East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

Many thanks to 18 guests who joined the tour from USA, Canada, Australia, Columbia, Vietnam, Portugal, and Germany. We divided into 4 groups. It was hot and humid morning as May is known to be beginning of summer season. In the East Garden, irises blossomed beautifully. Our guests enjoyed viewing the irises. The pond contains collection of various species of irises. That is treasure of the garden. Now is early summer in Tokyo, but in southernmost prefecture of Japan, Okinawa is already in mid-su...

Thank you very much for joining our tour on May 26. We welcomed 21 guests from Argentina, US, UK, Malaysia, Philippines, France, Canada, Bulgaria and Australia. All of us enjoyed strolling in some groups in the East Gardens. The last guide point of our tour is Ninomaru Garden which is a part of East Gardens.　. In Tokugawa Shogunate time, this area used to be the second palace compound of Edo Castle where Shogun`s family lived. Prior to the opening of East Gardens of the Imperial Palace in 1968, ...

Thank you so much for joining TFWT for the morning tour on May 26th. We welcomed 8 guests from USA and India. A family, a lady and a group of three men. We enjoyed walkingunder the beautiful weather in May. Now irises were blooming in Ninomaru garden. For another month will be the best time to come and enjoy the irises. Hydrangeas are beginning to bloom in the Honmaru area. Even after the cherry blossoms, we can enjoy a lot of flowers in this Imperial palace garden. This is a place to enjoy fres...

We thank guests who participated in this tour. We welcomed 38 guests from USA, Ireland, U.K., Canada, Malaysia, India, Germany, Italy, Argentina, Austria, Singapore, South Africa, France, and China.Then we divided into 4 groups. That day was coincided with Royal Prince Harry and Meghan's wedding in U.K. That signifies our tour because our providing tour has a spot that memorises our imperial family's marriages, called Wadakura Fountain Park that consists of two fountains. The park was establishe...

Thank you so much for joining Tokyo Free Walking Tour on May 12th afternoon. We welcomed 26 guests from U.S.A., Singapore, Uruguay, Portugal, Spain, Belgium, U.K. and Romania. We enjoyed walking while watching the beautiful green trees. During the tour, I was asked from our guest what kind of Japanese food we eat every day. The guest was wondering why Japanese women are slim. If you think of Japanese food, what comes to your mind? Sushi and Tempura are well known as Japanese food, however, we do...

We would like to thank all of our guests showing up from the morning this day. For this week, most of the days were covered with thick cloud and raining has lasted for long, but this day was just like a miracle. We could enjoy a comfortable walk under a blue blue sky. We welcomed energetic 8 guests from Venezuela, Chile, Croatia this day. All the talk we had with our guests was quite interesting!! After our group had passed a tea-house next to the Ninomaru-garden, there was a simple discussion a...

Thank you for coming our regular walking tour in the East garden of the Imperial palace on 5th May. It was on the National holiday of Children’s Day. The weather was fine and very comfortable. We welcomed 36 guests from 14 countries (U.S.A., Poland, UK, Canada, Germany, Israel, Australia, Spain, France, Netherlands, Austria, Czech, Sweden, and Cyprus). We were so happy to have met you! Many people showed up to the East Garden of the Imperial Palace because of long holiday of Golden week in Japan...

Many thanks to guests who joined the tour on that day. We welcomed 21 guests from Spain, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Argentina, Turkey and Israel. We divided into 4 groups. The weather was very fine although we were worried because it was heavily raining and very windy early in the morning. But the rain and wind stopped as though the weather sided with us. It was an irregular national holiday morning tour. The day was Constitution Memorial Day, which marked 71th year since current constitution w...

We explored the East Garden of the Imperial Palace with 48 guests from all over the world. It's a comfortable sunny day. Our tour started from the Tokyo station, red brick beautiful building. We walked to the Imperial Palace through the Marunouchi, which is the center of Japanese business. The Imperial Palace is the former Edo Castle of the Samurai government of the Shogunate in the 17-19 century. We visited the old castle gate and castle towers. It was the first day of the Golden Week in Japan....

Thank you for all our guests who joined " April 21, the East Gardens of the Imperial Palace". We welcomed 43 guests from U.S.A, Argentina, Australia, Canada, Israel, Italy, Germany, India, Indonesia and Malta. As you see in the pictures, not only adults but also a lot of children fully enjoyed our tour at flourish and lushly green gardens :) On April 25th, Emperor Akihito and empress Michiko held annual garden-party at "Akasaka Imperial Garden". Emperor and Empress enjoyed talking among top-notc...