Kyoto Arashiyama Best Spots 4h Private Tour with Licensed Guide

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Duration:4 hours (approx.)
Location: Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture

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Explore the cultural highlights and beautiful landscapes in two historically important districts in Kyoto on a walking tour of Arashiyama and Sagano. This 4-hour tour allows you to choose a few locations of your choice within the Arashiyama and Sagano areas. How about crossing the Togetsukyo bridge to enjoy the river view and visit a magnificent temple like Tenryu-ji or a serene temple like Jojakko-ji Temple, and stroll through a beautiful bamboo forest?

Arashiyama/Sagano is a picturesque place where aristocrats have had their villas since ancient times. Whether you are a history and culture lovers who wants to visit temples, a nature lover or a shopper, there is always something for everyone in these areas.

Please choose 2-3 places that you wish to visit.

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Meet with your guide at 9:00/13:00 at JR Arashiyama Station (in front of a ticket gate). Please choose a few must-see sights from the list below On average, you can visit 2 spots during this tour.
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Built over the Katsura River, this 155 meter long bridge is one of the iconic images of Arashiyama. It's a great spot to take in the surrounding scenery and Arashiyama mountains as the backdrop.
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This temple has a long history and is one of the most famous zen temples in all of Kyoto. Known as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it has a stunning garden where the plants and flowers make for a different feel every season.
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Denjiro Okochi, a famous actor of Samurai film, spent about 30 years building this vast villa garden, which covers an area of 19800 square meters. The garden is surrounded by cherry blossoms in spring and autumn leaves in autumn, and offers beauty in every season. The view of the Hozu River flowing below and the city of Kyoto is also a highlight.
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Located on the hillside of Mt Ogura, which has been famous for its autumn foliage since the late Heian period (794-1185), Jōjakkoji Temple has about 200 old maple trees, which turn red, orange and yellow and combine with the green of the moss.
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A quiet temple surrounded by beautiful landscapes that have survived the passage of 1200 years. The temple is famous for its autumn foliage. The temple is called 'Nison-in' because it enshrines the two principal Buddha images. The two principal images have faces and figures like twins, with their left and right hands raised and lowered symmetrically. The temple is located a short distance from central Arashiyama, so you can enjoy a moment of tranquillity.
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This temple is known as a ""temple of the tragic love"". It was the temple where a lady dancer who was favoured by the powers of the time lost his favour and spent time as a nun after a broken heart.The grounds of the temple are covered with beautiful green bamboo and green maples, with a moss-covered garden. The window in the antechamber of the hermitage is also worth seeing. It reflects a variety of colours depending on the way light enters the room.
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The only shrine in Japan dedicated to the founder of the hairdressing and beauty industry (cosmetics, hair washes, hair growth products, wigs, etc.), it remains a shrine of deep devotion to the hairdressing trade, and there is a hair mound in the grounds where hair is donated.
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This area has been a place of burial since ancient times, first with wind burial, but later with earth burial, where people dedicated a stone Buddha and mourned for the eternal separation of the dead. The approximately 8,000 stone Buddhas and stupas enshrined in the grounds are the graves of people buried in the area.
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The origin of this temple can be traced back to 8th century but the temple became uninhabited during the WWII and was abandoned after a typhoon in 1950 caused extensive damage to the temple grounds, halls and Buddhist statues, but was rebuilt in 1955 when Buddhist sculptor Nishimura Kimitomo (1915-2003) was appointed abbot, and the reconstruction of the most run-down temple in Kyoto began. The temple is known as a ""temple of healing"", where visitors can relax and feel at ease with the expressive line-up of 1,200 statues of arhats carved by ordinary worshippers.
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Toriimoto is a conservation area located at the far end of Sagano which is about 600 metres along Atago Highway leading to Atago Shrine.The area has a mix of farmhouse-style buildings with thatched roofs and machiya-style buildings with two floors and tiled roofs, and has a well-preserved character of a Japanese rural historical landscape.
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If you are animal lovers, why not visiting here? Around 120 Japanese macaques currently live in the wild in this monkey park. The park is full of nature and the monkeys can be seen throughout the year.
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This is one of the biggest attarctions in all of Kyoto, with thousands of tall bamboo towering in the area making for a beautiful forest. It's an amazing spot that makes you feel like you're in a fairy tale.

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Posted By : Haley_G
The tour with Osamu was great! He was very knowledgeable and very kind and went above and beyond to make sure I was seeing the best and seeing everywhere I wanted to go. Highly recommend. Thank you, Osamu!

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Posted On : 2024-05-14 04:49:26

Posted By : T6709QRjackiel
My guide Saki was fabulous. I had a wonderful time. The bamboo Forrest was lovely as well as lots of other special areas / photo ops. Lunch in a little restaurant ( away from the main drag) was great. I even tried other local delicacies. Very informative guide and we had some laughs.
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Posted On : 2024-04-11 06:20:09

Posted By : Safari14221385991
Our morning began with a visit to the food section of the Department Store and interesting explanations from our guide.
We then went to Nishiki Market where we tasted several Kyoto specialties in different places.
This visit is an interesting discovery of Japanese culinary specialties. It allowed us to get interesting information from the guide. We were a small group of 3 people which was very pleasant.
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Posted On : 2024-03-11 23:50:34

Posted By : Donna_H
The Kyoto Arashiyama & Sagano Walking Food Tour is an enriching exploration of two historically significant districts led by the exceptional guide, Nao. This five-star experience takes you on a journey through Kyoto's past, with visits to iconic landmarks like the Togetsukyo bridge, Tenryu-ji temple and the bamboo forest, where Nao's insightful commentary brings history to life.
After touring the beautiful sites we indulged in local delights, fish cakes, Negiyaki savory pancake and Japanese sweets, offering a taste of Kyoto's culinary heritage. Nao's knowledge, enthusiasm, and personalized approach make this tour an unforgettable way to immerse oneself in Kyoto's history and cuisine.
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Posted On : 2023-11-25 21:45:04

Posted By : Katharina E
It was absolutely beautiful. Ellie, Our Guido, was very knowledgeable and super nice.
The bamboo forest walk and the temple are very interesting.
The food was yummy.

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Posted On : 2023-10-13 04:44:56

Posted By : mike m
Eriko was very friendly and knowledgeable and very considerate of a group member who had a sore leg Her English is very good We all really enjoyed this beautiful area and good food especially the negimaki Highly recommended
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Posted On : 2023-09-07 23:55:12

Posted By : Will_W
Our tour guide, Fuji, was amazing! Our group had lots of questions and ended up extending the tour well beyond the normal amount of time, but she was very patient and made sure we got the full experience.
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Posted On : 2023-04-18 23:49:32

Posted By : Jane_P
Fuji was a wonderful guide, interesting information and very relaxed pace. There was only 4 of us on the tour and we all enjoyed each other’s company.
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Posted On : 2023-04-10 16:40:34

Posted By : Sightsee532084
Fuji was the most wonderful guide. She gave us so much great information and was warm and friendly. You could not wish for a better person to spend your day with.
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Posted On : 2023-04-07 08:53:38

Posted By : Stephen_L
This tour was great. There were only 4 of us. Our tour guide, Fuji San, is the best. She is very patient, very knowledgeable and kind. She went out of her way to make sure we enjoyed ourselves. We had so much fun with our 2 other fellow tour mates. We would definitely recommend this tour
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Posted On : 2023-04-01 00:21:48