Kobe: 4-Hour Cycling Tour with Local Guide

【OUTLINE】 

This four-hour cycling tour only made possible by a local guide who knows Kobe inside and out will take you to neighborhood restaurants and all the must-see places in town.

【HIGHLIGHTS】 

• Guided by a bicycle shop owner who knows Kobe like the back of his hand.
• The course features mostly back streets that only a local would be familiar with.
•  Requests accepted for private tours.

【SCHEDULE】

[10:00 a.m.] meet → course description → cycle → lunch → cycle → return and enjoy a scone as you relax → [2:00 p.m.] end of tour

【DETAILS】

At SPARK, a bicycle shop in Sannomiya specializing in mountain bikes, local English language tour guides who know everything there is to know about Kobe plan and sell bicycle tours that can only be experienced here. This course will take you through the back streets, eat lunch at a restaurant that only a local would know, and visit Kobe's hidden hot spots. Take this 4-hour tour and get treated to sights you wouldn't see unless you lived here for ten years. The shop designs a variety of other courses too, such as visiting worship facilities representing seven of the world's religions all concentrated in Kobe, a tour focused on confectionery and architecture, or perhaps a mountain tour running through the back hills by bike, or even a 180 km long stride around Awaji Island across the sea. Why? Because they know Kobe and they know how to have fun.

【THINGS TO NOTE】

• Time：4 hours

• Meeting point： SPARK Scone & Bicycle
  4-18-21 Nakayamatedori Chuo-ku,Kobe-shi, Hyogo-ken 650-0004
  

• Access：  
  30 minutes by train from JR Osaka Station to JR Motomachi Station → 10-minute walk from JR Motomachi Station to SPARK

• Language support：Japanese, English

• Included ：Bicycle, helmet, one local guide, insurance, scone and tea or coffee

• Excluded：Entrance fees into art galleries or museums, lunch
  

• Participation requirements ：  
   ・Healthy (able to join the cycling tour without assistance)
   ・At least 150 cm tall

• Free Wi-Fi ：×

• Other things to note ：

　・ Please wear comfortable clothes that are easy to cycle (exercise) in.

　・The tour may be interrupted at the decision of the guide, if it cannot be conducted safely (fees will not be refunded once the tour begins).

　・The tour will be canceled, if a weather advisory or warning is expected for the day (fees will be refunded in full).

【Cancellation policy】

7 to 4 days before the tour date: 40% of the tour price
3 to 2 days before the tour date: 60% of the tour price
The day before the tour date, on the day of the tour: 100% of the tour price