Osaka Tours and Trips

This group tour was a fantastic way for first-time visitors like us to discover Japan, and it's history, culture and landscape. The mix of city, and rural and mountain pilgrimage route, travelling by train, bus and on foot, even boat, was a great blend for the more active traveller. Our guide was excellent - knowledgeable, helpful and patient. I'm already looking through the Explore brochure for our next trip!

The tour is excellent. It covers a lot of the iconic sights, which means quite a bit of travelling, but the tour is well paced. We never felt rushed. Our guide, Isa, was fantastic. Her enthusiasm and passion for the country, the history and the people made the whole trip an amazing experience.

A great full-on trip with a first class leader who helped the group to bond and ensured we saw an awful lot and had a lot of fun. I now feel I have a real sense of what Japan is all about.

The itinerary was excellent giving us a view of different cities and also of a less populous area of northern Japan. The variety of things we saw was excellent.

Everything was amazing, some activities we shuffled around the accommodate rain and being able to go to a festival. There was a little bit of a miscommunication with flight Center telling us we could pay for the optional extras on the trip (and did not need to book them in advance). Tsu was an amazing tour guide and fit in really well with all nine of us Aussies.

Perhaps more testing than we were led to expect but a wonderful experience that we wouldn’t have missed. Full marks to Pepijn who was leader, mentor, guide and encouraging for us all. And for his tips and knowledge that allowed us to sample so much of Japan’s unbelievable food. But top marks also for the way he gave us context for all of the different elements of topography, history and culture. Walking parts of the Nakasendo Trail and later, the forests aroundDorogawa were especially memorable. We were also very well served during our visits t the major cities - Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka. We really appreciated being with a wonderful group of people- fellow adventurers all who made our tour so memorable. Thank you World Expeditions.