Japan Golden Route with Hiroshima 2025

Customer Reviews

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  Nandana

  · April 22nd, 2025
  Total tour was organized really well. All the hotels were really nice and everyday breakfast was included. Some lunches and dinner were also included. We traveled by comfortable coach with an experienced driver. Our tour guide, Osman, was very friendly and explained the history very well. It was a fantastic tour and explored major attractions. We highly recommend this tour for anyone.
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  Tomato Travel commented on this review

  Hi Nandana, thank you for your positive feedback. We are very happy to hear that you enjoyed our adventure. It's great to know how Osman has enhanced your tour experienced as well. We hope to see you again soon on your next adventure!
  Trip date: April 2025
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  Brenda

  · April 22nd, 2025
  Hotels and hotel meals were very good. Time to eat lunch was always very short and rushed. We missed so much information from Osmond by earphones not being provided until the last day. He was very helpful but needed to let people know the importance of staying together or letting him know if they left the group. He didn’t provide his cell number until day 3. Printed material of simple Japanese words would have been helpful. Other tours provided some sort of gift from travel company. Communication with company was punctual. Bus was comfortable and driver was good and safe. We had 24 in our group and it would have difficult had there been more.
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  Trip date: April 2025
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  Rajashree

  · April 18th, 2025
  Excellent experience! Tour guide Osman was very knowledgeable, friendly and took good care of us.!
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  Tomato Travel commented on this review

  Hi Rajashree, thank you so much for your positive feedback. We are happy to here that you enjoyed the tour and our tour guide Osman made your tour become more meaningful. We hope to see you again on our future tour. Once again thank you for travelling... Show more
  Trip date: April 2025
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  margaret

  · April 15th, 2025
  This tour covers the main cities and highlights there and is not rushed. Our guide, Usman was fantastic and gave us the history and important background to each place we visited. He was very helpful. Great accomodation and food. A very comfortable touring bus as well.
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  Tomato Travel commented on this review

  Hi Margaret, thank you so much for your 5-stars review. We're especially delighted to hear your positive comments about our tour guide Osman - he is a real asset to our team. We're also glad that you enjoyed the comfortable pace. the delicious food and... Show more
  
  Trip date: April 2025
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  Uwe

  · April 9th, 2025
  The tour itself was good, but it would have been nice if we would have had a greeting at the beginning of the tour. All we had was a time and a place to meet and off we went. Also at the end should be the last dinner together since we all grew together as a group. The hot pot dinner should have been explained to us, not everyone knew what to do and it ended up in a chaos. Not being easy on us or the staff at the restaurant. Since we booked an English speaking tour we expected a little bit better English, sometimes we didn’t know what Maza tried to explain. Don’t get me wrong he tried his best.
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  Tomato Travel commented on this review

  Hi Uwe, Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback on the tour. We're glad to hear you enjoyed most of the experience. We also appreciate your specific points regarding the initial greeting and the hot pot dinner. We will certainly share... Show more
  Trip date: March 2025
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  Terry

  · March 22nd, 2025
  Yumi was wonderful! Went over and above for each and everyone of us! We saw all the sites we wanted to see and more! Excellent!
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  Trip date: March 2025
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  David

  · March 18th, 2025
  Thoroughly enjoyed the tour. We had a really nice and diverse group of 14 people - a manageable size group with lots of room on the bus. I chose the Japan Golden Route with Hiroshima because it took me to places I wanted to see- Himeji Castle, the floating torii gate, Kyoto. Our guide Aki was friendly and knowledgeable. He provided assistance when I needed it to sort out an issue with the hotels. He also personally took me to an area of Kyoto station that I wanted see so that I wouldn't get lost. The itinerary changed on days 7 and 8 due to weather conditions but this was understandable. Maybe there could be an alternate activity to the lake cruise if the weather is inclement. Do wish we had a list of our fellow travellers' names and countries of origin at the start to make it easier to remember names and get acquainted. The hotels were fine from my perspective. Hotel It in Osaka was close to the Osaka Metro station for my evening trip to Dotonbori. Again Aki, our guide, showed the group how to get to the station and how to purchase tickets. The hotel in Kyoto did not have an onsite dinner option but I opted for the convenience store across the street as I did not want much to eat. There was a bit of a hike for taking out luggage to the hotel from the main road. The Kyoto hotel was close to our destination the next day which saved time. My first time to Japan and this trip was very good introduction. Plenty of time in each place. Did not feel rushed which is important.
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  Trip date: February 2025
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  Everett

  · December 4th, 2024
  I loved the cultural aspect of the tour. Tai, orur guide, was very patient and caring. Good group dynamics.
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  Trip date: November 2024
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  PAUL

  · December 2nd, 2024
  A lot of time spent in the van traveling back and forth. For some elderly people, some of the walking could be a problem. We got lucky, our group consisted of six tourist, anymore than that in a group would be uncomfortable. The sites were beautiful, the tour guide was good and the driver excellent. Just as any tour, I believe destinations could have been planned better. There were places that I would have liked to stay longer and some not visit at all. With that said, others will disagree. One has to remember it is only a taste of Japan with the purpose of drawing one back to visit what fits their personality. I was surprised how clean and safe all the cities are. A beautiful country and people.
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  Trip date: November 2024
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  Krissy

  · October 28th, 2024
  Tour guide was lovely, but really disorganised at times. Her English was average which meant in a big group (nearly 40 people) messaging needed to be clear and direct - she couldn't manage this. At one point she 'lost' the tour bus after a dinner (which led to a lot of bewildered laughing in the group but also an extraordinarily long day) and also left participants behind at another venue which she only realised when another participant pointed it out. I would have liked more information about landmarks we were passing etc. The itinerary is also a little flawed with travel back to osaka one afternoon, only to have to drive back again the following morning to the destination we just left. Hotels were ok, some very average and others better. Overall we enjoyed Japan but have come back pretty exhausted due to the rushed nature of the trip. We had a good group of people which helped a lot given the size of the group.
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  Trip date: October 2024