Meiji Shrine and Harajuku

What a perfect day! We could welcome 12 guests at our meeting place, the Giant Torii under such a mild climate even it was in the middle of the winter. Thank you for coming from U.S.A, Brazil, U.K.,Australia, Singapore. The precinct surrounded by greenary was such a relief, and the energetic Harajuku area was also so stimulating for all of us. Each time we visit the shopping area, we could find new shops or discover more "hyper" things. More to say, this day(Feb 3rd), was the exact day of a seas...

Thank you for joining our 1st Meiji Jingu Shrine & Harajuku Tour in 2019. We welcomed 8 guests from Australia and Germany. <Group A: 3 guests and 2 guides> <Group B: 1 family and 4 guides> From Jan 1st to 3rd, more than 300,000 people had visited the Meiji Jingu Shrine to make wishes for the coming year. We could feel the special atmosphere of the busiest shrine in Japan. We Tokyo Free Walking Tour is going to have the 10th anniversary in this year! From now on, we will keep doing our best to pr...

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...

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...

TFWT appreciate your participation in our tour of Meiji Shrine and Harajuku area on November 18. We welcomed the 21 friendly guests from Spain, Switzerland, Israel, Canada, America, Taiwan and Vietnam. Weather was perfect in the midst of autumn. I hope all of you enjoyed viewing Shichi-go-san(7-5-3) event, chrysanthemum display, wedding procession and changing colors of the leaves with us. Shichi-go-san is an event to pray for the growth of children of three, five and seven years of age around N...

Many thanks to people who participated in the tour. On that day we welcomed 17 guests from US, Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, Belgium, and Venezuela. We divided into 3 groups. It was a very mild day although slightly rained later in the morning. There was a special event on the Meiji Jingu Shrine that pleased our guests. Exhibition of the chrysanthemum. Beautiful chrysanthemum flowers shown on the corridor and inside the main pavilion square attracted so many visitors there. Each one was wel...

Thank you for joining our Tokyo Free Walking Tour in Harajuku area. On the 21st of October, with sunny and occasionally cloudy skies, we welcomed 8 guests, people from the U.S.A., Singapore, Canada, Australia, Belgium and Japan, to our walking tour. We started the 90-minute tour in front of the torii or shrine gate of the Meiji Shinto Shrine, and concluded it at the Omote Sando Avenue. Going through the torii, with brisk footsteps that sound like "zaku zaku", we proceeded to the shrine's main bu...

We thank many guests joining this tour. On that day we welcomed 20 guests from UK, Australia , USA, Belgium, Spain, Nederland, and Indonesia and then we divided into 4 groups. It was really a hot day, unbelievable in this time of the year. So the groom and the bride we saw should have felt very hot. Their costumes are typical Japanese Shinto Shrine wedding style. However, a groom costume, black suite and gray stripe trousers is kind of, western. Black was never used as formal ceremony cloth colo...

Thank you for joining our tour today. Today we welcomed 13 guests from many countries. Now we are in the middle of September. Hot summer has gone by and the weather is gradually shifting to autumn. Soon Japan will enter the best season for travelling. Please come and join our tour. Now let me get back to today's tour topic ( Meiji shrine-Harajyuku ) . Today's topic is about a torii which has inseperable with a shrine. The first torii of Meiji shrine is the gathering place of our tour. When Japan...