Experience Fukuoka
Beyond the Guidebooks

Personne très sympathique connaissant très bien sa ville. A su nous régaler d'anecdotes personnelles sur le pays et la culture. A very friendly person who knows his city very well. He was able to entertain us with personal anecdotes about the country and its culture.

He was very friendly, pro-active, has a lot of knowledge, flexible and funny

Yu was great and showed me restaurants that I never would've known about without him. I'm going back to two of them everyday for the rest of the holiday now. Yu was great to talk to and hang out with. Had a fantastic time

Guide Yu was kind and humorous. And he explained FUKUOKA easily.

We made a last-minute request for a food tour in Fukuoka in the evening and it was our good fortune that Bruce was available to take us for a tour the next afternoon. The tour was a great introduction to the food culture of the city. While the yatai tour is an evening experience, he was able to send us to one of his favourite yatai stalls where Mariko-san took care of us, introducing us to local seafood tempura.

We had a wonderful day exploring Fukuoka. Bruce showed us places nearby to our hotel. We could ask questions and learn about history, culture. Bruce showed us good places to eat. After an authentic Japanese lunch we got on the train n visited a park. Walking through the hundreds of cherry blossom trees was like being in a fairytale…just magical. I will never forget my first day in Japan. A truely amazing experience.

This was an excellent experience. I had the great honor of being guided by Bruce who has been living in Fukuoka for more than 20 years and has made a significant impact on the modern Yatai food scene. He was very professional and fun. He explained and showed me the true essence of Fukuoka which helped me further understand its local culture. I am a big history and culture person, so I had an absolutely stellar time. Highly recommend this tour and please ask for Bruce if you are interested in the Yatai!

Bruce knows Fukuoka very well. We took a walk in Ohori Park and the ruins of a hilltop castle with a beautiful view. We had a lunch of mentaiko pasta together. I recommend that Bruce can be your guide in Fukuoka.

Taiyo was a wonderful guide, and we thoroughly enjoyed our time with him. His local knowledge of Fukuoka was excellent.

It was so great to have a one-on-one experience. Well worth the money. Thanks Taiyo.

Taiyo gave me the best food tour experience in Fukuoka :)

He is a responsible and nice person to bring me to a specific place in Fukuoka, and bring me back to meeting point. I would feel peaceful and comfortable during the trip. He also has a good interpretation to explain the location point’s history and deeper understanding. I learned a lot from him. He never gives up to motivate myself to explore the good view in Japan. Finally, I want to thanks his honesty and true during the trip. He shared his background and story about his life. I think it is a valuable opportunity to let me know about Japan from a local person. His background enriches his mind to open my heart to trust him, which I could share more about my life and Hong Kong situations with him. He seems like a life mentor in Japan, which let me know how could I use the experience in the tour after back in Hong Kong. I would like to have him for second time in Japan with my friends if he is available also. Please let him know I am really enjoyed the trip, even I am few depressed from my local news during the trip. However, he is trying to use a lot of things to let me recovering. Wishing him to have a beautiful life soon. Best wishes, TSOI Tsz Fung Keith

Our guide, Ai, helped us even before we got to the tour! She contacted us on WhatsApp, and we were able to ask for recommendations on Onsens, restaurants, and whiskey bars in the area. We were able to customize the tour with her help, and had a great day walking around temples, shrines, and Ohori Park. Ai has amazing taste in food, and took us to an amazing spot for a Teishoku style lunch. She also suggested an amazing sushi restaurant, and made us a reservation for made us a reservation reservation for a omakase dinner! If you like food, Ai is definitely your tour guide.

Ai helped us even before the tour started! She contacted us on WhatsApp, and we were able to ask her for recommendations on Onsens, restaurants, and bars in the area. She was also gracious enough to make us a omakase dinner reservation at a EXCELLENT sushi restaurant. If you love good food, she's the tour guide to have.

Ai went above and beyond to be sure that we were comfortable throughout our tour, that we saw everything we requested, and she took great photos of us during our experiences.

Great experience. Ai Kim is very responsive and professional. We went to some great spots. Good conversations. Highly recommended! Great value!

Eli was friendly and genuine. She showed us great spots so we got the flavor of Fukuoka. She tailored the itinerary very well to our tastes and abilities. She showed flexibility to make revisions as needed. We ate at a local fish market restaurant, ate delicious pastries, saw shrines and learned their history, learned about local customs and ceremonies and wandered through all sorts of shopping areas. Highly recommend this tour especially if your time is limited in Fukuoka.

Our Private Tour with Eli was excellent. From the moment we met in our hotel lobby she made us feel comfortable and confident we would have a wonderful experience. We had a mostly walking tour and visited several historic sites, local shopping areas and beautiful landscaped parks in Fukuoka.

We had an enjoyable and memorable tour experience with Eli. Soon after I first booked our tour, Eli contacted me by email and provided a brief itinerary of a mostly walking tour to popular historic and scenic sights around Fukuoka. I could tell right away she was personable and her communication skills were excellent. She let me know that we could make adjustments anytime, including during our tour. Eli met us promptly in our hotel lobby and my initial impression of her communication skills were confirmed. Right away she made us feel comfortable and our tour was a wonderful experience with a personable and knowledgeable local tour guide.

