Links to any Tokyo to Tokyo trip reports?

[RetiredandTravel]

42 minutes ago, Ceilknits said:

We are scheduled Tokyo (originally Hong Kong) to Bangkok, Oct 2023..Anyone else?

 

Barbara

 

 

 

Check the roll call section maybe more folks on your cruise there

[Carol From California]

We are booked Tokyo to Tokyo April 11, 2023. Our cruise includes a 3-night pre-cruise stay with some tours. The hotel Regent puts us up at is the Tokyo Hilton. We booked all our excursions with Regent except for the full day that we have in Kyoto. We booked a guide with Tours by Locals. This way we will be able to see more places than Regent offers on their tours, and we also will be taking the bullet train (one way, back to the ship). If anyone wants the name of our guide let me know. 

 

We originally booked this cruise in 2018 for a 2021 sailing. Obviously that one was cancelled so we moved the booking to 2023. We've waited a long time to do this cruise and are looking forward to it.

Edited January 2, 2023 by Carol From California

[carolina cruisin]

1 hour ago, Carol From California said:

We are booked Tokyo to Tokyo April 11, 2023. Our cruise includes a 3-night pre-cruise stay with some tours. The hotel Regent puts us up at is the Tokyo Hilton. We booked all our excursions with Regent except for the full day that we have in Kyoto. We booked a guide with Tours by Locals. This way we will be able to see more places than Regent offers on their tours, and we also will be taking the bullet train (one way, back to the ship). If anyone wants the name of our guide let me know. 

 

We originally booked this cruise in 2018 for a 2021 sailing. Obviously that one was cancelled so we moved the booking to 2023. We've waited a long time to do this cruise and are looking forward to it.

We will be taking this cruise as a BTB in 2024.  Would be interested in hearing of your travels and information re your tour/guide

 

tks

[Carol From California]

41 minutes ago, carolina cruisin said:

We will be taking this cruise as a BTB in 2024.  Would be interested in hearing of your travels and information re your tour/guide

 

tks

We booked this tour in April, 2022 for April, 2023. There are four of us doing the tour. We booked with Ken S. At Tours by Locals. You can find him on the website. He was recommended to me by someone who did the same tour with him a few years ago. He has excellent reviews. Here is our itinerary:

Meet at the cruise ship terminal in Kobe at 6:30 - via train or taxis - Sannomiya JR train station ( 7:00 ) - via JR conventional train - Kyoto station ( 8:00 ) - taxis - Golden pavilion ( 8:45 to 9:30 ) - taxis - Tenryuji temple ( 10:00 to 10:30 ) - Bamboo path ( 10:30 to 11:00 ) - lunch ( 11:00 to 11:45 ) - taxis - Kiyomizudera temple ( 12:45 to 13: 30 ) - taxis - Fushimi-inari shrine ( 14:00 to 14:30 ) - taxis - Kyoto station ( 15:00 ) - bullet train - Shinkobe station ( 15:45 )- taxis - cruise ship terminal ( 16:00 to 16:30 ). 

 

As you can see, we are starting very early so we can include these 5 main sites and taking taxies between them. And we will take the bullet train coming back.  
 

[carolina cruisin]

11 hours ago, Carol From California said:

We booked this tour in April, 2022 for April, 2023. There are four of us doing the tour. We booked with Ken S. At Tours by Locals. You can find him on the website. He was recommended to me by someone who did the same tour with him a few years ago. He has excellent reviews. Here is our itinerary:

Meet at the cruise ship terminal in Kobe at 6:30 - via train or taxis - Sannomiya JR train station ( 7:00 ) - via JR conventional train - Kyoto station ( 8:00 ) - taxis - Golden pavilion ( 8:45 to 9:30 ) - taxis - Tenryuji temple ( 10:00 to 10:30 ) - Bamboo path ( 10:30 to 11:00 ) - lunch ( 11:00 to 11:45 ) - taxis - Kiyomizudera temple ( 12:45 to 13: 30 ) - taxis - Fushimi-inari shrine ( 14:00 to 14:30 ) - taxis - Kyoto station ( 15:00 ) - bullet train - Shinkobe station ( 15:45 )- taxis - cruise ship terminal ( 16:00 to 16:30 ). 

 

As you can see, we are starting very early so we can include these 5 main sites and taking taxies between them. And we will take the bullet train coming back.  
 

Really appreciate the information.  Looking forward to hearing how your trip and tour(s) go.  Our current schedule has in port for a day and a half or so.  Looks like you will be hitting all of the top spots.  Good luck.  Happy New Year.

 

 

[Carol From California]

3 hours ago, carolina cruisin said:

Really appreciate the information.  Looking forward to hearing how your trip and tour(s) go.  Our current schedule has in port for a day and a half or so.  Looks like you will be hitting all of the top spots.  Good luck.  Happy New Year.

 

 

We have half day in port plus a full day. We booked the tour on the full day obviously and we are starting really early in the morning. The Regent offerings for Kyoto are basically a bus ride back and forth and a visit to two of the sites. Happy New Year!

[carolina cruisin]

19 hours ago, Carol From California said:

We booked this tour in April, 2022 for April, 2023. There are four of us doing the tour. We booked with Ken S. At Tours by Locals. You can find him on the website. He was recommended to me by someone who did the same tour with him a few years ago. He has excellent reviews. Here is our itinerary:

Meet at the cruise ship terminal in Kobe at 6:30 - via train or taxis - Sannomiya JR train station ( 7:00 ) - via JR conventional train - Kyoto station ( 8:00 ) - taxis - Golden pavilion ( 8:45 to 9:30 ) - taxis - Tenryuji temple ( 10:00 to 10:30 ) - Bamboo path ( 10:30 to 11:00 ) - lunch ( 11:00 to 11:45 ) - taxis - Kiyomizudera temple ( 12:45 to 13: 30 ) - taxis - Fushimi-inari shrine ( 14:00 to 14:30 ) - taxis - Kyoto station ( 15:00 ) - bullet train - Shinkobe station ( 15:45 )- taxis - cruise ship terminal ( 16:00 to 16:30 ). 

 

As you can see, we are starting very early so we can include these 5 main sites and taking taxies between them. And we will take the bullet train coming back.  
 

Thanks.  Am sure you will have a great tour.

[Cyberchomp]

I am considering using Ken S. from Tours By Locals, as the previous poster is doing, for my cruise on Explorer on the cruise following Carol's.  It would be a rented taxi-van - pricey, but I'm looking for guests on the April 25 voyage who might be interested; this would drive down the cost of hiring the taxi.  If you're on that particular cruise (Yokohama-Vancouver) and were shut out of the ship's tours to Kyoto, feel free to respond to this post and we'll find a way to touch bases.