Unique experience - Amazing experience, highly recommend! Our tour guide, Joyce, was also so welcoming and knowledgeable about Japanese culture. The temple lodging was our favourite stay of our trip!

10/10 would recommend - Very nice tour with lots of different things to see and a good amount of activities. Joyce was a great guide! We also loved the Oyaki, and the Sake tasting was fantastic!

Amazing tour - I had an amazing time with my guide, Joyce, on this Nagano tour. She is great tour guide, very knowledgeable about culture, traditions, town and food. She was very friendly and spoke fluent english. I had a really good time and enjoyed each moment of my tour. We visited many beautiful places and I participated in the fire ceremony with monks in Zenkoji temple. I tried unique food samplings and had sake tasting. I stayed overnight in temple Japanese style guest house and it was unforgettable experience. I really recommend this tour.

Samurai, Zenko-ji temple stay & Snow Monkeys - We had a wonderful time on our 2 day tour with Kevin! After meeting at Nagano station we were whisked away to Matsushiro. We were joined by a local guide and toured the castle ruins. After we visited the Samurai Residences and participated in a Katana Practice and watched a practice match. We also tried on a replica samurai uniform! Afterwards, we were taken for an overnight stay in a temple lodge which was a fantastic experience! The next morning, we enjoyed a tour of Zenko-ji Temple, a sake tasting and a delicious lunch. We finished the day with a visit to the Jigokudani Monkey Park which was magical! Kevin was friendly and provided excellent background information throughout. Thanks for a great tour!

Best tour of Nagano - This tour is really good as we learnt about Matsushiro Clan's history and heritage during the Edo period, we particularly enjoyed the 'katana' pratice with the master which we had so much fun and laughter..a memorable experience! We also enjoyed the Saki tasting, the temple tour and the wonderful vegetarian lunch. The trail to the monkey park is not as challenging as we thought but it was a wonderful encounter with the monkeys up close. Awesome! Joyce, the guide was very good and knowledgeable and she tried her best to help us with our request in anyway she can. It was a truly rewarding tour which we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves very much. 👍

Thank you Kevin - Obviously the temple is great and staying inside for the night in a wonderful traditional Japanese room with succulent meals was amazing… but nothing would have been the same without the kindness, flexibility and professionalism of Kevin