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Full-Day Private Guided Tour to Mount Koya

By Nara Guide
Free cancellation available
Price is ￥29,500 per adult
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Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 7h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages
Overview

Come with us to visit Mount Koya, Japan’s spiritual and cultural jewel, for a day on foot and by public transport!

We take the train and we sink into the deep countryside. This gives us a contrasting view between the lively city and the quiet nature, before reaching the top of the mountain by cable car.

The Daimon portal welcomes us upon arrival. We are crossing this border between the human world and the spirit world. Then we walk and visit Danjo Garan, the historic center of the Shingon Buddhist sect since the 9th century, then the Kongobu-ji Temple, founded by the military dictator Hideyoshi Toyotomi, which now serves as an administrative center.

We finally visit Oku no In. Japan’s largest cemetery houses the mausoleum of Kobo Daishi and 200,000 graves of people who wanted to rest with him.

You will learn more about the history, culture and spirituality of Japan after this day. Are you coming? We are waiting for you!

Activity location

  • Koyasan Station
    • Koyasan
    • 648-0211, Koya-cho, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Namba Hiroba Square (Pedestrian Paradise)
    • 1
    • 542-0076, Osaka, Osaka, Japan

Check availability

Mount Koya: Fees not Included
  • Activity duration is 7 hours7h
    7h
  • English
Starting time: 8:40am
Price details
￥29,500 x 7 Adults￥206,500
Total
Price is ￥206,500
Until Thu, Nov 27
Departure From Kyoto
  • Activity duration is 7 hours7h
    7h
  • English
Starting time: 8:00am
Price details
￥50,500 x 4 Adults￥202,000
Total
Price is ￥202,000
Until Thu, Nov 27
Mount Koya: Transport and Entrance Fees Included
  • Activity duration is 7 hours7h
    7h
  • English
Starting time: 8:40am
Price details
￥56,000 x 3 Adults￥168,000
Total
Price is ￥168,000
Until Thu, Nov 27
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What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    Guide Fees (their Entrance, Lunch and Transport Fees)
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Lunch: around 2,500 JPY/person
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Transport Fees (around 3,700 JPY/person/day)
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Entrance Fees: Kongobuji Temple (1000 JPY/person)

Know before you book

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
  • Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
  • Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness

Activity itinerary

Koyasan Station
  • 1h
  • Admission ticket not included
We take the train from Osaka and arrive at Mount Koya via the funicular. You can see the whole area from the train, from the big city to nature, then climb the mountain.
Koyasan Daimon
  • 1h
Gateway to Mount Koya and the spirit world.
Koyasan Danjo Garan
  • 1h
  • Admission ticket not included
Main place of prayer of the Shingon Buddhist sect since the 9th century.
Kongobu-ji Temple
  • 1h
  • Admission ticket not included
Built in the late 16th century by the military dictator Hideyoshi Toyotomi, it serves as the headquarters of the Shingon Buddhist sect.
Koyasan Okunoin
  • 1h 30m
Famous Japanese cemetery, with 200,000 graves of more or less famous families and at its end, the mausoleum of Kobo-Daishi, founder of this place.

Location

Activity location

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    Koyasan Station
    • Koyasan
    • 648-0211, Koya-cho, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    Namba Hiroba Square (Pedestrian Paradise)
    • 1
    • 542-0076, Osaka, Osaka, Japan

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