Kura – Founding Member, Tours 2 Nara
Not everyone who falls in love with Japan was born there. Sometimes, the deepest devotion comes from someone who chose Japan deliberately, intentionally, and with their whole heart.
Kura-san is that person.
Originally from Argentina, Kura-san's journey to Japan wasn't a gap year adventure or a spontaneous experiment. It was the natural conclusion of a lifelong fascination. Long before he ever set foot in the country, Japan had already taken up permanent residence in his imagination — through its literature, its language, its quietly profound way of seeing the world. His home today tells that same story: shelves lined wall to wall with Japanese books, each one a small piece of the culture he has spent decades studying and loving.
When he finally moved to Japan, it wasn't long before one city captured him completely. Nara.
A Trilingual Cultural Bridge Between Argentina, Japan, and the World
What makes Kura-san genuinely rare — both as a person and as a guide — is the combination of perspectives he carries. Fluent in Japanese, Spanish, and English, he moves effortlessly between three languages and the very different cultural worlds they represent. For Spanish-speaking travelers planning a guided tour in Nara, this is particularly meaningful. Finding a guide who can deliver the nuance of 1,300-year-old Japanese history in natural, flowing Spanish — not translated from a script, but felt and understood from the inside — is almost unheard of.
Kura-san doesn't just translate words. He translates worlds.
Over the years he has worked with a wide range of Japanese companies and organizations, representing Japanese history and culture at conventions and international festivals around the world. That global experience comes home every time he leads a walking tour through the streets and shrines of Nara.
From the Pages of Japanese Literature to the Paths of Nara Park
There is a particular kind of knowledge that only comes from genuine love — not from memorized facts, but from someone who has read the literature, walked the ground, and spent years asking questions most visitors never think to ask.
That is what Kura-san brings to every Nara day trip from Osaka he guides. When you walk with him past the stone lanterns of Kasuga Taisha Shrine or stand before the Great Buddha at Todaiji Temple, he gives you the context that makes it land — the mythology, the history, the deeply human stories behind one of Japan's most ancient cities. And when he takes you off the main path, away from the crowds and into the quieter corners that most visitors on a standard Nara Park tour never reach, that's when you understand what separates a Tours 2 Nara experience from everything else.
Guided Tours in Nara in Spanish, English, and Japanese
Tours 2 Nara is one of the very few operators in Nara offering fully guided walking tours in Spanish. For Spanish-speaking travelers from Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, and beyond, Kura-san makes that possible — not through translation, but through genuine fluency and cultural empathy. He came to Japan from the Spanish-speaking world himself, so he understands instinctively what international travelers find surprising, moving, or magnificent about Japanese culture. That shared journey makes him not just a great guide, but an unforgettable one.
Small group sizes keep every tour intimate — room for real questions, genuine curiosity, and the kind of slow, meaningful travel that turns a good day trip from Osaka into a memory you'll carry for years.
Just Nara, the way it deserves to be experienced.
