About Us

The "Volunteer Guide" are not professional tour guides. The members have a regular job and do a guide in their spare time. Some members are students and others are housewives. They have reasons to participate this project of being a guide: to make new friends, exchange knowledge about culture and history, improve their English conversation skill, or just to reciprocate a kindness they received in foreign countries. Besides, the "license holder" guides need more guiding opportunities to improve their guiding skill, before or between their works as a professional.

Therefore, the Volunteer Guide's guiding skill, knowledge about history, and language proficiency vary in wide range. But we try to standardize it by shearing information needed in a tour, and sometimes have a workshop to put it in practice.

VisitKansai is a nonprofit project founded by Akio Nakata, and its website is maintained by Akio Nakata - blog - in Arashiyama, Kyoto.

サイト管理 : 中田亮雄　京都市右京区嵯峨

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