Kyoto Highlights and Hidden Gems Private Tour

Get ready to experience Kyoto the local way. Enjoy the city to the max and hear more about the origin,history, and culture of Kyoto. Go back in time to the feudal era as you wander around the Higashiyama Area and learn how samurais used to rule Japan. See and touch Kyoto's history at the Yasaka Pagoda,built almost 1500 years ago,and tour the Kongoji Temple to discover a folk faith linked to monkeys.

Follow your local host through Kyoto's districts and neighbourhoods. Explore the Kiyomizu Temple,a world heritage site,and its landmarks of wooden terraces and waterfalls offering streams which visitors can drink from. Stroll through the vibrant Gion District where geishas entertain clients in traditional teahouses and step into Nishiki Market to taste local delicacies and shop for quirky souvenirs.

Feeling thirsty? Why not some treats! Learn the art of Matcha making and savour the jade green tea.
The local hosts are natural storytellers and they cannot wait to show you all around Kyoto.

Itinerary
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Stop At: Higashiyama Zoo & Botanical Garden, 3-70 Higashiyama Motomachi, Chikusa, Nagoya 464-0804 Aichi Prefecture

Pass by the Zoo and get to see this neighborhood, which preserves the look and feel of feudal-era Japan in a wood-built historic quarter of narrow lanes lined with traditional pottery stores, tea houses, and restaurants for multi-course kaiseki meals.


Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Yasaka Shrine, 625 Giommachi Kitagawa, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto 605-0073 Kyoto Prefecture

Hokanji temple was built in the Asuka period (538 - 710)

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Kongoji Temple, 390 Kinencho, Higashiyama, Kyoto 605-0828 Kyoto Prefecture

Learn more about the folk faith, which says that to have a wish granted, you must sacrifice one desire.

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Kiyomizu-dera Temple, 1-294 Kiyomizu, Higashiyama, Kyoto 605-0862 Kyoto Prefecture

Over 1200 years have passed since the foundation of Kiyomizu-dera Temple. Halfway up Mt. Otowa, one of the peaks in Kyoto’s Higashiyama mountain range stands the temple

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Yasaka Shrine, 625 Giommachi Kitagawa, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto 605-0073 Kyoto Prefecture

Before getting to see another shrine, you will have a coffee. This is one of the most famous shrines in Kyoto. Founded over 1350 years ago

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Gionmachi, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto 605-0001 Kyoto Prefecture

Gion is Kyoto's most famous geisha district

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Kamogawa River, Kyoto Kyoto Prefecture

Another unmissable place in Kyoto is Kamo-gawa river. This is probably the most famous and arguably the most popular river in Kyoto.

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Nishiki Market Shopping District, 609 Nishidaimonjicho Tominokoji Dori Shijoagaru, Nakagyo, Kyoto 604-8054 Kyoto Prefecture

Explore a 400-year-old market, sample local Japanese goodies and shop for souvenirs


Duration: 20 minutes