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Kyoto One-day Taxi Tour by an Ivy Leaguer Guide & Photographer

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Overview

Your guide, Ai, is a Japanese government-certified English tour guide interpreter since 2015; an award-winning, magazine-covered photographer; and holds graduate degrees: MA in Japanese Pedagogy from Columbia U in 2025 and MBA in tourism and hospitality management from Kyoto U in 2020.　After graduating from Columbia, she teaches Japanese language at one of the liberal arts colleges in US mainland.

Ai: This is a private, customizable tour by taxi that will visit UNESCO World Heritage sights-KinkakuJi Temple (Golden Pavilion) and Kiyomizu Temple, and Fushimi Inari Shrine (with thousands vermillion Torii gates).　

For lunch and/or dinner, I will arrange the best Tempura or Kobe Beef restaurant in Gion.　

Since all transportations and entrance fees are included in the tour price, the only additional cost on the tour day would be your meals.
Pick up and drop off at Kobe/Osaka Cruise Port, Kyoto Sta, and any hotels in Kyoto/Osaka/Kobe/Nara City are available.

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What's Included

✓ Included

Entrance fee to Golden Pavilion & Kiyomizu-dera Temple 8, 000 JPY/group
private taxi 91,000 JPY, incl pick up/drop off
Free unlimited photography by a professional photographer
Parking Fees

✗ Not Included

Lunch
Dinner

Itinerary

Stop 1

First, we will visit Golden Pavilion -a UNESCO World Heritage site. It is not only a temple but also a resort for the Shogun in the 14th century.

Stop 2

Bamboo forest and scenic Togetsu Bridge will be colored in each season's flavor-cherry blossoms in spring, fresh green in summer, autumn foliage in fall, and occasionally snowflakes in winter

Stop 3

Lunch

Stop 4

One of the most popular tourist destinations in Kyoto. We can enjoy walking through thousands of vermillion Torii gates.

Stop 5

Another UNESCO World Heritage site that we cover during the tour. The East Hills Side is close to the famous Gion, Maiko and Geisha district, therefore we can stroll around typical Kyotoite streets in the evening.