Reviews for Arigato Travel / Arigato Japan Food Tours

Best Food tour yet!!

Absolutely outstanding! Jacob was our guide, was patient in us getting to our meeting point! Perfect conversation and knowledge of the city and history as well as modern cultures! We learned so much and had an amazing time!!

Product: Shinjuku Golden Gai Food Tour

Excellent tour! Russ was great and incorporated our interests into the tour. Amazing food and stories! Highly recommend!

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We had a great time with Natsumi seeing places in Osaka and trying delicious food we never would have found on our own. This was a great way for the whole family to explore and have dinner and learn about a new place! Natsumi was knowledgeable and fun and made us feel welcome.

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We had a wonderful tour of Golden Gai with Glenda! We ate & drank at a delicious yakatori stall in Omoide Yokocho, an eccentric izakaya + a flavorful ramen restaurant in Shinjuku, and ended the night with drinks in Golden Gai. We had a small group of 5 and the vibes were great!

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Great Kyoto Food Tour!

Pontocho Walking Food Tour We met our guide, Daniela for a walking food tour around the Pontocho and Gion Shirakawa areas. Our first stop was at the Kiharu Brasserie to experience the local Okonomiyaki 'pancake' dish, which was delicious. We moved on through the Gion district and Daniela pointed out places of interest in this rustic and historical area. We sampled teas and specialist sweets (including being given a gift of our choice) before going on to a restaurant sampling an assortment of Yakitori 'kebab' skewers, expertly chosen by Daniela, along with tastings of sake and craft beers. Daniela was a charming, friendly and informative host and we thoroughly enjoyed her company and expertise on the history of the area and guidance on choosing the local food to try. We would thoroughly recommend both Daniela and the walking food tour.

Product: Arigato Japan Food Tours

Our guide Matt O. was the best! Informative, friendly, and well acquainted with Osaka. He took us to places we never would have found on our own! The food was varied and very delicious. We had a great time.

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Great detail, Kentaro is a fantastic guide showing interest in all, and the food that was offered was interesting and beautiful! Definitely recommend!

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Had great time on our Osaka food tour. Our guide, Kentaro, was very knowledgeable and informative, giving us the cultural information about the food we were tasting. Hugely enjoyable!

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Izakaya Hopping Like a Local Tour

Josh was great. He took us to two very different places with excellent food--both off the beaten path that we would have never found ourselves!

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Cute and delicious food tour with amazing guide

This review is long overdue, but we wanted to share our wonderful experience on the "Crazy Cute & Kawaii Harajuku Food Tour" last November 2024. It ended up just being the tour guide, Wes, and our family: myself, my husband and 2 girls, ages 7 and 10. Wes was an amazing tour guide, giving us the history and cultural significance of the food we tried and teaching us about Japanese customs. He was very accommodating and flexible and geared the tour toward our interests. He took plenty of family photos of us which he shared with us after the trip. He even surprised us by stopping at a photo booth-type store at the end to take some cute family photos as a memento. We ate SO MUCH good food that day. We felt like we were touring the city with an old friend instead of being on a tour.

Product: Kawaii Food Tour of Harajuku Tokyo

We had a fantastic experience on our food tour of Osaka with Kentaro. We learned so much and the kids loved it as well!

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Cute Tokyo food tour

We had an amazing time on the Harajuku Kawaii Food Tour — a fun, colorful two-hour walk through the heart of Tokyo’s cutest neighborhood. From giant rainbow cotton candy and Japanese-style pizza, to creative onigiri, every stop had something surprising and really delicious. We also tried handmade sugar art candy, matcha ice cream, a dreamy matcha tiramisu, and the classic crepes Harajuku is known for. The food was not only super photogenic but genuinely tasty, balancing sweet and savory bites perfectly. Huge thanks to our guide Wesp, who was so kind, knowledgeable, and made the whole experience even more fun and memorable. Highly recommend if you’re looking to eat your way through Tokyo’s cutest street!

Product: Kawaii Food Tour of Harajuku Tokyo

Great Shibuya food tour with Jane

We had a great 5 stop food tour with Jane in Shibuya, sushi tastes never tasted before, the best ramen ever an much more! Highly recommended!

Product: Best of Shibuya Food Tour

Ken Taro was an excellent guide! We learned a lot about Osaka and local Osaka foods, while getting to try them as well! The food was delicious and we learned some cool history.

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Gion food tour

We did a food tour in Gion Kyoto. Our guide was very good. We had a difficult customer in our group and our guide handled the situation very calmly and professionally. The tour was interesting and food v, tasty. We did think it was a little on the expensive side though. A travellers tip- July is very very hot in Kyoto, take this into account if you are planning on doing any walking and take lots of water with you.

Product: Absolutamente Osaka

Sehr sehr gut gemacht

Product: Osaka: Food Tour at Night with Tastings

We had a great time on our Tsukiji breakfast tour. Cara was wonderful explaining traditions, history, and the fish market.

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Highly recommended fish market tour

“The tour was far more wide ranging than we’d expected it to be, starting with a delicious coffee, followed by a visit to an unfamiliar looking Buddhist temple and explanation of the land reclamation in the area. Breakfast in our own little booth in the market came next (plus learning a few Japanese phrases to express gratitude for food) and then an extended tour of the street stalls. Stall holders don’t generally like visitors holding up proceedings and taking photos, but were very happy to allow this when they saw our guide, who’s obviously known to them. We then visited a small temple beloved by the merchants. More street food samples continued (sweet omlette, salty snacks, flavoured sesame seeds) and visits to kitchen shops (where I was pleased to buy a matcha whisk!) Finally, we enjoyed a delicious picnic outside, but under cover, with the fresh produce our guide had bought en route. Clara was our lovely guide - she was very personable and friendly and we learned a lot about how she’d adjusted to life in Japan having arrived from Guatemala.”

Product: Classic Tsukiji Food Tour

Great, flexible food tour in a vibrant lesser-known area of Osaka

Had a great time trying out some local specialties! We enjoyed all the food, and the experience of making Japanese Osaka-style pancakes was a delight. Our guide Russ was entertaining and extremely amenable to changing the itinerary, preemptively selecting highlights of both food and activities to give us the best Shinsekai has to offer.

Product: Osaka Shinsekai Evening Food Tour

Attended the Kawaii Food Tour and absolutely loved it. Jacob was a great guide who showed us multiple cool and hidden spots that we have otherwise not have found while giving us fascinating insights into Japanese culinary culture. Definitely recommend the Arigato Travel to everyone for your Japan activities if you want to experience something new and unique.

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