Tourist Japan Reviews 

A tour that casts a spell over you, with brilliant, friendly guides and unforgettable sights, tastes, and experiences. I highly recommend it!

Jiro took the time to teach us Japanese culture as we walked through the shrine. We learned so much about Tokyo and took in important sites. He is an amazing guide.

We did street food tasting with Aki. He was very knowledgeable and patient to answer all of our questions. He introduced us to many good food and snacks. We had a great time. High recommended the tour!

Jiro was very knowledgeable and friendly. We had a wonderful day walking around Tokyo. The hours and the kms flew by!

Really friendly and accommodating guide (Jiro). Knowledgeable and easy to understand. Enthusiastic about sharing his culture. Great recommendations for my evening plans after the tour. I had a fantastic day and evening also.

My sister and I had the pleasure of having Aki as our personal tour guide (with 4 other people). We were very fortunate to have had such a lovely experience walking around Tokyo city through the imperial palace gardens, ginza shopping district, harujuku district, shinbuya crossing and more. What a delightful and insightful perspective from a local. Some highlights made my day even more special- celebrating my birthday with a special treat at Haru sushi restaurant. Highly recommend.

Jiro was amazing, he had a great sense of humour and showed us a lot of great stalls, temples, shrines etc. The food tastings were awesome and very different to what we are used too.

Aki was a fantastic guide and made our day really enjoyable. We were a small group of 6 people and we learned so much about Tokyo and some of the top places to visit in the City. We also learned how to buy tickets and navigate the subway which was really helpful. Lunch at Kura was great fun and inexpensive and we had plenty of time to take in each of the sights we visited. A great mix of parks, temples and shopping areas and a great way to spend our first day in Tokyo. We now have the confidence to explore more on our own. Thank you Aki.

Jiro took us all around Tokyo sharing local knowledge, it's impossible to see all of Tokyo in one day but we covered a lot of ground. We endee it with the Shibuya scramble which was awesome

We had a wonderful experience with Jiro this morning in Tsukiji fish market as we walked and talked.
It was a super cultural experience that we would highly recommend to any visitor to Japan.
Our guide was understanding and helpful in explaining everything.
We hope to see Jori again before we leave. As we say in our Gaelic language
“Buíochas ó chroí,Gura Míle maith agat”

Jiro was a fantastic guide! It was a lot of fun for us exploring the fish Market and the shrine and temple.
It was nice having Aki as well, as he is a wonderful person.
We would love to have either of them again!

This was a full day of Tokyo highlights, places that are iconic. Our guide Jiro managed to guide our small group thru Temples, Shrines, Cool spots, great view points, Imperial gardens( no benches😂)packed subways, conveyor belt sushi 😀 and ending by dashing across Shibuya crossing . This is a long day. Jiro did an awesome job, This tour could easily be split into two days. Can not commend our guide Jiro enough for his patience with some of the group, who lagged behind due to different issues. Everyone was very understanding and a good time was had by all. This tour was worth it.

Great walkthrough the history and culture of Japan

Jiro was a great guide. Ended up just being me on the tour so felt very VIP full of interesting facts of area and location with history was fun to learn on enjoyable morning with good tasty stops along the way.

Overall experience was amazing…..guides we’re knowledgeable and eager to answer any questions
Presented to them….I didn’t like the distances
Between the hotels subways and train stations
For meetup locations…..appreciated the vouchers
Really helpful

Shish was amazing!! He did not only provided all the historic information we need as tourists, but also provided more “common” facts, which have been helpful during all of our stay in Japan. If you have a chance, you should book him!

We were a group of 7 on the Tokyo Tsukiji fish market food tasting tour. We had the best day with Shish, he is so friendly, passionate, knowledgeable, patient and fun with excellent communication skills, we had lots of laughs and tasted lots of different nothings. It’s a terrific tour & we highly recommend it. Thank you Shish

We had a great day exploring Tokyo with our amazing guide Shish he was very accommodating and answered all of our questions. He made the day a 5 star

Emma and Jason

My husband and I had an amazing walking tour of Tokyo, all thanks to our wonderful guide, Shish. This is our first time in Japan and only our second day here, and Shish set the bar very high for the rest of our tours. He was incredibly knowledgeable, personable, and charismatic. Communication was perfect and appreciated. We are only sad that we dont have Shish for our guide for the rest of our time here in Japan. Thank you for an unforgettable experience!

My wife and I did a 7-Day tour with Tourist, Japan, and we both really regret it. First thing to know about this company, is there not like a normal company for tours. They are a middleman, meaning that they make logistical arrangements for you, but don't themselves take you on the tours themselves. The second thing to know, communicating with them is very problematic. It's done through WhatsApp messages, and they are very slow to respond. There's an emergency number, but we never got it to work. The next thing to know is that the hotels that they book are very poor, and for the price quite a rip off. Oftentimes these hotels are far away from the meeting locations that you're supposed to go to every morning to meet up with your quote" tour" for the day. This means taking taxis or walking excessive distances like early in the morning to meet up with your group for the day.

They are also quite unreliable and inconsistent. The tours we took varied significantly. Some were quite good, as they were operated by independent tour providers. Some are just okay. One time, the tour guide didn't show up for the tour, and I was left to arrange logistics with the tour provider, the hired driver, and tourist Japan. While we should have been on the tour, instead, I was arranging logistics so that the entire group didn't get stranded or the day cancelled. While tourist Japan did offer a discount and recognized this as an abject failure, they were unresponsive across several other complaints.

In conclusion, we did manage to have a great time in Japan, but this is despite working with tourist Japan, not because of it.

Anyone would be capable of replicating the experience they provide. All you need to do is find a hotel room in the city, and then book independent tours each day for yourself. By my estimate, this would save approximately $2,000 out of a $4,000 tour package. My wife and I typically love to do part of our vacation as a tour package, but this one was an abject failure. We did quite enjoy our time in Japan, but this wasn't to do with anything that this company offered. And don't even get me started on the trains and the train transfers... Seriously look elsewhere!