East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

7th of August is Risshu in Japanese calendar, which means beginning of autumn. In contrast to the implication of the name, we had another day over 33 degree on 11th of August. It is our big pleasure that we welcomed 18 guests from US, UK, Singapore, Spain, Portuguese, and China. We spent a good time together on such a hot day. As always, we started from Tokyo station, and we walked through tall buildings. It is fascinating to see mixture of modern and historical sight at one glance. We carefully...

It has been an unusually hot summer. Despite the heat, tourists continue to visit Japan to enjoy holidays. On our tour to the East Garden of the Imperial Palace on August 4, 15 guests from 9 countries joined us. Thank you so much. It was another hot day with high temperature up to 35 degrees, so we chose to walk and stay in the shades of trees as much as possible, took longer rests at air conditioned rest houses to reduce the risk of heat stroke. We were healed by the gentle wind coming through ...

Luckily, scorching heat seemed to sooth down after lasting for 20 days. But what came next was an "unpredictable typoon". We fixed our eyes on the weatherforcast anxiously but were happy to draw a conclusion that we would be able to conduct our tour at the last minute since the storm would not hit us during the tour and the transportation was in usual operation. Despite such a weather condition, it was our huge pleasure meeting each of our guests. We had an AM tour and an PM tour this day and we...

Many thanks to our weekday tour guests of 24th July at the East garden of the Imperial palace. We welcomed 8 people from Switzerland, Russia, Germany, France, Greece, Italy, and Israel. It was a terrible hot weather. Before starting the tour the temperature showed 34 degrees. At first we worried about heat shock in this bad condition, but our tour was much better than we had expected. During the tour we chose to do our guiding In the shades, like under the trees or inside a rest house. Fortunate...

Thanks to all the guests for joining the tour and having a good time with us on 21st July! We welcomed 34 guests and divided into 3 groups. It was extremely hot, the temperature got over 35 C, so we walked in the shades as much as possible and recommended guests to drink water at every water tap facilities. This summer season reminds me of the Bird Man Rally Contest which is held at Lake Biwa of Hikone city in Shiga prefecture. Rule of this contest is to fly by only human power with a handmade p...

Thank you for joining our Tokyo Free Walking Tour in the East Garden of the Imperial Palace. On the day of our two-guided tours, 14th of July, we welcomed 38 guests from, India, Canada, Germany, U.K., Australia, Hungary, Indonesia, U.S., Spain, Israel, Philippine and Iran The temperature rose up to around 35 degrees Celsius and stayed the same or rose even more in the afternoon. We started our two-hour tour from Tokyo Station in this harsh condition. Tokyo Station was overlooking us, and it also...

Thank you for joining our tour to Imperial Palace East Garden on July 7th. Please post your feedback in our Facebook (or Trip Advisor) or post your Facebook and tell your friends how you liked our tour. We will be happy if your friends join our tour in the future. We are happy to have 31 guests from Australia, Austria, France, Argentina, Brazil, Slovakia, Germany, Poland, UK, Indonesia, Netherland, Colombia, Morocco and US. Today, the guests were divided into 4 groups with two guides in each gro...

Thank you for joining us. We had 26 guests from 10 countries. Australia, Singapore, Italy, Israel, to name a few. Since World cup is now being held in Russia, we talked a lot about football and other sports we love during the tour. We love sports, and we love to chat with you about it.

Thank you for joining our walking tour to Imperial Palace East Gardens on June 27th. We were so happy to have met all 16 guests from Canada,U.S.A.,Belgium,Georgia,and Australia. The guests were divided into 4 groups with few of our guides in each group. This day was a weekday, so the garden was more peaceful and quiet than on weekends. It was a hot and windy day. But all of us enjoyed the tour. A guest from U.S.A told me that he bought ONIGIRI for snack at a convenience store almost every day. O...

Thank you for joining our Tokyo Free Walking Tour on June 23th. On the day of two tours, we welcomed 35 guests from 8 countries on our morning tour. The weather was recently weird in Japan, with it changing between sunny, cloudy, and rainy weather. Although the weather of this day was cloudy with partly rain, all of us enjoyed talking and walking during the tour. Strolling around the East Gardens of the Imperial Palace is also great for rainy days. A sunny day is absolutely the best time to visi...