Aichi, Ehime, Gifu, Hiroshima, Hyogo (Living), Kyoto, Mie, Nara, Osaka, Shimane, Tokushima, Tottori, Wakayama, Kanazawa, Nagoya, Mount Koya, Kobe, Himeji, Other Hyogo Locations
English, Japanese (Native)
5 hours on average
3 days ago
Hello, I'm HIDEo YOSHIda. Please call me HIDEYOSHI, the same name as the famous shogun who built the Osaka Castle in 1585.
I was born in Kobe and worked in Osaka for nearly 40 years. I would like to introduce the Kansai region to you ,including Kobe, Osaka, Kyoto, Nara, and Wakayama.
Kobe is one of the two largest ports in Japan, along with Yokohama. After the opening of the Port of Kobe in 1868, foreigners built their residences on the hillside of the Kitano-cho area, overlooking the ocean. Many of the foreign residences are now open to the public as museums, including the Weathercock House, with it's symbol weathercock on the triangle-shaped roof.
In Meriken Park, the red Port Tower (the city's landmark), creates a beautiful contrast against the white Kobe Marine Museum. The museum's design was inspired by the waves and sailing ships.
When you have a chance to visit Osaka, please join my tour. I'm sure you'll enjoy the interesting and historical, scenic spots. For example, Shin-Sekai is a downtown area with a strange mix of nostalgic atmosphere and contemporary energy. You can try local foods (kushikatsu, sushi, tempura) at a reasonable price. Billiken (a famous statue of the spirit of luck) will be waiting for you!!. Dotombori is a popular street with a lot of flashy signboards. Osaka is widely known as a "Kuidaore-no-machi", or literally "drinking and eating luxuriously to death." Osaka Castle was built by Toyotomi HIDEYOSHI in 1585. Oh, it's my residence, isn't it !
These days "The Wizarding World of Harry Potter" area in USJ, or Universal Studios Japan, is also attracting more and more people.
I'll be looking forward to seeing you !!
I guide you Sapporo, Furano, Otaru, Hakodate in Hokkaido / Aomori in Hokuriku / Miyazaki, Nagasaki, Kagoshima in Kyushu / Kochi, Matsuyama in Shikoku / Tottori, Shimane, Kanazawa, Sakaiminato in Japan Sea side. Please get in touch with me!!
Thank you.
We spent the entire day with Hideo, we met us at the cruise ship port and stayed with us until after dinner. Our day with him was the best day of our 14 day visit to Japan! He is kind, knowledgeable, and easy to be around. He made great recommendations and we would use him again for future tours.
I'm very happy to receive your excellent review. First we visited Engyoji Temple. It is the set of "The last samurai." And we entered the Himeji Castle called "White Egret Castle." Finally we had Kobe Beef for dinner. Thank you for joining my tour. I hope you come back to Japan again. I wish you and your family good health and happiness.
Hideo is an excellent guide, he explained everything so clearly, and give us a tour of the most important places to visit, very kind and helpfull, we highly recomend Hideo
Thank you for your excellent review. We visited Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park including Atomic Bomb Dome and Peace Memorial Museum. It was a day of the long vacation holidays, so the museum was so much crowded with people. Next we visited Hiroshima Castle. We could see the newly replaced Torii of Gokoku Shrine. It was the torii that we already saw in the panel in front of the Hypo center (Shima Hospital). I hope you come back to Japan. I wish you and your family all the best.
An absolutely fantastic tour of Hiroshima with Hideo! I can’t say enough about how much I and my group enjoyed our tour with Hideo. His attention to detail and knowledge of the sites were evident in the planning stages. Hideo reached out numerous times before our arrival in Japan to clarify what we wanted to see before we locked in the final itinerary. On the day we arrived in Hiroshima he met us at the port with sign in hand. We boarded our transport to visit the Atomic Dome, the Museum and then on to Miyajima. Hideo took us on a walking tour around the dome, stopping at each of the monuments to explain their significance. Everything he shared was delivered with the reverence required for site of service ch historical significance. Many in the group were overwhelmed with emotion from being at ground zero of the blast. From the Dome we walked to the Museum, which is a “must see attraction” for anyone looking to understand the impact of the use of Atomic Weaponry and the hopes that it is never used again. After a “heavy” beginning of the tour we were off the Miyajima Island. What a beautiful way to end the day and our tour. I want to thank Hideo as he was open the answer any question and delivered a professional tour in temperatures that exceeded 43C or 109F. He carried on without issue when people ½ his age were struggling. The comments from the group were of immense regard and thanks for Hideo, everyone loved it. If you are visiting Japan, Hiroshima is a “must stop” and Hideo would be the guide to show it to you. Thanks so much! Mike Expedia Cruises Oakville South (Ontario/Canada).
I'm very happy to receive your message. I showed you why Atomic Bomb Dome remained standing. In front of the Memorial Tower of mobilized students we saw the statued of Goddess that combines 3 religions. Sadako is lifting up the paper crane toward the sky in the Children's Peace Monument. We could see a lot of white tents because they were getting prepared to hold the Peace Memorial Ceremony on Aug 6 when the Atomic Bomb was dropped. In Miyajima we could see the Great Vermillion Shrine Gate from the ferry. In the evening it was almost full tide, so the shrine gate looked like as if it were floating on the sea. Despite the evening it was very hot and humid, but I'm relieved that all the guests were NOT suffering from the heat stroke (except me?). Thank you for joining my Hiroshima tour. I hope you enjoy Japan travel and I wish you and all the guets good health and happiness.
Hideo is an interesting and informative gentleman. The tour he took us on was well thought out and very full of top places around Kyoto that would have taken us much longer to get around without his expert knowledge. A thoroughly informative and interesting tour to top sites and the benefit of local knowledge made it seem very easy. Recommended.
Thank you for joining my Kyoto tour. I'm sure you could see how the Ninomaru Goten Palace was beautifully decorated in Nijojo Castle. Many outsider feual lords visited to meet shogun at this Palace. We visited Arashiyama Bamboo Forest and Tenryuji Temple where we could see a typical Japanese garden and beautiful lotus flowers in full bloom. I wish you good health and happiness.