2017

East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

Tour Report on Saturday, April 29th

We welcomed more than 70 guests from all over the world to our regular tour on Saturday, April 29th. It was so nice a day until the last minute when sudden drizzle occurred as weather report just had told in the morning.   But it wasn't a big problem. We could see full of smiles on this day as usual! We must say good-by to cherry blossoms this year,  but flowers after flowers continue to bloom. Azalea wisteria And some beautiful flowers which I don't know! I am really happy to be born in a count...
Asakusa

Notice:Asakusa Tour on Sunday,April 30

・Date/Time : April  30, 2017 ( 9:30―10:30 ) ・Meeting Place : Beside the police box by the Kaminarimon Gate of the Sensoji temple in Asakusa. ・We leave at 9:30. Please take care to arrive on time ! ・Participation Fee : Free ・Reservation : Not required ・The number of the participants of Asakusa tour are limited. First-come-first-served basis. Thank you for your understanding. ・Participants : Foreign tourists and residents, and their accompanying Japanese friends, families, etc. For more informatio...
East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

Tour report on 22 April 2017, Saturday

We thank guests from all over the world who joined the tour on that day. 66 people joined us from Germany, Portugal, USA, Israel, Malaysia, Australia, Argentina, Spain, Czech, France, Mexico, U.K. Croatia, and Italy. We divided into 5 groups. Now the cherry blossom season is over. The flower is known to be short-lived so we learn the lesson that happiness is a sudden gift and never last forever. It seems spring is gradually turning to summer as it gets warmer day by day in Tokyo. But in Japan, u...
East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

Tour Report on April 15 2017,Saturday

We welcomed 72 guests from all around of the world on April 15. We divided the guests into 7 groups and started our tour at 1:00 pm from Tokyo station. The following are the group pictures.   . It was cloudy warm day and it was almost end of cherry blossom season but a few flowers remained. There were many kinds of flowers in the park not only cherry blossom but also Thunb(Iris japonica) and azalea and more. Cherry blossoms are No1 flower for most of Japanese even it is over the full blossom. We...
East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

Tour Report on April 8 2017, Saturday

Thank you to all the wonderful guests who joined our tour on April 8. Although it was not a perfect day to go out for a walk (it was cloudy and we had some drizzles here and there), we welcomed almost 100 guests from all around the world. The cherry blossoms in the East Gardens of the Imperial palace were in full bloom, and many people were taking pictures of the beautiful pink flowers. It will be all gone soon, so if you are still in Japan, you must hurry! In our group, we had two boys as guest...
East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

Tour Report on 6 April 2017, Thursday

We held a weekday tour for this day. Sunny and warm, a little bit windy, but the climate was just splendid to stroll around the peak season of the cherry blossom!  We welcomed 28 guests from the U.S.A., Canada, Chile, France, Slovakia, Malaysia, and made 4 groups to go on for the walk. One of our French guests told us that they came to Japan to enjoy their honeymoon. They very much wanted to come at at the Cherry Blossom season.  Once we heard that, all of the guests in our group started celebra...
East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

Tour Report on April 1,2017 Saturday

Thank you for all the guests kindly joining our regular tour on April 1. We had no less than 89 guests from 20 countries, and 16 volunteer guides. We divided into 6 groups and enjoyed the tour. It was a cold day. I don’t believe it was April. And we had a light rainfall but I could walk without an umbrella. Usually it’s time when cherry blossoms were in full bloom, especially Somei-Yoshino cherry blossoms were in full bloom. Somei-Yoshino cherry is a kind of cherry trees and is the most popular ...
East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

Tour Report on 25 March 2017, Saturday

We thank many guests from all over the world. On that day we welcomed 50 people from U.K., USA, Deutschland, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Israel, Canada, Chiles, Spain, New Zealand, Australia, France and Mexico. We divide into 7 groups. The weather was fine but cold despite the season. According to the calender, winter has already finished and it is turning to spring. This tour was actually last tour in Japan's fiscal year of 2016, which began in April of 2016. March is closing month of fiscal year. Busin...
East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

Tour report on Mar.20,2017

Thank you for joining our tour. Although it is irregular and suddenly arranged, we could have 16 guests from Europe,America,Asia and the southern hemisphere.  In this season, some flowers begin to bloom in our Imperial palace site. Let me show you my favorite one. It is called Mitsumata in Japanese, just blooming now. To our interest, it is raw material of Japanese paper bill. And more, Mitsumata means three branched in our language. You can see it is really branched into three from the photo be...
Asakusa

Asakusa tour report on Mar. 19,2017

Today we welcomed 9 guests from many countries. Today Tokyo district was warm and very comfortable to walk.  2 weeks later cherry blossoms will  be in full bloom. On that day,too,  Asakusa was very crowded. So our guests could feel vigorous downtown atmosphere while walking. I'm sorry the 5 story pagoda is under repairing. So guests could 't see the real one. We showed them its picture. We also explained rules and manners of Buddhism and Shintoism before praying. They seemed to be interested in ...