japanese ceramics...
Review by: anne, November 2016
Very well organized. My accommodations were great. The guide was very good with a great sense of humor. I would recommend this as a good way of seeing Kyoto and the neighboring area.
Review by: Baxy, October 2016
Brilliant trip, all very well arranged. Kyoto and Nara are very crowded tourist destinations so good to have planned visits. Some guides were better than others! Transfers all worked well. All things Japanese are very punctual and efficient.
Review by: HENRY C, September 2016
My wife and I really enjoy our two days visit to Kyoto and Nara, the staff and tour guides are very knowledgeable, and we have learned a great deal about their culture, expecailly the Japanese hotel we stay in, what an experience.
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