Tour itinerary
9:03 Kanazawa station
11:11 Fukui Dinosaur Museum, see Dinosaur exhibition, and have a lunch
14:02 leave the museum
15:09 Eiheiji temple, visit the temple
17:15 leave the temple
18:47 arrive at Kanazawa station
At your hotel lobby at Kanazawa city
Eiheiji temple
Fukui Dinosaur Museum
At Kanazawa station
Eiheiji temple was founded in 1244 by Dogen Zenji, a famous Buddhist monk. He studied Zen Buddhism in China for several years. He returned to Japan in 1228 to introduce Soto Zen. He established the temple in this remote mountainous place. His teachings have been guiding Zen Buddhist followers ever since. Over 200 monks join Zen training every year. The trainings include meditation, sutra reciting, preparing meals, having meals, cleaning floors and outside gardens.
Fukui Dinosaur museum is regarded as one of the three top dinosaur museums in the world. Visitors take a long escalator down the the first floor of basement. Visitors observe the variou dinosaur related exhibitions while walking up higher floors to the third floor.
Tour price includes the guide fee and guide's transportation fares.
The following costs are not included in the tour price.
Transportation fares for you. Transportationfares per person: Kanazawa - Fukui JR round trip ticket 5,000 yen. Echizen Tetsudo one-day ticket 1,620 yen. Bus fare between Eihei guti and Eiheiji round trip ticket 820 yen . A taxi fares round trip ride between Katsuyama and Dinosaur museum 5,000 yen. Please pay a lunch for a guide.
Notice time for application to this tour is until one week before your desired tour date.
Murakami-san was an excellent guide. He grew up in Kanazawa so he has a wealth of information about the city's history and culture. The itinerary he arranged was customized to our interests, and he was very attentive to our needs. Unfortunately we had to end our tour a little early due to some minor health issues. He seemed disappointed, so please make sure he knows that it was not because of anything he did--we were very pleased with his services.
Dear Jackie, Thank you very much for 5-star rating and wonderful comment to my guide service. It was a fine day, and became cloudy in the afternoon. Overall it was a nice day for the tour. When you had your gold leaf experience at the workshop, the room was noisy because of the private section remodeling construction work of the shop. I am very much happy that you enjoyed the tour with me.. Best regards, Takashi
Takashi was a very good & thoughtful guide. He provided a brochure that was waiting for us at our hotel when we checked in confirming all details. Our tour was amazing, wonderful scenery on bus to Shirakawa-go an amazing world heritage site. Then back to Kanazawa, visited Gardens, Castle & original Samuri area. So much culture & history. Takashi provided much information. Based on our experience we would thoroughly recommend Takashi's services & tour.
Dear Peter, Thank you very much for 5-star rating and wonderful comment to my guide service. It was a nice day. A cloudy and moderate temperature. I am grateful to know that you enjoyed Shirakawago-Kanazawa tour. Best regards, Takashi
On time, helpfull
Dear Mrs. Thank you for a high evaluation to my guide service. We started the tour behind schedule because of your unsuccessful booking of train seats. So, I had to cancell seats of a highway bus originally booked. Seats of all highway bus after original one were all booked by other passengers. So, we took alternative route from Shin-Takaoka to Shirakawago and Takayama. We were lucky that we were able to vist both Shirakawago and Takayama as we planned. It was cold, cloudy and sometimes snowy day. Thank you again. Kind regards, Takashi
We had a very pleasant at day with Takashi San in Shirakawago and Kanazawa. Takashi San is very knowledgeable about the areas and we were able to see a lot that day. There were so much to see and do and since we took a long time at the gold leaf embellishment experience, we ended up running out of time and not able to see the Kanazawa castle. I think squeezing both Shirakawago and Kanazawa into one day is okay if you don’t go for the gold leaf embellishment experience, otherwise splitting them into two days would be more doable and relaxing. Overall it was a very nice day and thank you again to Takashi San for his time and patience.
Dear Rebecca, Thank you very much for high evaluation on my guide service. We visited Shirakawago in the morning, and Kanazawa in the afternoon. It was a snowy day. We were lucky that there were no traffic delay. I am sorry that we didn't have enough time for Kanazawa tour. Thank you very much for your precious advice on the tour itinerary. Best rgards, Takashi