3 Days in Kyoto: Suggested Itineraries

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3 Days in Kyoto: Suggested Itineraries Reviews

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Reply by Viator, May 2013
Doing what: Kyoto Full-Day Sightseeing Tour including Nijo Castle and Kiyomizu Temple

It's a good tour, allows you to see a lot of places in Kyoto in 1 day.

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Reply by Viator, May 2013
Doing what: Kyoto Morning Tour - Kyoto Imperial Palace, Golden Pavilion, Nijo Castle

Great overview of Kyoto. Group was little large, otherwise highly recommended. Very knowledgeable tour guide.

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Reply by Viator, April 2013
Doing what: Kyoto and Nara Day Trip from Kyoto including Nijo Castle

Kyoto and Nara are beautiful places, worth a visit. Nara , a peaceful park full of Deers and lovely gardens too. Lunch was also well served and delicious. We even had enough time to have a coffee and sweets. Well organised and excellent guide.

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Reply by Viator, April 2013
Doing what: Kyoto Cooking Class, Sake Tasting and Nishiki Food Market Walking Tour

You can learn a lot from a country from it's food and from this point of view, this tour is a window into Japanese culture that would be hard to look through in any other way. The first part ofthe tour in the Nishiki Food Market provided an eye openning expereince to the diversity of Japanese food, not only for the beginner, but for the more experienced foodie. There was plenty of time to check out all of the stalls, and the guide for this part of the tour was extremely knowledgeable and could talk about all of the types of foods in any detail that you would like. Absolutely incredible variety, with plenty of opportunities to taste great food, including extreme food tasting for the adventuresome!

The second part of the tour involved a visit to a saki brewery followed by an introduction to sake with tastings. I wasn't sure waht to expect but was pleasantly surprised. The cooking part of the tour was expertly done and I won't tell you what we cooked and ate as i don't want to spoil it for you, but just to say, that I learned so much and had a great time. There were some in the group who were not so experienced cooks, but there was no pressure and everyone really enjoyed it. A wonderful way to spend an afternoon with insights into Japan that would be otherwise hard to come by.

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Reply by Viator, April 2013
Doing what: Kyoto Morning Tour - Kyoto Imperial Palace, Golden Pavilion, Nijo Castle

Tour guides are almost as important as tour itineraries, and we were very lucky on this tour to have 'Casey' as guide. His commentary on the three wonderful sites we visited was not just informative but enlivened with a gentle humour and the addition of fascinating snippets of historical and contemporary detail.
The organisation of the tour was efficient, and overall it provided an excellent introduction to Kyoto and its treasures and pleasures.

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Reply by Viator, April 2013
Doing what: Kyoto Full-Day Sightseeing Tour including Nijo Castle and Kiyomizu Temple

Kyoto has a lot of very interesting and beautiful places to see. This full day tour may not cover all of them but it includes most of the must-see places. Lunch is included which is just ok. Our tour guide for the afternoon tour, Yuki, was very knowledgeable and fluent in English. My only complaint is that we were all in a rush especially the morning tour, and it seemed that we didn't have enough time to take in the beauty of the places we've been to. One family who was part of our tour group was left behind in the Golden Pavilion and had to take the taxi to rejoin the group in the Imperial Palace. The pacing of the afternoon tour was better, we even had time to buy some souvenirs in the shops near the Kyomizu Temple.

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Reply by Viator, April 2013
Doing what: Kyoto and Nara Day Trip from Kyoto including Nijo Castle

This was a basic tour of three sites in Kyoto and two in Nara, but it gave us a quick overview of the major attractions in those cities. We then continued to explore on our own.

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Reply by Viator, April 2013
Doing what: Kyoto Morning Tour - Kyoto Imperial Palace, Golden Pavilion, Nijo Castle

Saw the major sites on 1/2 a day which was great but as can be expected felt very rushed. For those who takes this tour be aware - this tour concludes at 12:00 at the lunch restaurant for the full day tour. They do shuttle the half day participants back to the Kyoto station but you only arrive back at the station after 13:00. We had another tour scheduled to depart at 14:00 so our planned relaxed lunch turned into a rushed lunch at a fast food vendor.

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Reply by Viator, April 2013
Doing what: Kyoto Full-Day Sightseeing Tour including Nijo Castle and Kiyomizu Temple

If you want a quick view of the major sites in Kyoto, this tour is great. However, it is a bit rush.

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Reply by Viator, April 2013
Doing what: Arashiyama and Sagano Morning Walking Tour

The tour guide was ppersonable and was very happy to provide an insight into the cultural,spiritual and social aspects of this district. She spoke fluent aenhlish. The gardens were spectacularvand you had the freedom to stay longer and were given train ticket home.

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Reply by Viator, April 2013
Doing what: Kyoto Full-Day Sightseeing Tour including Nijo Castle and Kiyomizu Temple

Enjoyed the tour. The Imperial Palace was a bit of a bust as we were not allowed into any buildings. I'd leave it off and extend the time at other sites that were very interesting. This way the guides would not be so rushed and would be able to wait for all members of the group before beginning to speak.
Would have liked assigned seats on the bus.
Guide spoke very good English

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Reply by Viator, April 2013
Doing what: Kyoto and Nara Day Trip from Kyoto including Nijo Castle

This tour is the most convenient way to see the major sights of Kyoto.

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Reply by Viator, April 2013
Doing what: Kyoto and Nara Day Trip from Kyoto including Nijo Castle

Nara was worthwhile but found Kyoto lacking in variety.

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Reply by Viator, April 2013
Doing what: Kyoto and Nara Day Trip from Kyoto including Nijo Castle

Good tour, afternoon Nara portion had guide that was hard to understand unfortunately. Some mix up near the end of moving people from bus to bus depending on what hotel they finish at -- confused people. Good lunch choice however thought should be given to having either separate lunch for full day people as they only had less than 45 minutes, to line up, eat, bathroom break and run for bus.

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Reply by Viator, April 2013
Doing what: Kyoto Cooking Class, Sake Tasting and Nishiki Food Market Walking Tour

The tour is not value for money and is pretty much a first timers tour in Japan. The Japanese staff involved were very good however the content is very basic and on our tour, one of the key elements of the tour was unavailable with no addition or replacement.

The item missing on our tour was the sake tasting. The venue was closed on the day of our tour so we just had a quick look and kept moving. Sake tasting tour is one of the three main elements in the tour name so we were disappointed that it was possible, even though we chose from dates available on the website, not dates we requested.

The cost was 150 per person as well which is expensive considering its a walking tour with little overheads.

Of course we made the most of it and we still had a good time but as a professional tour, it dropped short.

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