BE KOBE tours

This was such a good tour! I genuinely enjoyed going to the different places and getting to explore them by myself. Though my advice is to make sure that you don’t schedule one during a local holiday as it can be extremely crowded.

Waited in front of Osaka Vip lounge at 8:20am on Wednesday, November 4th, 2026 for our bus meet up/pick up. At 8:20am, our tour guide : Nick was awesome, energetic and very funny! He was very entertaining to listen to his stories about the history of Osaka, sharing about his personal experiences, teaching us how to speak basic Japanese and whisk matcha and speaking both in English & mandarin nonstop to us. At 9:30am, we arrived to Katsuoji temple & stayed until 11am. We ate lunch at restaurant:京都わさび 嵐山店 & did matcha whisking and explored Arashiyama Bamboo Forest. I enjoyed exploring Hōkan-ji Temple (Yasaka Pagoda) It was very nice to end the day and go shopping around the stores. We got dropped off to Osaka VIP Villa Namba at 7pm and had a eventful day & ate at the restaurant for dinner that Nick recommended and was so tasty! Thank you so much Nick for hosting us and thank you so much to the driver for driving us safely and timely to our destinations.

yoshi was a terrific host and tour guide. he was very knowledgeable and also very considerate of my injured daughter who had to transport in a wheelchair. we saw so many wonderful sites and he knew so much detail about each of them. he even recommended a terrific lunch at a beautiful venue. It was a wonderful day.

Very fun and informative trip with our guide Natsuki- she was super knowledgeable and helpful. We really enjoyed all three locations, and Natsuki was able to provide lots of interesting context for the temples and pathways. She also suggested a second tour to us which we took and really enjoyed. Strongly recommend this tour! guide: Natsuki is the best!

Booked this for my family of 6. It was very convenient as we wanted a private transport arrangement with pick up from our hotel. The itinerary was customised based on what we wanted to see which was Nara-Uji- Kyoto all in 10 hours. Had to top up 3000 yen to add Uji + parking/toll fees (separate- it was around 10000yen) but it was worth it! The company contacted us prior to the trip to confirm the itinerary and pick up time. Lunch can be arranged or you can eat at any one of your stops. This trip would never have happened with the usual bus tour as typically it would be just two cities Nara & Kyoto (Uji not included). Driver was very polite throughout but could only speak in Mandarin. Not an issue as we were able to communicate using Google Translate. Driver waited in the car while we took our time to explore and we were not rushed at all. Just need to be mindful that it takes around 1.5hrs back to Osaka city from Kyoto. Our family had the best time. Thank you!

It was a worthwhile experience. The meeting place at VIP bus liner is accessible from our Sakae hotel. Punctuality means 30 minutes earlier as the bus leaves right on time. If you want to explore food on your own choose without lunch as the booked lunch was served past 2pm . We enjoyed hida beef skewers at Takayama and the grilled Hida beef at Shira kawago, it was soooo good my 11 years old definitely loved it. Shout out to our very accommodating guide Mr. BARA-SAN, thank you for sharing the history, culture and practices of the places we went to.

Our Chinese tour guide, Xiao Yu, was excellent! She accompanied us to every planned attraction, and even told us about a traditional wooden Starbucks on Sannenzaka near Kiyomizu-dera Temple. Thanks to Xiao Yu for leading our tour; we had a wonderful time today! 😃

Himeji Castle was the only highlight of this trip, and Arima Onsen was a nice experience, while the night view was quite ordinary and not recommended. However, the most impressive part was our tour guide, who was very friendly, multilingual, fluent in Mandarin, and provided excellent service with careful explanations of everything we needed to pay attention to. If there is a next time, I would be very happy to join a tour with this guide and driver again, and I would definitely recommend it to others.