Maya

City of Kyoto Visitors Host

Language(s)	:	English
Expertise	:	Traditional industries
Fee	:	28,000 JPY / day (8hours) 15,000 JPY / half a day (4hours)
Home Page	:	https://www.facebook.com/doortokyoto2018

I love living in Kyoto and enjoy sharing local experiences, culture and places "off the beaten track" with visitors.

I've been in Mexico and Great Britain when I was a student. Also I traveled more than 40 times(19 countries).
As an avid traveler I love meeting people from around the world.

The characteristic of my guiding is use of ''Original materials''.
Guiding not only with words but also with Handmade materials including old maps of Kyoto, ancient writings and Japanese wood rock print help you enjoy Kyoto with its deep history and background.

My interests vary from classics to hipster, Chashitsu (tea house) to modern coffee shops, Japanese rice wine to craft beer and Zen meditation to outdoor such as Mt. Kurama hike.

I'm also licensed in Tea ceremony and Japanese flower arrangement. Besides working as a licences guide at KVH, I work in the tea ceremony workshop for foreign visitors.

I can give you the best itinerary according to your schedule, budget and requests.
Please feel free to ask me.
I look forward to meeting you and showing you around!

[Note]
The fee includes...
・my guiding・consulting・planing the original and unique itinerary just for you・arrangement fee
(reservations or researches that you need in Kyoto).

Performance

Guide's Calendar

Reviews

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Marc & Sylvie
2018-05-17
Excellent guide.
Passionate and knows a lot about Kyoto area, Japanese culture and religion. Very good communication in English. Very prepared and organized, making the tour content easy to visualize and remember. Very attentive and responsive to your needs. We would not hesitate to recommend her tour guide services.

Bernd und Karin Harzbecker
2018-04-27
Mayako is a very friendly woman with a lot of ideas to visit Kyoto. We have had two wonderful unforgettable days with her. The tour was organized very good. We can prefer to choose Mayako.

Dagmar and Hajo
2018-04-19
Mayako made a fantastic Job! She did so much work in preparing our two days tour. Her english is perfect and she took us to the beautifulliest places in kyoto. Everything was planned perfectly.
We can recommend her without any restriction!!!
Dagmar and Hajo

Kate
2017-04-20
We visited Kyoto for a few days in April, having a fantastic guide like Maya for one afternoon really enhanced our holiday. She was extremely knowledgable and showed us all the highlights. I would highly recommend Maya as a guide, she went out of her way to be helpful and we couldn't have asked for a better guide!

Laura and Jacob
2017-03-22
Mayako-san is the best! We contacted her because we were looking for an interpreter to help us make arrangements and contact venues for our wedding in Kyoto.

We found that she was incredibly helpful and an absolute pleasure to work with. She was also prompt, very professional, intimately knowledgeable about the city, and thorough in her responses. She speaks/writes excellent English. She also has a great sense of humor and seems like the kind of person that just makes you feel at ease. We felt like she had our back and genuinely cared about our needs being met during what were some pretty specific and nuanced negotiations for rental contracts written in complex Japanese etc.

We were also very impressed by her thoughtfulness, as she (on multiple occasions) went above and beyond to help us find multiple options for things without us even having to ask. We highly recommend her for interpretation services and think she'd be a great tour guide! Doumo arigatou gozaimasu Mayako-san!