Reviews for Arigato Travel / Arigato Japan Food Tours

Great time exploring Shibuya with Ray

The Shibuya food tour with Ray was great. We learnt about the food from different regions of Japan and all the restaurants we visited were different in a good way. Ray kept the kids interested and also showed us the best place to watch the Shibuya crossing. Overall, wonderful experience. The only thing I would like to mention is to probably update the description of the meeting spot as it doesn’t seem to be accurate. Shibuya is a very busy area and for somebody who is not local it was quite stressful to find the spot.

Product: Best of Shibuya Food Tour

Jane is great!

Jane is knowledgeable and lovely! We really enjoyed meeting Jane and learning about the food, and tasting it! It was a lot of fun

Product: Classic Tsukiji Food Tour

Super Awesome Food Tour with Jane

Jane did an incredible job at showing us all the ins and outs of Kyoto. Not only was the food amazing, she taught us all we needed to know about history and traditions of the foods and area we were eating. Can’t recommend more, thank you Jane!!

Product: Best of Shibuya Food Tour

Romp through tsukiji

Jane was a wonderful guide! She helped us get all the right foods for a group of very diverse palates. We especially liked the soup, the strawberries and the three types of tuna!

Product: Classic Tsukiji Food Tour

Best of Shubuya

My family and I went on a wonderful tour with Jane! She had amazing fun facts about the neighborhood and took the time to explain the history of each place and new food we tried. For our first time in Tokyo, Jane was the perfect guide!!

Product: Best of Shibuya Food Tour

We had an amazing Asakuka food tour through Arigato. It was interesting, delicious, helpful, friendly, and a great way to learn more about this area of Tokyo and Japan in general. The food was great, the tour guides were fun and friendly and great with our kids. We'd happily do this again!

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Shinjuku/Golden Gai was a great way to wrap up our visit to Japan.

Fun! Wesley was a great guide and took great photos for us. Delicious hidden gems! Very knowledgeable of the neighborhoods. Enjoy!

Product: Shinjuku Golden Gai Food Tour

Fabulous tour with Ully. Knowledge and tips. Delicious food. Secret insider stops. New experiences. Highly recommend.

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Very good

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Fun and informative

Jane was great! Great information. Well organized tour with great food. The length was perfect and the pacing between eating and touring was great

Product: Classic Tsukiji Food Tour

Wonderful nighttime food tour in Hiroshima

We thoroughly enjoyed our Hiroshima nighttime tour with Miyuke. She was incredibly knowledgeable and interesting as well as interested in us and our experiences. She showed us some great places to eat and drink and made our short stay in Hiroshima very memorable. Arigato!

Product: Best of Hiroshima Food Tour

Retro Osaka Street Food Tour: Shinsekai with Akiko

Thursday 10th December Our evening food tour of Osaka’s Shinsekai area with our guide Akiko was an unforgettable mix of incredible food and local culture. We sampled a belltower sweet filled with seasonal white sweet potato, then moved on to crispy Kushi katsu skewers and savory okonomiyaki before enjoying what was easily the best sushi we’ve ever eaten, along with perfectly grilled yakitori, finishing on a silky egg custard. In between tastings, Akiko led us to a small local shrine, arranged a Japanese knife demonstration and explanation at the Tower Knife Shop. She even squeezed in some fun at a retro game parlor and at a shooting gallery. The pacing was perfect, the variety outstanding, and the experience felt both authentic and personal from start to finish.

Product: Osaka Shinsekai Evening Food Tour

Fun and Fantastic

It was fantastic. First time in japan and honestly, the food we ate I really liked. Diante was very friendly and taught me somethings I didnt know about Japan. The small guided tour and expliation of the running man was a nice touch. I felt like it was great experince, and I would do it again.

Product: Absolute Osaka Food Tour

Sashimi for breakfast: Yes please!

We did the Tsukiji fish market breakfast tour in Tokyo, fall of 2025 with Jane, of Arigato Travel. It was great. We tagged along as Jane coursed through the extensive maze of stalls. She was making selections, picking up and purchasing things along the way. She stopped to talk to some of the vendors that she knew and explained to us what we were seeing. After that, she found us a table where she laid out a generous buffet. The market was not crowded although there were other shoppers. The table was also fairly quiet. Breakfast was excellent! She was able to respect my wife’s dietary restrictions against gluten (wheat) and lactose (milk). It also was cool that she had some fresh wasabi. She scraped it or grated it on what she said was a bit of shark tail, and brushed some onto each of our plates. Yum!

Product: Classic Tsukiji Food Tour

Must do for quick Tokyo visit

We were only in Tokyo for the weekend, and I am so happy we chose to do this tour! It gave us the opportunity to experience a wide variety of foods and see areas we might not have ventured to on our own or with limited time. I would recommend this to everyone visiting Tokyo. It was truly unforgettable and now I try to find something similar anytime I travel to a new city. The guide spoke English very well and the other in our group were fun.

Product: Best of Shibuya Food Tour

What a great tour with wonderful food and amazing places to see. We learnt so much about Japanese food and its history - Francois was such a knowledgeable and entertaining guide! Would really recommend Arigato Travel!

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We loved working with Carlotta and the team at Arigato Travel for our trip to Japan, which spanned all sorts of wonderful experiences from Tokyo to Kyoto and then to smaller towns with unique experiences outside of the tourist fray. They were so responsive to our questions and needs in advance of the trip and when we were on the ground, and we so appreciated it - they made Japan SO easy to navigate and just enjoy, especially with a foodie focus and awesome guides, we hit so many memorable experiences. We would be quick to work with them again on a future trip to Japan - which we already so want to do, even having only been back 2 weeks!

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Attend with an empty stomach

What an amazing experience! Our guide Kentaro was passionate about Japanese cuisine. He was highly engaging and very thorough in his explanations of Japanese food and culture.

Product: Absolute Osaka Food Tour

Sandra and Masako were great! Showed us some amazing food and taught a us all about the culture and etiquette.

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Culinary experience

Fabulous walking, food tour. Yoshi, an engaging and knowledgeable guide, took us to hidden food treasures, some tucked away in narrow streets which we would have never discovered on our own. Thanks Yoshi.

Product: Best of Shibuya Food Tour