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Melissa was amazing highly recommended tour overall.

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Excellent tour with an excellent guide !

Really good tour. Our guide, Clara was very knowledgeable and introduced us to important aspects of the japanese food culture. The tour goes around the maket, where the guide presents us all types of fish and products available there and tellss us about the story of the market. Do not have breakfast prior to the tour, you will eat a lot !

Product: Classic Tsukiji Food Tour

Asakusa at sunset

Ray is a great and passionate guy. He gave us a great welcome on our very first day in Japan! Tour was interesting and food was great! Ray provided us with interesting info along the tour and he was a pleasure to be with! He’s a nice, chatty and fun guy..would totally recommend!

Product: Asakusa, Tokyo's #1 Family Food Tour

A great experience

We really enjoyed our sake tour with our guide Sanae. The museum was interesting, lunch was great and the tasting at the end was both interesting and great fun. But the highlight of the tour was Sanae, who was a wonderful, gracious and entertaining guide.

Product: Sake Town Tour in Saijo Hiroshima

We had an amazing tour with Saika throughout Asakusa! She took us to the local spots and showed us traditional Japanese cuisine. One of our favorites was the Menchi katsu - a must have! Saika was so nice and knowledgeable throughout the tour. Highly recommend to anyone visiting Japan!

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This tour was awesome. Hiroyuki gave us a great historical perspective on Kiyoto, toured many local sites and we experienced so many culinary delights. I highly recommend taking this tour….with Hiroyuki if you can. Thanks Hiro for a wonderful experience!

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Fun and interesting breakfast tour of Tsukiji fish market! Our guide, Shigeki-san, was knowledgeable and shared insights into local customs and culture - it was great to have an insider lead us through the sensory overload of the market! He was sensitive to our interests and my mom's physical limits and moved at the perfect pace while we paused often to look at the beautiful seafood. Our first food stop was in a booth tucked away in an alley, where we learned chopstick etiquette and other table manners over rice, miso soup, and broiled black cod. We wound through the stalls collecting specialties here and there, including tamagoyaki and tako senbei cracker made to order. At the end, Shigeki prepared a "picnic" in the rooftop food court, presenting all our pickings from the market for tasting. Favorites were the otoro slices, bonito tataki, and plump oysters, and we even survived a sample of fugu!(IYKYK) Shigeki ground fresh wasabi at the table - the real deal - and even peeled raw shrimp for us on the spot. It's too bad we didn't have this tour as an introduction to our time in Japan, but it was definitely a grand finale to our vacation!

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Westley was an incredible tour guide! The food at each restaurant was perfectly done, his breadth of knowledge about the locations and customs was impressive, and this was hands down the most fun I've ever had on a tour!

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Great food and tour

Loved this food tour! Our guide, Natsumi, was very nice and had great info to share as we walked around Dotonbori. My friend and I loved all the food, and she was able to work with my vegetarian diet at almost every stop (the exception being takoyaki, which I expected). I loved anll the other food, especially the options she selected for us at the izakaya. This is our third tour with this company throughout Japan. I recommend them all! Thanks for showing us the great food and culture around Osaka!

Product: Absolute Osaka Food Tour

Really great tour. Our guide, Glenda, was very knowledgeable and procured a wide variety of foods for us to try. We all really enjoyed our tour with her. I highly recommend.

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Sebastian was a great guide!!

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Shibuya food tour enjoyed by all

Our family of two (jet-lagged) teens thoroughly enjoyed the Shibuya food tour. Saika was a delight ep spend the afternoon with! We left with full bellies, some local gems and a new friend!

Product: Best of Shibuya Food Tour

Great tour, great guide, great food!

What a great tour! Our guide was fantastic! She took us through all the areas of the fish market and was very knowledgeable about the area and its history. She provided a wide range of different foods for us to try. It was a wonderful tour and I highly recommend it!

Product: Arigato Japan Food Tours

Great tour and picnic

A great tour of looking, tasting, shopping and picnicking. Jane also gave us some lessons in etiquette, which I can never hear too many times. I was not able to make the first half of the tour because I was feeling under the weather but Jane took care of my (young adult) children on her own and they had a great time. When I met up, my kids were educating me on everything Jane had already told them. I also loved that she took us to the stall of the first and only woman that has the license to do the fish shopping

Product: Classic Tsukiji Food Tour

Incredible

Alex was a fantastic host! We loved all of the food. Would highly recommend. So much more than food with great insights into Japan.

Product: Best of Shibuya Food Tour

We booked an ‘Authentic Food experience’ in Osaka, via the tour operator. It was £130 each then £165 to add an extra person on. So £465 for three people. What an absolute RIP OFF. Three hours of fast food outlets, one sat on a cramped table beneath plastic sheets with a disgusting drainage smell, with not a lot of food, and a couple of drinks each, that we could have done ourselves for about £50. A bit of local history from the guide but hardly worth mentioning. We have complained to the tour operator.

Product: Arigato Travel / Arigato Japan Food Tours

Arigato Travel helped us have an amazing first experience in Japan. Josh designed a custom experience that met all of our needs and preferences. The entire planning experience, guided tours, planned activities, and additional suggestions were amazing and fit our group perfectly. We got to experience so much in just a week without ever feeling overbooked. I highly recommend Arigato Travel for both guided tours and a itinerary planning. They made the whole experience so much easier and so much more meaningful than we could have ever done on our own.

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Tour was great and at a relaxed pace. Explained the history of what we toured. Guide was very courteous and made sure we were well taken care of.

Product: Kyoto Matcha Green Tea Tour

Custom Tour Experience

Josh Fields and the amazing team at Arigato Travel worked with us to design our Tokyo and surrounding area trip to make it the perfect fit for us. Josh met with us online prior to our trip to help us plan out the itinerary and even rearranged things for us to fit in a bonus trip to Shizuoka. We had Josh and Wes as tour guides and both were super accommodating to the needs of our group (one with food allergies and one with bad knees). The support we received from the Arigato Team was just amazing. We never felt alone during our trip even when we were off on our own adventures. They answered questions, helped us find wonderful places to eat, shop, and explore all while sharing the beautiful history and culture of Japan. I highly recommend them.

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Outstanding tour with a great tour guide

The short tour was a great exposure to the Nishiki Market in Kyoto and give us a different perspective of the place and details were pointed out that we would not see otherwise. Great food and drink tasting is of course a big part of this tour. Highly recommended!

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