Kyoto Top Four Highlights Day Trip from Osaka or Kyoto

Jack was amazing and this tour hit all the best spots to visit in Kyoto in 1 day! We highly recommend this tour.

Well-coordinated tour, perfect for first-timers. Great choices of four locations, and we had sufficient time for each. Guide Lee provided overview forceach location in the bus beforehand. He took pictures for us and the props were a nice toich. The us allowd us to take a catnap which was quite helpful. Lee was funny, made many great jokes.

Lee was a great tour guide, very knowledgeable, organized, and helpful. I enjoyed his jokes and upbeat spirit.

The experience was very poor we had the tour guide Chris was very upsetting. First this is supposed to be an English tour his English skills were very poor we hardly understood him. Second he never waits for his group he’s racing down the street and we are running after him trying to get to the place he left us alone and we were on our own. The tour guide is supposed to give history of the place we had to do everything on our own. If we had rented a taxi and went by ourselves it would have been better than going with this tour guide. Even my kids were comparing him to another tour guide we had earlier and said he was terrible. Do not recommend Chris!

An interesting trip to visit 4 main attractions in Kyoto. Good for first time travellers like us who wants to visit as many attractions as possible. The tour guide Jackson is friendly, patient and provides clear instructions. We had enjoy the trip. Thank you Jackson.

Frederick dai was a great guide. Ever smiling and always friendly and helpful. 8 h spent with him were like 8 min. He was very knowledgeable about the sights and passed some really good info to us.

The tour was good and covered the places mentioned in the tour with sufficient time to experience the space & shop a little, have lunch & be selective about what we want to see on priority at Arashimaya. Very crowded though owing to the Sakura season. The guide Jack, was good with imparting information and explaining the routes to take, where to eat etc

This was a wonderful tour that was comprehensive and convenient. Saki, our tour guide was personable, attentive and thorough in sharing her knowledge of the places we went to. The tour was well run and organized and highly recommended!

This was a rare disappointment of the viator tours we have booked in the past, and we have booked many dozens across many countries. A few things in particular: 1. Bus and tour guide were late at the meeting point. Though likely delayed by the weather since we were picked up in Kyoto and their first pick up was it Osaka. This, however, is one of the issues with their time management, they don't allow for any unforeseen timing issues. 2. Time at each stop was purely calculated versus actual time it will take to complete whats promised. Each stop there were people late but not at the fault of their own, they were simply given too little time. Latecomers to the bus were shamed publicly. One family was late by 9 minutes and we were literally asked whether we should leave or wait for them even though they had elderly. If you will take two restroom breaks instead of one you'll be late, if you have too smoke breaks you'll be late, if your kids spend too much time at the souvenir shop you'll be late... Those types of scenarios... For example, at the bamboo forest and shrine stop, we were given 2 hours and 25 minutes to see three things and have lunch. According to Google maps just to walk to and from stop and bamboo garden is 15 minutes each way, if you add another shrine, posted (route poll) time to it is 9 minutes giving you another 18, plus you'd have to have lunch where just the waittime for most restaurants is half an hour, for most families add another half an hour for food consumption. There are plenty of souvenir shops for most would probably spend another 5 minutes at let's say four shops giving you another 20 minutes. Add a couple of restroom breaks, a smoke break or a random quick drink experience.... And you're late. Our family is fairly young and we're in good shape so making pace is not an issue but we have seen some folks with moderate mobility problems take much more time given there's a bit of an elevation and some portions of the tour. 2. Tour guide... A few things here... Fiona, she was not observing the movement of the whole group of 48 people, therefore at times it was difficult to track where she was and when she started to speak. At another point there was a railroad crossing, which she told us about - we need to make sure we're mindful when the trains are coming because it will take a few minutes to wait for the train, then we literally observed her run ahead and cross at the very last moment even though most of her group was behind the train tracks leading to an absurd event where we were all waiting that crossed just to meet her, along waiting for us. Additionally, to us it was difficult to understand her because she was wearing a face mask. Though I understand her personal choice with regards to personal protections like her face mask, it seems that this is where her personal choice is in conflict with her occupational duty to be clear-voiced and easy to understand, being a tour guide. So all in all this tour to us was more like an Uber with a pretty old bus that to us seen somed subpar - no bathroom, poor air conditioning with all foggy windows. It got us to the places that we wanted to see but didn't provide much more than that. For our last leg we just took a taxi instead of returning via bus, it was just more pleasant. Financial component is not important to us, this is much more experiential, so we're not concentrating on value in this review but rather on experience. Hopefully this is helpful, given all of the context we're still not ranking this too low and giving it three stars out of five, in our world = barely okay with much improvement potential.

Great kick start to Osaka to understand the culture history and people. Where to eat and Josh was very knowledgeable on the history