Riviera Travel
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A great tour
A great tour, with a superb guides. We got to see a lot and the tour was well organised. Big shout out to Panka, who was amazing. She was very approachable, well organised and unflappable. Nothing was too much for her and she kept everyone up-to-date and on-time (which with 37 people in our group could not have been an easy task). Our local guides Yuri & Meg were knowledgeable, friendly and had good senses of humour. There were some differences between the published itinerary and what we actually did. For example, you visit the Tsukiji Fish Market area as the very first trip. This is not even mentioned in the itinerary. The itinerary suggests that you actually visit Akihabara and Harajuku - you don’t… you just drive through them. We’re these issues for us personally? No… but they may have been for others. We feel that we had enough time to do our own things as well. This was mostly in the late afternoons and evenings, although you do get a full day to do your own things in Kyoto, plus until 2 PM on the final day (which was plenty of time to do the full Philiospher’s Walk). There were 37 of us in our group. We were the youngest in the group (44 and 52), with most of the group being in their 60s. this didn’t bother us in the slightest. Almost all were friendly and nice people who we chatted with often, both during the day tours and later on in the evenings during meals. Inevitably there was a small minority who seemed negative and not happy with the tour, but this seemed to be more a reflection of their personality. We would recommend the Best of Japan tour. 10/10.