Kamakura Private Tour

Design your own tour of Kamakura with an English-speaking licensed tour guide.  Give us information on what kind of activities or what type of food you would like to experience.  If you do not have much information about places to see, we can certainly give you some first-hand knowledge and arrange the places according to your interests. 

Kamakura 1 Day Tour (Sample)

Kamakura, the first shogunate esablished in 1192 and continued until 1333, is a popular day trip desination from Tokyo.  With many temples scattered around the town, it is a little too big to cover on foot, but there is a nice network of buses that goes to the popular sites.  However, if budget allows, it is easier to go around Kamakura by chartering a taxi for the day. 

Arrive in the northern part of Kamakura, where you will find abundant natural greenery.  Visit the first Zen temple built in  in Kamakura, and the oldest Zen training monastery in Japan.  (On Fridays and Saturdays from 5 pm, you can sit in Zen meditation at the temple)   

Move to an important shrine, dedicated to the patron god of Minamoto clan, the shogunate famlily.   The shrine attracts million of visiors on New Year's and is a popular place for traditional weddings.

Visit the simbol of Kamakura, the great buddha, which is 11.312 meters high and made with 121 tons of copper.  The huge wooden hall that housed the statue was washed away by a tsunami, and was never reconstructed, which left the statue in open-air.

Move to the eastern part of Kamakura, an off the beaten tourist track worth visiting.  You will find narrow paths cut through solid rocks.  These paths were the only way to go in and out of Kamakura, so it was a way to protecet the town from outsiders.

Lastly, visit a very tranquil Zen temple with a beautiful bamboo garden.  Enjoy green tea served at the temple.  

Price

 

                                                                                           (price per group)

	1 person	2~3 persons	4~6 persons	7persons           and more
6 hours	43,000 yen	51,000 yen	59,000 yen	Please contact us for the price
8 hours	52,500 yen	63,000 yen	73,500 yen

                                                                     (5% consumption tax is included)

Public transportation within Kamakura and entrance fees for temples, shrines, museums are included.  Lunch is not included because we would like you to be able to choose the type of food according to how you feel that day.  Extra charges for experiencing traditional cultural activities may be added depending on what you choose to do.

Train fee from Tokyo to Kamakura

From JRTokyo station to JRKitakamakura station, the roundtrip train fee for green car (first class seats) will be 3,060 yen / person

Taxi

To charter a taxi for 5 hours within Kamakura (maximum 4 persons including your tour guide) will cost 27,000 yen.

Payment 

Please pay by credit card.  You will receive an E-mail with an URL where you can make the payment online. The page is protected by Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology to ensure the safety of your credit card information.  We accept Visa, Master Card, American Express, Diners, and JCB.

Request for a Kamakura Private Tour

To request for a Kyoto Private Tour, contact us by E-mail (commentsmtj@michitravel.com) or call us (03-5213-5040). Please tell us the following information:

1) your name 

2) number of persons in the group 

3) date of Kamakura Tour 

4) starting time and length of tour 

5) meeting place 

6) places you would like to visit (or write "recommended travel" if you would like us to plan your day) 

7) interests 

8) lunch requests

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