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We had a great experience on the Osaka Street Art bike tour with Eric. I always love bike tours as a way to get a personal view of a city while covering a lot of ground. This was definitely the case here, and Eric had multiple snack breaks for us during the tour. It's fun to get to experience the truly local places that you'd have no idea are there even when you walk right by them. My family loved the biking, seeing all the street art, and talking with Japan, and history, and art with Eric. Truly a great experience.

Thank you Eric for introducing us to the Yodokabe project, leading us through the city streets, showing us beautiful graffiti, and illustrating in detail the techniques and the artists who took part in it. It was a relaxing 4 hours and not at all tiring (Osaka has no hills!!), which allowed us to discover hidden corners that we would never have seen otherwise. The refreshments at the cafeteria, the tachinomi, and the pizza were also excellent! We can only recommend this experience 100%! Stay Kawaii !!!

My wife and I took this bike tour with our guide, Erik. We try to do a bike tour in every city we visit and hope to see as many non-touristy sites as possible just so we can get a more authentic feel of the place we are visiting. It not always an easy bike tour to find because most want to focus on the well known highlights. This bike tour absolutely nailed this desire of ours perfectly. In fact, we both agreed it might have been one of the best bike tours we have ever done in a major city. We loved all the urban artwork, seeing the secluded narrow alleys, experiencing the authentic Japanese culture, eating New York style pizza and hearing the stories that came along with all of that. Highlight: Randomly meeting the blue haired store owner as our guide told the story of being hired by the blue haired store owner to paint a beautiful mural across from the store. Well done, Erik! Keep sharing your story to as many people as possible. It's a good one.

This was a very enjoyable, unique, and worthwhile tour. The guide, Eric, was very knowledgable as well as very passionate. In addition to viewing much dazzling street art, I was able to see parts of Osaka that I otherwise would not have seen. Overall, this was a pleasant, engaging tour that I’d highly recommend.

Extraordinary journey to discover some decidedly little-known neighborhoods of Osaka and especially street art. Thanks to Joel artist photographer wonderful guide !

that eric is RAD! not only is his work one of the murals we saw, we stopped at some cool places that he clearly has a good relationship with. he was so friendly, engaging and have us such great background on each if the artists

Our guide, Erik, was awesome! Very knowledgeable on fabulous murals, landmarks and delicious “hole in the wall” food places! He’s an artist himself so that made it even more interesting. He made sure this 71 yo felt comfortable the whole time. Would definitely recommend this cycle tour company!

The tour is really insightful and interesting, I love learning about the smaller details in these huge cities. Thank you to Joel for making it super wellworth! Definitely booking with the company again :)

Do this tour instead of the Mario Karts (go karts). You get to ride around the lesser known parts of Osaka with a local street artist. The experience is exceptionally well put together - the art, the ride through Osaka alleys, and the stop-offs for snacks. I would recommend this to anyone who wants to explore Osaka.

Initially, while I was on my trip in Japan, I was looking to book a bike tour in Tokyo but due to my schedule being packed, I wasn't able to. I knew that I would be spending some time in Osaka and Kyoto so I came across this bike tour in Osaka and I was immediately drawn to the itinerary because it just seemed different from all of the other bike tours I had came across. As someone who loves and appreciates art (who is also an art major and designer), this tour was exactly what I was looking for. Luckily for me, I was the only traveler (solo) who had booked the tour for that day and Eric (the tour guide) took me on a cool journey through the streets and small alleys of Osaka checking out some awesome wall art from different artists. Seeing one of Eric's pieces on the tour was also a nice surprise. Every artist (including Eric) had a story behind their artwork and Eric is a great storyteller. This tour was very unique and memorable. It was like riding through a "street gallery" lol. You never knew what you were gonna see because some of these art murals are tucked away behind buildings. Some are front-facing and some are on the side. If you're someone who appreciates art or you're just looking for something different and unique, this just might be the tour for you. It's laid back and I felt totally safe riding with Eric. He made a cool riding partner and it was nice to learn about his background as well as the Japanese culture. Because I was lucky enough to have the tour all to myself, Eric was able to show me some other cool art gems that I probably wouldn't have seen if I was booked with a bigger group. And the pizza stop at the end was a nice wrap up to the tour (pizza is soooo good lol). I'd go again just for the pie slice lol. I'd definitely recommend this tour to art lovers or to anyone who just wants to experience a different and unique type of tour that's outside of just seeing shrines and monuments.