Tokyo Free Walking Tour®

Tour Report of Meiji Shrine and Harajuku on October 6, 2024; Doll Appreciation Ceremony

Thank you for choosing our Meiji Shrine and Harajuku tour on October 6, 2024. We welcomed 23 guests from US, Australia, Portugal, Germany, Netherlands, Macedonia, Brazil, UK and Argentina. I hope all of you enjoyed and shared interesting conversations with us during the tour. As promised, group photos and snapshots are attached to remember the fun times we had. Group A Group B Group C Group D Group E We came across the Doll Appreciation Ceremony. In Japan, there is a tradition of believing that ...

2024.10.06

Meiji Shrine and Harajuku

Rainy but fun tour : Tour Report of the East Garden of the Imperial Palace on October 5, 2024

Thank you for joining our tours of the eastern garden of the imperial palace on the 5th of October. We welcomed twelve guests from Germany, Singapore, Colombia, UK, Greece, and Canada in the morning and ten guests from Ireland, US, Vietnam, India, France in the afternoon. I hope all of you enjoyed and shared interesting conversations with us during the tour. As promised, group photos and snapshots are attached to remember the fun time we had. East Garden of the Imperial Palace AM Group A East Ga...

2024.10.06

East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

Tour Report of Asakusa on October 5, 2024; Moon viewing

Many thanks for joining our tours at Asakusa on October 5, 2024. We welcomed 12 guests from Macedonia, Australia, Germany, Costa Rica, US and Taiwan. It was a tremendous opportunity for us to meet wonderful guests from many countries and share interesting conversations. As promised, group photos and snapshots are attached so that you can remember the fun times we had during the tour. Group-A Group-B Group-C It rained during the tour, but we still enjoyed sharing our different cultures. Have you ...

2024.10.05

Asakusa

Tour Report of the East Garden of the Imperial Palace on September 26, 2024

Thank you for choosing our tour of the eastern garden of the imperial palace on the 26th of September. We welcomed thirteen guests from Mexico, Germany, Canada, Australia, Italy, and Austria. I hope all of you enjoyed and shared interesting conversations with us during the tour. As promised, group photos and snapshots are attached to remember the fun time we had. We experienced quite a long summer with scorching heat this year. We had been looking forward to fall and pleasant weather. Finally, t...

2024.09.30

East Gardens of the Imperial PalaceReport

Welcome to the Emmy Award winning SHOGUN’s castle, report on the tour to the East Garden of the Imperial Palace, 28 September 2024

Thank you very much for joining the tour of the day. Before reporting, why not we celebrate TV drama, SHOGUN's record breaking Emmy Award wins in this month including best actor whose role was SHOGUN, a character modeled after a real SHOGUN, TOKUGAWA Ieyasu, who established the current East Garden of the Imperial Palace premise, formerly Tokugawa Shogunate castle. Japan Celebrates Historic Emmy Award Wins for 'Shogun' The drama is a fiction but it is based on the real historical events and figur...

2024.09.30

East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

Tour Report of Asakusa and Ueno Park on September 29, 2024

Many thanks for joining our tours at Asakusa and Ueno Park on September 29, 2024. We welcomed 50 guests from US, UK, Australia, Germany, Netherlands, Austria, Israel, Mexico, Brazil, Canada, Venezuela, Ireland, and Switzerland. It was a tremendous opportunity for us to meet wonderful guests from many countries and share interesting conversations. As promised, group photos and snapshots are attached so that you can remember the fun times we had during the tour. Asakusa AM Group A Asakusa AM Group...

2024.09.29

AsakusaUeno Park

The sad day of burning of old dolls, the Ueno Park tour on September 25

Thank you for joining our tour at Ueno Park on September 25. 5 people kindly joined us from Australia, Germany and Canada. Autumn is here at last. Weather was comfortable and we could luckily complete the tour before it started to rain. We hope you enjoyed walking with us. The photos we took during the tour are posted. During the tour we have visited the Kiyomizu Kannon Temple beside the Shinobazu Pond. The temple was built in 1631 and is the oldest existing building at the park. The day (Sept 2...

2024.09.25

Ueno Park

Tour Report of the East Garden of the Imperial Palace, 21 September 2024

Many thanks to the guests who joined the tour on that day. We welcomed 15 guests from USA, Lithuania, UK, Germany, India, Brazil, Taiwan and Vietnam. We hope all of you enjoyed and shared interesting conversations with us during the tour. As promised, group photos and snapshots are attached to remember the fun times we had. One more information for our coming guests in the future. Our meeting place is the Marunouchi Central Gate (ground floor) at JR Tokyo Station. Please find our flag there. You...

2024.09.23

East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

The sacred trees, the Asakusa and Ueno Park tours on September 22

Thank you for taking the time to join our tours in Asakusa and Ueno Park on September 22. We welcomed 30 guests from America, Canada, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Germany, Romania, Australia, Taiwan and Bangladesh. There was a light rain, but it was mostly fine. We hope you enjoyed walking with us. Various photos were taken during the tours and are posted for your memory. Most of Shinto shrines have sacred trees called Goshinbokuご神木 and they are worshipped as the object of worship in which spirits o...

2024.09.23

AsakusaUeno Park

Tour Report of Asakusa on September 18,2024 “Ohigan”

Thank you for choosing our tour at Asakusa on Sept.18,2024. We welcomed 11 guests from Canada, Germany and USA. I hope all of you enjoyed and shared interesting conversations with us during the tour. As promised, group photos and snapshots are attached to remember the fun times we had. The week of before and after three days both the spring equinox and autumnal equinox is called “Higan”. This year autumn Higan will from Sept.19th to 25th and 23rd is public holyday. “Higan” is related to Japan...

2024.09.19

AsakusaReport