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Kyoto Arashiyama Best Spots 4h Private Tour with Licensed Guide
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Kyoto Arashiyama Best Spots 4h Private Tour with Licensed Guide

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Overview

Explore the cultural highlights and beautiful landscapes in two historically important districts in Kyoto on a walking tour of Arashiyama and Sagano. This 4-hour tour allows you to choose a few locations of your choice within the Arashiyama and Sagano areas. How about crossing the Togetsukyo bridge to enjoy the river view and visit a magnificent temple like Tenryu-ji or a serene temple like Jojakko-ji Temple, and stroll through a beautiful bamboo forest?

Arashiyama/Sagano is a picturesque place where aristocrats have had their villas since ancient times. Whether you are a history and culture lovers who wants to visit temples, a nature lover or a shopper, there is always something for everyone in these areas.

Please choose 2-3 places that you wish to visit.

Activity location

  • Saga Arashiyama Station
    • Sagatenryuji Wakamiyacho
    • 616-8371, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Saga-Arashiyama Station
    • 11-1 Sagatenryūji Kurumamichichō
    • 616-8373, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

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What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedLicensed Local English Speaking Guide
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedTransport Fee (Participants + Guide)
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedEntrance Fees (Participants + Guide)
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedOther Private Expenses
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedPrivate Vehicle
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedHotel Pick-up

Know before you book

  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Travellers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
  • A moderate amount of walking is included. Please wear comfortable walking shoes
  • This is a walking tour. A private vehicle is not included.
  • Public transport or local taxis maybe used to transfer between spots.

Activity itinerary

Saga Arashiyama Station
  • 1m
Meet with your guide at 9:00/13:00 at JR Arashiyama Station (in front of a ticket gate). Please choose a few must-see sights from the list below On average, you can visit 2 spots during this tour.
Togetsukyo Bridge
  • 1m
Built over the Katsura River, this 155 metre long bridge is one of the iconic images of Arashiyama. It's a great spot to take in the surrounding scenery and Arashiyama mountains as the backdrop.
Tenryuji Temple
  • 1m
  • Admission ticket not included
This temple has a long history and is one of the most famous zen temples in all of Kyoto. Known as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it has a stunning garden where the plants and flowers make for a different feel every season.
Okochi Sanso Garden
  • 1m
  • Admission ticket not included
Denjiro Okochi, a famous actor of Samurai film, spent about 30 years building this vast villa garden, which covers an area of 19800 square metres. The garden is surrounded by cherry blossoms in spring and autumn leaves in autumn, and offers beauty in every season. The view of the Hozu River flowing below and the city of Kyoto is also a highlight.
Jojakkoji Temple
  • 1m
  • Admission ticket not included
Located on the hillside of Mt Ogura, which has been famous for its autumn foliage since the late Heian period (794-1185), Jōjakkoji Temple has about 200 old maple trees, which turn red, orange and yellow and combine with the green of the moss.
Nisonin
  • 1m
  • Admission ticket not included
A quiet temple surrounded by beautiful landscapes that have survived the passage of 1200 years. The temple is famous for its autumn foliage. The temple is called 'Nison-in' because it enshrines the two principal Buddha images. The two principal images have faces and figures like twins, with their left and right hands raised and lowered symmetrically. The temple is located a short distance from central Arashiyama, so you can enjoy a moment of tranquillity.
Giōji Temple
  • 1m
  • Admission ticket not included
This temple is known as a ""temple of the tragic love"". It was the temple where a lady dancer who was favoured by the powers of the time lost his favour and spent time as a nun after a broken heart.The grounds of the temple are covered with beautiful green bamboo and green maples, with a moss-covered garden. The window in the antechamber of the hermitage is also worth seeing. It reflects a variety of colours depending on the way light enters the room.
Mikami Shrine
  • 1m
The only shrine in Japan dedicated to the founder of the hairdressing and beauty industry (cosmetics, hair washes, hair growth products, wigs, etc.), it remains a shrine of deep devotion to the hairdressing trade, and there is a hair mound in the grounds where hair is donated.
Adashino Nenbutsu-ji Temple
  • 1m
  • Admission ticket not included
This area has been a place of burial since ancient times, first with wind burial, but later with earth burial, where people dedicated a stone Buddha and mourned for the eternal separation of the dead. The approximately 8,000 stone Buddhas and stupas enshrined in the grounds are the graves of people buried in the area.
Otagi Nenbutsu-ji Temple
  • 1m
  • Admission ticket not included
The origin of this temple can be traced back to 8th century but the temple became uninhabited during the WWII and was abandoned after a typhoon in 1950 caused extensive damage to the temple grounds, halls and Buddhist statues, but was rebuilt in 1955 when Buddhist sculptor Nishimura Kimitomo (1915-2003) was appointed abbot, and the reconstruction of the most run-down temple in Kyoto began. The temple is known as a ""temple of healing"", where visitors can relax and feel at ease with the expressive line-up of 1,200 statues of arhats carved by ordinary worshippers.
Saga Toriimoto Traditional Buildings Preservation Area
  • 1m
Toriimoto is a conservation area located at the far end of Sagano which is about 600 metres along Atago Highway leading to Atago Shrine.The area has a mix of farmhouse-style buildings with thatched roofs and machiya-style buildings with two floors and tiled roofs, and has a well-preserved character of a Japanese rural historical landscape.
Monkey Park Iwatayama
  • 1m
  • Admission ticket not included
If you are animal lovers, why not visiting here? Around 120 Japanese macaques currently live in the wild in this monkey park. The park is full of nature and the monkeys can be seen throughout the year.
Bamboo Forest Street
  • 1m
This is one of the biggest attarctions in all of Kyoto, with thousands of tall bamboo towering in the area making for a beautiful forest. It's an amazing spot that makes you feel like you're in a fairy tale.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESSaga Arashiyama Station
    • Sagatenryuji Wakamiyacho
    • 616-8371, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLESaga-Arashiyama Station
    • 11-1 Sagatenryūji Kurumamichichō
    • 616-8373, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

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