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Insider's Tour/Ebb & Flow

Insider's Tour/Ebb & Flow is a travel website offering private tours. Explore hidden gems and off-the-beaten-path spots with a local expert for unique experiences. 

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Explorer's voices

Jane F (SF, US)

"Thank YOU for your expert planning, guiding, patience in explaining things (over and over again), for the perfect rhythm of this trip, for all the amazing experiences you folded into our travels, for giving us the TOTAL experience of Japan from the varieties of geographies, foods, arts, cultural, historical, and spiritual expressions to the modes of travel through cities, towns and wildernesses!!

Phil & Tessie Y (LA, US)

"We really enjoyed meeting you and had a grand time in Japan. You’re a great guide and a wonderful person and I hope we see you again."

Scott T (Slocan, Canada)

I think about Japan every day, what a great trip!

About Insider's Tour/Ebb & Flow

Your Cultural Interpreter: Emi

Just one hour’s train ride from Tokyo station, Kamakura, the lively 12th century capital of Japan, offers today’s visitor more than 180 temples and shrines, unique handicrafts and distinctive cuisine with 24 seasons. Emi has lived in the area for more than 30 years and will guide you through timeless and unique aspects of Japan. 

She worked in the Tokyo bureau of a major US newspaper more than 10 years, and for the multilingual website nippon.com, Also was a chief researcher for the book “Sushi and Beyond”. 


Has been enjoying tea ceremony more than 10 years. Loves nature activities such as seakayaking and hiking. Love potteries and being a member of the Japan Folk Crafts Art Association (Nihon Mingei Kyokai).  

Emi can bring you to the tourist-free places only insiders know, and schedule your visit to only one kind of experience. You are guaranteed to leave with a smile at the end of the day!​

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Emi in her kimono handed down
from her mother.
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