Top Kyoto Religious Tours

Have a spiritual experience missed by most visitors to Japan on this tour from Kyoto. Journey outside of the city into the picturesque surroundings of the Hozu river, surrounded by mountains and bamboo groves. Visit ancient Buddhist temples and enrich your experience of Japan's spiritual side with a guided Zen meditation session with a resident monk. Afterward enjoy a traditional matcha green tea ceremony.

Kyoto is the most famous tourist destination in Japan with plenty of wonderful sights to see. Here we offer a luxurious tour early in the morning that enables you to visit three of the most iconic tourist attractions in Kyoto comfortably and efficiently. Kyoto is always crowded with tourists. Be an early bird and avoid the crowds.

Virtually experience Fushimi Inari, Japan's most popular shrine complex, with an insider. Most tourists come here for the thousand torii gates and miss out on the shrines and rituals that locals come for. This is the online version of our popular Alternative Fushimi Inari Walking Tour, on which we have hosted over 2,000 guests. Through video, you will visit a spirit that grants wishes to those who have gratitude, another that grants foresight, and even one that may combat Covid-19. Along the way you will learn about the shrine's 1,300-year-long history, old shamanistic rituals, and Shinto rituals as they are practiced today. Then we will enter a secret location to experience a sacred waterfall meditation together. You’ll learn how to do breathing meditation that you can experience without getting wet.

Experience the highlights of eastern Kyoto by train and on short walks, and let an expert with M.A. introduce studies in the history and culture of Kyoto in Japan. This type of transport gives you the opportunity to experience the most famous sights of Kyoto while feeling the pulse of local life. After a short train ride we reach the Fushimi Inari Shrine with its hundreds of scarlet shrine gates. Uji, associated with green tea in Japan, and Fushimi, a traditional center for sake brewing. Between the two districts is the Manpuku-ji Temple, the main temple of the Obaku Zen School, which has retained a distinctive Chinese appearance. The area of traditional sake breweries and warehouses in Fushimi has been used as a backdrop in many films. The final walk through the geisha district of Gion and the old town of Kyoto rounds off this tour.