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Wikipedia says this place can be visited for free. Is the part you paid basically for transportation and translator / tour guide? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

• 240dl 8y ago
  The tour is free, but yeah, I had to pay transportation for myself and the guide (who I arranged online after some googling). The actual site is fairly far from central Tokyo, so it's about a 20-30 dollar train fare. The guide himself was free, a nice older gentleman who used to be some sort of government liason. He insisted on taking a taxi for the 2 miles from the train station to the tour though, which was pricey. But I didn't have much of a choice (despite a whole face-saving false choice he offered of walking vs taxi that was deeply emblematic of a certain strain of Japanese cultural weirdness).
  • hnaccy 8y ago
    What happens if you choose to walk?
    • 240dl 8y ago
      He offered to walk or take a taxi, but when I said I was fine with walking he just kept repeating the same the question with increasing emphasis until I agreed to the taxi.