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Tour Reviews
Ian
May 2023
Lots of fascinating and beautiful places, with a good mixture of group activities and free time. Accommodation was nice, including unique experiences of staying in t...
Trusted Customer
Apr 2023
Excellent tour, tour guide extremely knowledgeable. A good balance of free time included
Jane
Apr 2023
A comprehensive tour around the main cities of Japan in two weeks. According to my phone I walked 61 miles during the trip! and covered over 300 miles on public tran...
Max
Apr 2023
Simply wonderful in every respect. The tour leader David was brilliant, he went well beyond what I would expect of a guide and took enormous pride in showing us some...
Trusted Customer
Apr 2023
I loved being in Japan for the cherry blossom season! I wouldn't want to go at any other time. I loved the snow monkeys and Hiroshima and Miyajima Island the most. ...
Nigel
Apr 2023
This was a super trip. Japan is much more than the sights. It’s the experience of being there, travelling there and eating there. The accommodations were well loc...
Trusted Customer
Apr 2023
This was my 17th Explore holiday and the only one I haven't scored 5 stars because my transfer took me to the wrong hotel - the driver didn't speak English so didn't...
Trusted Customer
Apr 2023
The choice of programmed tours and free time suited me. The luggage forwarding service worked well and avoided taking larger bags onto the many trains and connecti...
Trusted Customer
Apr 2023
An excellent trip with numerous experiences and highlights. The Cherry blossom, the temples and castles, zipping around on the 'bullet train', and our overnight stay...
Trusted Customer
Apr 2023
Fast paced snapshot tour of the best of Japan, all the local food we could imagine, temples, snow monkeys, travel by public transport especially bento on the bullet ...
Trusted Customer
Apr 2023
Good accommodation with one exception. Pedro was an excellent guide but I could have done with more cultural information. The free-time in Takayama of 5 hours was f...
Betty
Apr 2023
Touring by public transport gave me the sense of living like a local. Grateful to our guide for his organisation on this front which have me confidence to continue t...
Robert
Apr 2023
We feel more time should have been allowed especially as we were using trains and public transport, often changing trains instead of taking a direct route, particula...
Christopher
Apr 2023
David Lam helped in making the holiday excellent by introducing us to wide range of Japanese food and on free days offering to show us more of of where we were stayi...
Anne
Apr 2023
Seeing the snow monkeys in the forest. Also, having Ken as a tour leade...
Anne
Apr 2023
We had many highlights. Too many to pick out and our representative Dave Lam was amazing. Best Explore Rep we have had. If we were to say favourites it would be Mats...
Trusted Customer
Apr 2023
All the places visited were interesting. However, the trip was a bit shambolic to start with, the guide insisting on using WhatsApp instead of briefing us. After the...
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