Published on Apr, 2025
We are a family of four, in Japan for ten days, and had a full day with Tatsu Nakayama, probably the best guide we’ve ever had. Tatsu provided us with a brilliant introduction to this vast and diverse city. We covered 11km on foot, made a bus trip and several metro journeys, seeing the city’s most important shrines and temples and the beautiful gardens of the royal palace.
As well as being clever and full of information, Tatsu is just a lovely, gentle man, with superb English. Over our nine hours together he spe me nt time talking to us all individually as well as guiding us as a group. His excellent communication started two weeks before we left for Japan when he sent a WhatsApp message introducing himself as our guide for the trip and asking us what special requests we had. This led to him taking us to see one of the public toilets featured in the smash hit film Perfect Days, at my wife’s request. He said it was a first.
Tokyo is an amazing city, vibrant, cultured and full of good food. The people are friendly and so polite. Tatsu was the perfect person to introduce us to its highlights.