Private tour - Experience Kobe's Best Gems with a local host | 8 hours

6 Reviews | Kobe
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3-hours
2 Adults x $117.00
$234.00
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$234.00
Duration: 3 hours
Pickup included
4-hours
2 Adults x $125.00
$250.00
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$250.00
Duration: 4 hours
7-hours
2 Adults x $225.00
$450.00
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$450.00
Duration: 7 hours

Inclusions / Exclusions

  • Mobile ticket
  • Offered in: Japanese, English
  • Native English Speaking host
  • Walking experience (train or taxi available at additional cost)
  • 3hrs, 4hrs, or 7hrs with a local host
  • 100% Private and Personalized Experience
  • Food and drinks
  • Entry fees if applicable (including for guide) Sōrakuen ¥300pp Nunobiki Ropeway ¥1800pp
  • Transportation costs (including for guide)
  • Gratuities (if applicable)

Overview

A Great Mix of the Old & New of Kobe City... oh yeah! Spend time enjoying the city, (and not spending time getting lost in train stations or lost in translation)....another Oh yeah! You will have a Native English Speaking local guide. This is a personalized tour experience around your interests. A private tour - to maintain the unique energy of your group. Have any special interests or requests? We can add it into your Kobe experience...just let us know. Once you have booked your experience, we will be in touch with you within 48-hours to plan your personalized experience, and finalize our meeting point. For tours less than 48-hours, we will contact you sooner.

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* The pick-up meeting point will be determined after we have planned your personalized experience We will contact you within 48-hours of booking, to plan your personalized experience. If your tour experience is within the next 48-hours, we will contact you sooner. ;-) OR * If you would like Kobe Port pick-up, we do ... have a Shore Excursion Tour Experience. If this is not a "Kobe Port" tour experience and your tour was already purchased, please contact us to adjust this tour for a Kobe Port Pick-up. Read more ▼

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Meeting points

Kobe Station
3-chōme-1-1 Aioichō, Chuo Ward, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0025, Japan

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* The pick-up meeting point will be determined after we have planned your personalized experience. We will contact you within 48-hours of booking, to plan your personalized experience. If your tour experience is within the next 48-hours, we will contact you sooner.

End point

This activity ends back at the meeting point.

Itinerary

  • Minatogawa Shrine

    One of the two most popular shrines in Kobe City. It is a shrine, and for this one, it is more muted... without the famous orange/red every where. Very popular for many different important celebrations for locals.

    20 minutes

  • Meriken Park

    We will be passing through Harbor land and Meriken Park. This is a beautiful port area for both locals and travelers alike. In Meriken there are many eateries and shops to browse.

    1 hour

  • Kobe Motomachi Shopping Street

    The place where locals love to shop. Closer to Daimaru store, the shops are more so cosmopolitan, and going towards the Kobe Station side, you see a mix of new, and old (many generations owned stores).

    20 minutes

  • Chinatown (Nankinmachi)

    China Town nestled on the side of Motomachi. You will feel like you are in a totally different area from when you step into this street.

    20 minutes

  • Sorakuen Garden

    Prior Kobe City Mayors private residence. On the grounds, a European designed horse stable, beautiful Japanese gardens with hidden areas to explore, and an old boat house. Also transplanted here is a home from a foreign settler tradesman; and most days we are able to tour through this home.

    1 hour

  • Kobe Nunobiki Herb Gardens

    8-hour Experience is recommended if you would like Nunobiki Falls included. Nunobiki features the flowers that bloom in the season you visit. As you walk down the garden paths, you have views of the Kobe City Ocean/Sky line along the way. Fun ride up the mountain on a rope-way "gondola"; and on your ride up, you can see the Nunobiki waterfall, and other homes, foliage.... and not forgetting to mention, the skyline view of Kobe City. Once at the top, visit the essential oil museum and smell some samples, walk down the path with many smaller gardens placed in beautiful patterns, and visit a greenhouse with wonderful sight and sound of streaming river. If you want, you can also have lunch at the herb restaurant, (with courses of edible flowers). You can't go wrong here if you want to see all that Kobe City landscape has to offer, (mountains, oceans, and all thats in between).

    2 hours

  • Kobe

    Want to try KOBE BEEF? We can end your tour at a recommended restaurant, so you can take your time enjoying. If you prefer to have Kobe Beef for lunch during your experience, we can do that too.

    30 minutes

  • Suma Beach

    Seasonal - during Summer and early Fall months. Although quiet on many of the months of the year, the summer gets fun with the pop up restaurants with music playing, stroll some through the warm waters, and people watch as some are perfecting their selfies.

    1 hour

  • Kobe

    What OTHER INTERESTS did you have in mind? Sake Tasting? We can either go to a local brewery museum, or go to a popular sake bar. Your choice, just let us know.

    1 hour

  • Ikuta Shrine

    One of two most popular shrines in Kobe City. Vibrant colors, old history, and getting to this shrine is fun because you go through the entertainment part of Kobe.

    15 minutes

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Additional Info

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Free Cancellation

June 18100% refund
June 19No refund

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

  • For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
  • If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
  • Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
  • Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
  • This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.
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The best of Kobe

Published on Mar, 2025

We had a great time with Michelle! She was so sweet and full of information. We learned alot about Kobe's past and present. The Kobe beef restaurant she took us to was top notch! The best beef we've had! Thanks Michelle and we'll definitely recommend her to anyone we know who will be visiting Kobe.

Enjoyable and great experience

Published on Jan, 2025

We had a great time for this tour. Our guide Michelle was excellent, she was very good at planning and adjusting the itinerary according to our interests. She had lots of experience when arranging for one of our guests with mobility and accessibility challenges. She recommended and helped us to rent motorized wheelchair at the Kobe Herbs Gardens for strolling down the slopes, it was so much easier than using our manual wheelchair to stop start on the downslope course. She also knows what children would be interested and like to see. Michelle even assisted to call up restaurants in last minute to arrange for sake tasting, considering it was a busy day of New Year’s Eve party occasion. Highly recommended.

Kobe Experience

Published on Oct, 2024

Michelle was a great guide and took me all over in Kobe giving me an experience that would be very hard to coke by on my own. Highly recommend anyone not familiar with Kobe taking on this experience.

Kobe Experience

Published on Oct, 2024

Michelle was a great guide and took me all over in Kobe giving me an experience that would be very hard to coke by on my own. Highly recommend anyone not familiar with Kobe taking on this experience.

Kobe surprised us with the variety.

Published on Nov, 2023

Kobe had such a variety of vibe throughout the city…it was unexpected. Our guide Michelle answered all our questions, had a great sense of humor, and it was obvious she loves Kobe.

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