Affiliate Disclosure
Some links on this site earn money. When you book the Kyoto and Nara day tour through the booking link, the selling platform pays this site a fee out of its own side of the transaction. The same applies to the hotel links and the free walking tour links. Nothing is added to what you pay: the price you see is the price anyone sees. Neither the tour operator, JTB Sunrise Tours, nor any booking platform owns, funds or reviews this site. The writing here is independent of all of them.
The Three Arrangements in Full
| Klook | The tour booking link points to the Kyoto and Nara Day Tour listing, the only paid tour this site covers and the only money link tied to it. If you book through that link, the platform pays this site a commission out of its own margin. The listing price is identical whether you arrive through the link or find it yourself. |
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| Expedia | The hotel links in the where-to-stay sections point to Expedia and are part of a hotel affiliate arrangement. When a qualifying stay is booked after following one of those links, this site receives a fee from Expedia. The room rate you are quoted does not change because of it. |
| GuruWalk | The free activity page links to free and pay-what-you-want walking tours through GuruWalk. That is a separate arrangement from the paid coach tour, and it works differently: guides on those walks are tipped by walkers directly, and this site earns a referral fee from GuruWalk when a booking is made through the link. |
That is the entire revenue picture. There are no banner adverts, no sponsored posts, no paid mentions of any restaurant, shop or ryokan, and no money of any kind from the tour operator itself. If a new arrangement is ever added, it will be stated on this page before the first such link goes live, not after.
The Money Side, In Plain View
- How this page earns This tour is real and bookable today, run by JTB Sunrise Tours, and it is covered on those merits. Booking links on this site earn a commission, but money has no vote in what gets written, including the honest note that reviewers have criticised the included lunch.
- One flat booking fee. Whichever of the six options you pick, the fee this site earns does not change. Any recommendation here comes from the option data itself, not from which choice pays more.
- The numbers on this page The 4.8 rating and the 32 reviews behind it are the booking platform's own published figures, printed here as they stand. Some things could not be verified for this tour: a maximum group size and a full list of exclusions are not published, so this page makes no claim about either.
- Same tour, same $185.65 for you. Links on this site, affiliate or plain, open the same booking page at the same from-price. When a booking is made through an affiliate link, the seller pays this site a commission from its own margin. The price you pay does not change, and no option costs more because of how you arrived at the page.
Numbers Left Exactly As Found
The rating and the review count belong to the listing, not to this site, and they are reproduced exactly. The from-price of 185.65 US dollars per adult belongs to the cheapest option, the Kyoto departure without lunch, and it moves with date and currency, which is why the live figure sits on the booking page. The other five options have no published dollar price at all. No commission, arrangement or preference changes any of those numbers.
Booking If You Skip The Links
Every link on this site can be ignored at no cost. The same tour can be found and booked independently, either directly with the operator or through any outlet that sells it, and the option notes, the itinerary pages and the FAQ read exactly the same either way. Nothing here is written to bury the direct route or to make the linked path look like the only one. Use whichever suits you.
Questions about any of this can go to the contact page, and the about page sets out the reasoning behind each figure on the site.