Published on Nov, 2024

We visited a number of cities in China, Japan and South Korea during 24 days. Emily planned the perfect trip for us: all selected hotels were of good quality, the guides in each city were knowledgeable and courteous, always willing to help, cars were clean and of adequate size. Coordination of so meny different resources across various countries is a logistics challenge, however, everything worked to near perfection. This was a wonderful one on one experience so different from mass tourism.

Published on Oct, 2024

This was once in a lifetime experience. We enjoyed our tour of China and Japan very much, visited fascinating and impressive places and took a lot of beautiful pictures. Our guides were patient and knowledgeable. We would like to thank you our guides, Colin in Beijing, Tracy in Xi'an, Johnny in Shanghai, Akie in Tokyo, Toshiba in Kyoto. And above all we would like to thank you and show our appreciation to Emily, who has done excellent work to organize and made all so easy and possible to it.

Published on Jul, 2024

Agate Travel planned an absolutely wonderful trip for us to Japan! It was a great experience working with Emily through the planning stages. She answered all my questions well within 1 business day and gave clear and helpful instructions and advice including everything from making payments to how to navigate travel within each city. I admired how organized she was through it all. For example, I found it useful that she would number the emails in the subject line each time a new topic was covered. It was really helpful when checking back on things. As for the trip itself, the hotel accommodations they arranged for us were very good indeed and the tour guides were outstanding, especially Heidi in Tokyo and Minnie in Kyoto. Agate's approach to travel with tour guides the first 1-2 days in a city followed by a day on your own was fit well for our family and allowed us to get the lay of the land and then explore on our own (relying heavily on helpful great tips and helpful recommendations from the local tour guides). I knew very little about Japan before this trip and now I feel like I have a wonderful appreciation of and understanding of Japan and its wonderful history and culture thanks to Agate and their perfectly planned and executed itineraries.

Published on Jul, 2024

Wendy Lee at Agate travel was wonderful to work with from start to finish. The tour was the most affordable than any other quote I received, and she worked with me to personalize a 10 day Japan trip to meet our family’s needs/requests. She handles all the big and small details that really takes the stress out of planning a trip to a foreign country, including suggestions for sights we didn’t know to include. I made many changes before finalizing our itinerary and she worked with me until all my questions were answered. She was also available to answer any questions I had during the trip. Tickets for bullet train reservations arrived at our hotel seamlessly and hotels she selected were all very close to local transportation. Our tour guides were also great (thanks Heidi and Haru!). We had a wonderful time, thanks Wendy!

Published on May, 2024

Wonderful and enjoyable stress-free experience, not only getting to know the amazing attractions but thanks to the conversations with the guides, you get to immerse in the culture and nuances of this distinctive nation. We had a personalized private tour by Agate Travel and it was flawless!