Nara Full-day Private Tour with Government-Licensed Guide
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78 Ratings
Nara
Experience the best of Nara on a full-day private tour with a government-licensed guide. Explore ancient sites, discover modern attractions, and create a customized itinerary tailored to your interests.
Duration: 6 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
What's Included
  • Licensed Local Guide
  • Customizable Tour of your choice of 2-3 sites from ‘What to expect’ list
What's Not Included
  • Transportation fees, Entrance fees, Lunch, and Other personal expenses
  • Private Vehicle
  • You cannot combine multiple tour groups.
  • Guide Entry fees are only covered for sights listed under What to Expect.
Additional Information

Experience Nara with a certified and well-versed multilingual guide! Your guide will assist you to make the most of a half-day pedestrian tour of Nara, showcasing both the contemporary and historical facets of this unique and age-old Japanese city.

Nara’s close location to Kyoto and Osaka, along with its impressive array of traditional attractions, makes it a perfect place for a day excursion from either of these larger cities. Your private guide will facilitate a memorable and efficient half-day walking tour of this historic Japanese city.

Note1: Please choose your preferred spots from a list provided in the tour details to design your personalized itinerary.
Note
2: The National Government Licensed Guide Interpreter accreditation is granted by the Japanese government and necessitates a comprehensive understanding and knowledge of Japanese culture and history.

  • This is a walking tour. Pick up is on foot.
Location
Todai-ji Temple
406-1 Zoushi-cho,
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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295jillm
Apr 23, 2024
Very experienced Nara guide - We had a fantastic day in Nara with Junichi! He is a very enthusiastic and informative guide, with deep knowledge of Nara. We had a full day of visiting Nara park, with a lunch stop and visit to a sake brewery at the end of the day. Junichi was very organised and even told us which train (time and platform) to take from Kyoto. Great sense of humour and a great day!
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Chloe_t
Apr 21, 2024
Fun time in Nara with Hiro - Hiro was a great guide. He had lots on interesting facts to share and picked a great spot for lunch on the fly, based on my specific tastes.
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Adam
Apr 18, 2024
Comprehensive and enjoyable - Toshi was an excellent guide. He was well organized, knowledgeable, and spoke English perfectly. He took us everywhere and kept us on schedule. I would highly recommend him.
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Storyteller496978
Apr 17, 2024
Perfect Guide for Nara - Toshi was the perfect guide for us, fluent in English, extremely knowledgeable and with a relaxed manner. The communication before the trip was good and so we had no stress before or during our tour. Besides giving us a clear but simple understanding of Budhism and the largest Budha statue in Japan we also shared cultural similarities and differences. What we most loved were the quiet moments simply sitting and observing nature. Thank you Toshi for a memorable day.
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Kimberlyma2615pg
Apr 13, 2024
Loved the Nara deer! - We were based out of Osaka and took a local train to Nara. Our tour guide was Rie. She took us to visit the giant Buddha statue in Todai-ji. We walked up towards the Kasuga Taisha shrine. I recommend wearing comfortable shoes. Also if you want to feed the deer, they become friendlier the farther away from the cracker vendor (I bought 5 total). I made it my mission to feed the deer everywhere I went.
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Ededwards0007
Apr 13, 2024
Great experience with wonderful guide, Rie - My wife and I and a friend went on this tour with a wonderful guide, Rie, just yesterday. It was simply a great experience. She is clearly a very warm, caring person who works very hard to be sure that her guests get the most out of the experience. Her English is excellent and we really enjoyed talking with her - in fact, we were sorry to have to say goodbye when the tour had to end because she needed to go see her aging mother. Since she grew up in Nara and has also lived and worked in the States, she has the perfect background. We wanted to see one site, somewhat off the usual tourist trail but less crowded and fascinating - Horyuji - and since she hadn't been there in some years she actually went before we arrived to refresh her memory so she'd be ready for us! This was one of the best tours we've ever taken and, if Rie is representative of the guides this company uses, we'd certainly recommend them.
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Innameskin
Apr 11, 2024
I would recommend our tour guide-Junichi ! - Our tour guide, Junichi, was very interesting and informative! We also shared some stories and and had a good laugh 😆 We are really enjoyed the tour - Nara full day
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Nick_d
Apr 9, 2024
Sakura Season in Nara - Our tour guide, Yoshi, took special care to take us to some amazing shrines and temples in Nara and participate in some of the local attractions along the way. Outside of the Todaiji temple we got to feed the local deer and at learn to bow and make wishes at the Kasuga Taisha Shrine. One thing that Yoshi was amazing about is he also helped me set up a surprise marriage proposal by the Kofukuji Temple in a beautiful are near the pond. I couldn’t have been happier with my experience with the tour and our amazing tour guide Yoshi!
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Rebecca_k
Apr 8, 2024
Fantastic day in the sun and park - My Guide was Ken and he was an excellent local guide with a lot of knowledge of the area and Japan. He was very friendly It is a walking tour and not for people with mobility issues as we kept a good pace to get around three major sites and we also used public transport for short parts. The Sakura was in full bloom and so Nara park was a lovely place for a packed lunch. Todaji temple is amazing and the museum attached to the Heijo palace site is a fantastic place to visit and great for kids. I highly recommend this tour and Ken as a guide he saw me safely in to the train back to Osaka.
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926stefanof
Apr 7, 2024
An unforgettable day in Nara - It has been a pleasure to visit Nara with Masahiro, our guide. Thank you very much for all your explanations, for answering all our questions, for accompanying us to know a little piece of the wonderful country that is Japan. You made it a special day. We will always remember it lovingly. See you soon
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