2018 | Tokyo Free Walking Tour®

BUDDHIST AND SHINTO DEITIES ARE WAITING FOR THE NEW YEAR SEASON, the 23rd of December, Asakusa

Thank you for joining our Tokyo Free Walking Tour in Asakusa. On the day of our two-guided tours, the 23rd of December, we welcomed 22 guests on our walking tour. These people came from different corners of the world, including Malaysia, Switzerland, Philippine, U.S.A. and U.K. The hectic and restless atmosphere in Japan signals that the year-end festivity has finally started. In Asakusa, most of the streets are packed with the influx of holiday shoppers, tourists and Buddhist devotees. An iconi...

2018.12.24

Asakusa

Tour Report on Dec. 22 (The East Garden of the Imperial Palace)

On 22nd of December 2018, we had the last tour to The East Garden of The Imperial Palace for this year. Despite the cold rainy weather, we had 15 guests from Australia, Canada, Philippines, India and China. We are thankful to all of them for attending our tour in the bad weather. This year, we can still enjoy the beautiful autumn foliage. As strolling along the path of the East Garden, we were sometimes greeted by the gingko’s dazzling yellow and maple’s stunning red. By the way, today is 23rd o...

2018.12.22

East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

Tour Report on Dec.18 (The East Garden of the Imperial Palace weekday tour)

We had two guests from Germany and Singapore joining our weekday tour at the East Garden of the Imperial Palace on Dec.18 . It was a beautiful sunny day to enjoy the colorful leaves of ginkgo trees and maple trees that still remained in the beginning of winter . As it was a weekday morning tour , we found few visitors walking around . Therefore , we had enough time to appreciate not only peaceful surroundings but also the exhibition of the Imperial collections at the Sannomaru Shozokan Museum . ...

2018.12.20

East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

THE SHINTO DEITY CALMLY WELCOME AN INFLUX OF VISITORS – the 16th of December, Harajuku

Thank you for joining our Tokyo Free Walking tour in Harajyuku areas. On the day of December 16, with a low temperature and overcast sky, we welcomed eighteen guests from different regions like U.S.A., Australia, Canada, Israel, Germany and U.K. Finally, December has come. The hectic year-end holiday season undeniably brings us restless times and drives us into engaging into piles of work and commitments. In Japanese households, people start their extensive year-end cleaning tasks, and in the wo...

2018.12.19

Meiji Shrine and Harajuku

Tour Report on Dec 15th (East Garden of Imperial Palace)

Thank you so much for coming our regular tour on Dec 15th. We 14 guides divided into 4 teams, and welcomed 22 guests from US, Australia, Hong Kong, New Zealand, UK, Thailand, Israel and Germany. Today was a little bit chilly and nice sunny day, and good enough to enjoy about 2.5 hrs walking outside, even for the little kids! This autumn season is continuing longer than usual, we hope all of the tourists can enjoy these beautiful scenery as long as possible. Next Saturday and Sunday, we are going...

2018.12.15

East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

The seasonal topic of year-end (Dec.8 The East Garden of the Imperial Palace Tour)

Thank you so much for joining our regular tour at the East Garden of the Imperial Palace on 8th December. We welcomed 15 people from Australia, Chili, Canada, USA, Sweden, Argentina, Macedonia, Mexico, and Paraguay. We were so happy to have met you! It was beautiful day but a little bit colder than last week. The leaves of the trees in the East garden of the Imperial Palace turned into deep red and brilliant yellow. We enjoyed it during the tour. At the day of the tour, the Palace household agen...

2018.12.12

East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

Buddhism and Christianity, 9 December 2018 Asakusa Tour

We thank guests who participated in the tours of that day. We met 13 wonderful people from Australia, Canada, UK, Chile, Portugal, USA, and Singapore. Our guests were great people and very interested in our explanation. One of them was an artist and draw the picture of Sky Tree. The weather was cold. It seemed real winter season started. From this time of the year, it is just getting colder. December is actually the start of winter. As a symbol of winter season, you can see illumination or Chris...

2018.12.09

Asakusa

SHIFTING FROM DRESSY COLORED LEAVES TO WINTER EVENING ILLUMINATION (DEC.2, SUNDAY-TOUR)

Thank you for your participation to our Meiji Shrine and Harajuku route tour on December 2. Lovely guests we welcomed counted 9 from Canada, Netherlands and US. The weather was cloudy and rather cold but not windy. Probably because of seasonality, both Meiji Shrine and Takeshita Street in Harajuku town were less crowded thus we could enjoy walking leisurely. Autumn colors were still bright, but it became closer to the end of its season. Lucky for our guests, we could see traditional Japanese sty...

2018.12.05

Meiji Shrine and Harajuku

Tour Report on 1-December, 2018, Saturday afternoon

Thank you the guests who kindly joined our afternoon tour on 1st of December. We had 13 guests from six countries, divided by four groups. Hard to believe that it was already in December: it was very warm and a best day for walking tour. I enjoyed the tour with our lovely guests, rainbow at Wadakura Fountain park, and very beautiful autumn leaves during the tour. In particular, we could see the reflection of such autumn leaves at the pond in Ninomaru Park. Awesome! Speaking of Ninomaru park, I r...

2018.12.02

East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

East garden of the Imperial palace welcomed us in a full dressy color (Nov.29, weekday-tour)

Time passes away..., so we settled off with a empty boat for a while. Finally, 4 trippers were so generous to take a ride on the way. Well, here comes the joy boat!! Also, we would like to thank our guests teaching us about their beautiful country, France and Australia. When we have a talk like this, we just wish to visit there soon. Needless to say, the color of the autumn trees were in full change. The sky was so blue so the contrast with the trees were extremely vivid. The Ginko leaves in fu...

2018.12.01

East Gardens of the Imperial Palace