Top Kyoto Night Tours

This was an enjoyable and well organized tour. Our guide Yuki was very personable and fun, well travelled, and well informed in areas from food to rock music. She galvanized our small group into all kinds of fun conversation as we explored the small streets of old Kyoto and tasted some excellent delicacies and drinks at three quite diverse establishments. Highly recommended if you like food, culture and socializing.

We are very happy with our decision to visit this shrine at night and with a guide! There were far fewer people there than in the daytime. Our guide Masaki enthusiastically shared anecdotes about history and culture. He took us off the main gate pathway to see smaller shrines maintained by individual families. After the tour was over, he gave everyone recommendations on where to eat depending on where they were staying. It was a fun evening (just be prepared for steps!).

We LOVED this tour. Chikako, our guide was excellent - knowledgable, great company and so knowledgeable about Japanese food, sake and local restaurants - she was great. We visited several different restaurants / stalls over a 4 hours period and all the food was wonderful. We started at Uoriki at Retro Alley (for Japanese fish n Chips being Hamo Tempura or Pike Conger Eel), Konna Monja (for their soymilk donuts), Yonkura (a Kyoto modern sake-themed Izakaya), Anji Rokkaku (a Seafood & Traditional Dish Izakaya) and finally Futagoya (a Farm to Table style Izakaya). It was great to be able to try many different dishes as well as several sake's - you also get a drink included at each of the restaurant visits. The tour operates as a small group and there were 8 of us including Chikako which worked really well. We enjoyed a couple of the places (Konna Monja & Futagoya) so much we return over the following days We can't recommend this tour and Chikako highly enough - if you only do one tour whilst in Kyoto then do this one.

We had a very interesting evening. The experience started with a brief tour of the Gion district which was really helpful. The tour description said we’d have a tour but I wasn’t expecting it to be so informative and it provided good context for the highlight of the evening which was our dinner with a Maiko. Our guide was very friendly and engaging and was an excellent host and translator for us. We also enjoyed meeting the Maiko and found her to be inquisitive and charming. It was one of the most unique experiences we had on our trip having not really known much about geisha culture before. I recommend this tour as it’s hard to find anything quite like it.