Eli was a great guide, she was very helpful, had lots of information, she was very nice, friendly, great English, I have experienced other tours in the past and this was my favorite, definitely felt like a local and like going out with a friend, was lovely and I fully recommend!!!!! I had an amazing time, she was also very flexible and asked if we liked the itinerary she created, amazing really!! so so happy for this experience!!

She had knowledge of a range of topics, a good sense of humour, and was very flexible.

Mickey gave us a good tour of Hakate Old Town where we saw shrines and temples. Her English was good and she was informative and entertaining. If was a good introduction to Fukuoka.

Mickey shared an off the beaten track experience with me, which included quiet gardens and temples. One temple showcased a huge wooden buddha, and she walked me through rituals and the proper way to light candles and incense. The final stop was a garden with the opportunity to have a Japanese sweet and try a bowl of traditional matcha Japanese tea. At the station before we said goodbye, she helped me buy a train ticket for an upcoming journey and gave me several restaurant recommendations. I really enjoyed my time with Mickey.

We had the best day with Mickey in Fukuoka.

Sumire had a lot of interesting stories to tell not just about Fukuoka city & the places we went to, but also about herself. It was really nice getting to know her as an individual & we had good conversation over the course of the 3 hours we spent together. She was really genuine & sincere in getting to know me & sharing her recommendations around the city.

We had an excellent tour. Our day with Sumire was informative, easy, and most of all, fun. Sumire clearly knows and loves Fukuoka!

Sumire was a terrific guide. Our day with her was informative, easy, and, most of all, fun. She knows and loves Fukuoka, and it shows!

She showed us floats for the festival and ate sweet beans with us

Thank you very much for kind & specialized explanation for Fukuoka.

Mike chose sights off the beaten path and gave us a very interesting look into Fukuokan culture.

Mike is pleasant and knows a lot about Hakata. He showed us around sites that are interesting and was able to cover also the historical and cultural aspects of the different places and traditions.

Mike was very personable. Even though it rained Mike continued to make sure we had a wonderful experience.

It was a bit difficult to find the guide as we were supposed to meet at the huge Hakata station. But we managed and the guided tour through the streets of Fukuoka was marked by professional competence and good places outside the usual tourist spots. The guide could tell us a lot about the places we visited and was very pleasant company. A really good tour that can definitely be recommended.

The trip through the streets of Fukuoka and secret free space was exactly what we had been looking for. We were led around to different places that were not crowded with tourists and found places we would never have found on our own. A really rewarding and complete trip, with a pleasant and competent guide. Luis was the perfect guide.

Luis was a great guide, very friendly and informative. The weather was nice so we took a car for a trip to the coast.

Luis was an excellent guide and took us to some special spots in Fukuoka. Really appreciated his personal recommendations to help us plan the rest of our stay.

Shino is a native and was able to share many things about Fukuoka that were very interesting to our family. Additionally she was very gracious and patient with our group. Highly recommended.

We are warm, courteous, considerate, and provide detailed travel and food information, leaving you with beautiful memories of Fukuoka.

We had only a few hours in Fukuoka so arranged a private tour with Shino. What a great decision!! We met at the train station and went directly to the Reclining Buddha which was our priority. And it was impressive. Then we visited the Tocho-ji Temple with the amazing wooden Buddha, walked through Hakata old town and Canal City culminating in a delicious ramen lunch. Shino is the best guide, her English is wonderful and her knowledge of Fukuoka and Japan in general is impressive. Thank you Shino for a truly beautiful day.

It's good have her to accompany with us in our half day trip. She gave us a memorable experience in our trip. She is professional and caring. We would like to meet her again in our next trip back to Fukuoka. Thank you so much.

Mark is extremely knowledgeable about the city! He also recommended a few restaurants for us to try.

Our tour guide, is friendly, professional and knowledgeable. He showed and brought us to places that you don’t usually find them in other guide books. Highly recommend his service.

Learning about Fukuoka through the excellent commentary of our guide, Mark Potter; was the tour highlight. He was marvelous.

After a successful tour in Nagasaki, I decided to try again in Fukuoka — a great decision! Mark is a long time resident and he walked me around Fukuoka with such enthusiasm and dedication that I am now in love with this beautiful and rich city. But there is more to this tour than getting to see a city, there’s spending the day exchanging ideas and stories about life and art and history with a knowledgeable and friendly guide. Thank you very much Mark for a wonderful day in Fukuoka!

We had an excellent tour. We started with a temple and a shrine and learned more about Fukuoka’s history. Then Ayumi took us to a handicraft museum and weaving demonstrations and to local shops since I am very interested in textiles.

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Having Mone tell me what the Japanese sweets were so I could make a more intelligent choice from the huge array of Japanese sweets. Given that I use a walker and that it was a rainy day, Mone was able to accommodate that in our planning. I didn't really want to go to Museums and galleries I was able to share lunch and chat for quite a while about Japan and hear from Mone about her life here. Not what most people want but it suited me very well indeed.