Private tours with professional English guides in Kyoto, Tokyo, Nara

Your Japan Private Tours & Specialty Services has been offering tailor-made private tours and travel services/consulting for Kyoto, Tokyo, Nara and other popular locations in Japan for nearly 20 years.

We focus on giving our clients the very best regardless if it is their first time to Japan or their tenth. Every trip is a one-time chance to get it right.

Let us know how we can make your time in Japan perfect from start to finish: email us today!

The considerable communication problems and cultural barriers foreigners face in Japan usually results in a steep learning curve: i.e. a lot of precious time wasted and considerable frustration. Our tailor-made private tours and travel services/expertise for the greater Kyoto, Tokyo area and other popular Japan destinations make sure that you get the value, convenience and attention you need to have a wonderful time in Japan.

Based on nearly 20 years of travel experience in Japan, high-level Japanese skills and a great love of Japan, the Canadian director of Your Japan Private Tours & Specialty Services, Ian Ropke, and his personally selected team provide clients interested in traveling or doing business in Japan with a wide range of luxury & specialty services.

Previous Your Japan Private Tour clients include executives of BAE Systems (formerly known as British Aerospace; we coordinate their annual Japan cultural seminars), Volvo, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, Fannie Mae, Prudential Financial (private tours for their 2004 board meeting in Japan), the Oklahoma City Rotary Club, and countless affluent individuals and families. Click on the following link to see a list of recent testimonials.

Contact Your Japan Private Tours & Specialty Services for private tours all over Japan, and reliable, quality Japan travel services: email us today!

Tokyo private tours with bilingual guides

We offer high-value customized private tours of Tokyo and the surrounding area with the guidance of our trained bilingual tour guides. In addition to guided tours of Tokyo's best attractions, including the very traditional and the supremely modern, we also offer our clients the chance to experience the world's biggest fish market at dawn, as well as fascinating side trips just beyond the metropolis (Nikko, Hakone, Machiko, hiking). Looking for a truly traditional setting to experience Japanese tea ceremony? We know just the place. We also have an excellent list of restaurant recommendations.

Kyoto private tours and private guides

Our private tours of Kyoto offer the visitor some of the most exotic scenes in the world. This is especially true if you know how to get off the beaten track. We do! Let our trained private tour guides show you the wonders of ancient Japan. Have a relaxing, fascinating time in Japan. Let Your Japan Private Tours take care of all your needs. If this is your first trip to Kyoto (or Japan, for that matter), then the experienced, guided assistance we provide will surely result in the perfect trip. Our unique Kyoto tours (full day and half day) introduce the visitor to a selection of well-known sights (a number of which you will not find i guide books) as well as a rich texture of backstreet and off-the-beaten track views of ancient, always mysterious Kyoto. Similar tours of Nara (for which a whole day is required) are also available. We are also more than happy to suggest off-the-beaten track restaurants and bars, so that you can have a really Japanese experience!

If you're looking for a memorable, effortless experience in Kyoto and the surrounding area, then we will make sure you have a fabulous time in the Old Captital. We feel that the quality and attention to detail we provide is, for lack of a better word, priceless.

For detailed information on what's on in Kyoto, visit the Kyoto Visitor's Guide homepage click here.

Nara private tours with bilingual guides

Our private tours of Nara will take you to Horyuji Temple, where you can see the wonders of the world's oldest wooden buildings (built nearly 1,400 years ago!), and Nara Park. In Nara Park you will see Todaiji Temple and its immense bronze Buddha, Kasuga Grand Shrine, Kofukuji Temple, and stroll past a number of fine scenes from the Nara period (694-794). If you come to Kyoto, then you should also plan on seeing the timeless attractions of Nara. Nara generally requires a full day. It is about 40 min. by train from JR Kyoto Station. Driving to Nara in a hired car is not recommended as it can take much longer than the train to arrive.