Yuta our guide made this a wonderful trip. Despite a snow blizzard at one point & 4 degrees C we loved it. The info was all very interesting, the Zen introduction & tea ceremony in the temple & the amazing Kukaki Ji golden temple. Bikes were good & Yuta did everything to make it a memorable trip

We had a great time on the e-bikes. Awesome tour. Learned a lot. Michael was amazing. He was east to spend the day with. He gave just the right amount of information regarding the culture there. Highly recommend!

This was an incredible e-bike tour. Yuta was our local guide and he was truly amazing at sharing history, teaching us helpful customs, and giving us recommendations for good local food/activities. There were 7 total guests in our group, and we were all safe throughout the tour. It was an incredible experience getting to bicycle out to a rural area to experience a matcha ceremony (our group elected to do this extra ceremony) at Toujiin Temple, where there were hardly any other tourists. We then biked to Otagi Nenbutsu-ji Temple and got to hear and see how the 1,200 disciple statues of Buddha came about. Appreciated the inclusive welcome nature of this temple. And we ended at the bamboo forest and elected to eat delicious snacks after before returning to the shop. The Panasonic e-bikes are manageable weight-wise and very responsive, so fortunately it didn’t feel like a highly strenuous workout. I really liked the e-bikes as well, as this was my first time using one. I felt intimidated at the idea of bicycling in Kyoto but was relieved to see that drivers are very patient and experienced in avoiding bicyclists. And Yuta was awesome at guiding us to keep us all safe. Overall this was a very meaningful experience that we’re grateful for.

Lot's of fun. Wonderful route! Beautiful scenery! I was lucky--the weather was perfect--not too warm or cold. I want to mention that the bike was a lot of fun to ride! I've done other e-bike tours and I liked this bike a lot--definitely more than some others. I don't have corrections for this tour but I would suggest a tour focusing on gorgeous architecture and home/building design. I was so often wanting to stop and admire things. Kyoto really is very beautiful.

Yuta was our guide and he was great. It was sunny when we started but we knew sprinkling of rain was coming. When the weather continued to worsen Yuta had the insight to offer us a different tour where we could warm up at several tea houses near a temple and near a shrine. He also provided ponchos and gloves to somewhat help from the weather. Even despite the cold and wet weather, it was totally worth the experiences and learning of the Shinto and Buddhism history in Japan.

Michael's love for cycling and history shone through on this tour and it was an absolute delight to be a part of. We wouldn't hesitate to recommend this experience to anyone.

This was our second bike tour with Noru. Our guide Henry was very entertaining and knowledgable. The tour was a beautiful excursion around the outskirts of Kyoto filled with interesting facts and history by Henry. Highly recommend this tour if you want to spend more time on a bike.

Wonderful urban cycling through parts of Kyoto culminating at the bamboo forest! Ebikes were easy to operate and the route was appropriate for anyone comfortable on a bicycle. Pace was very enjoyable as was the scenery. Stopped at two interesting and diverse temples with time to tour the grounds after a brief explanation from our local guide Sean who was fantastic. The bike shop was easy to find and staff very friendly.

We loved our tour with Yuta! We learned a ton, had fun biking, and he made sure we were comfortable and saw some of the less crowded temples, shrines, and sites. It was nice to see the major tourist attractions like the bamboo forest while mixing in quiet and peaceful spots that are more accessible by bike. Would also recommend this tour to anyone who is overwhelmed with seeing the temples and shrines in Kyoto—no need to choose or create your own itinerary!

It was an incredible journey, filled with breathtaking views—truly the best tour of Kyoto! Riding bikes was surprisingly easy, and we didn’t feel tired at all.

Our guide Henry was incredibly knowledgeable and the route we took showed us a side of Kyoto area that we never would have seen otherwise. Fantastic stops at temples. We really appreciated all the Japanese history we learned from Henry, & his passion for the culture is palpable & contagious. Highly highly recommend this, such a great tour. So worth every penny and possibly our favorite thing we’ve done on our trip to Japan so far. We wish there was a Henry tour in every place we are going!

This was a really informative and fun bike tour. Yuta was an excellent guide - very knowledgeable and a great communicator. The zen shrine and garden was a highlight. We went to some lovely locations with not many tourists, as well as the bamboo forest, which was easily the most busy of the locations. For those unsure about doing this tour, the e-bikes were really good and made the hills very manageable even though it has been more than a year since I rode a bike regularly.

The secret Kyoto cycling tour with Mike was magical and one of the highlights of our trip to Japan. We visited beautiful temples, gardens, a geisha neighborhood and tea house which were quiet and not over run with tourists (in sharp contrast to our previous day’s sightseeing). Mike was knowledgeable, engaging, fun and a gifted communicator and gave us excellent insights into Japanese symbolism, culture and etiquette. If you only do one tour, make this the one!

This was excellent. One of the highlights of our trip to Japan. So good in fact that we did both this tour and the longer one hidden Kyoto tour. We had Henry as a guide and he was fantastic. He has lived in Japan for years and had a good mix of culture, anecdotes, stops and cycling. Highlights were the lake stop and the cycling round the countryside. We booked this to see the bamboo groves but it was so busy and touristy that many of the other things we saw in the tour were better. Cannot recommend this highly enough. The e-bikes make it so easy that it would be good even for nervous cyclists. Cycling in the city in Japan is far less stressful than cycling in the city at home!

Our guide, Henry was the best guide we have had in Japan. He clearly loved Kyoto and shared in a fun memorable way. I have new respect for the shrines and temples and a better understanding of Japanese solitude. And the bamboo forest was beautiful too!