Meiji Shrine and Harajuku

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...

Today in Tokyo it was raining and temporally heavily. We are grateful for our nine guests from all over the world who joined, regardless of the bad weather conditions. . Meiji Shrine is famous for its religious meaning, but I think Meiji Shrine has another aspect. Let me introduce. In Meiji Shrine Meiji Emperor and Shoken Empress spirits are enshrined. And this year our country has welcomed 150 year anniversary of the Meiji Restoration. Meiji Restoration means the change from 'samurai' warrior' ...

On the 19th of August, we welcomed around 10 guests on our walking tour. Guests came from different regions of the world, including Singapore, Turkey, Spain, and Canada. Finally, the scorching weather which prevailed all over Japan for the past month has come to an end. The heat index in Tokyo has fallen drastically, and the temperature is now recorded at around 28 degrees Celsius. At the start of the tour, the weather was so perfect but occasionally the sky was exceedingly covered with scattere...

It was another hot day in Tokyo which was over 30 degrees Celsius at 10 am in the morning! Despite the heat, we welcomed nine Tokyo lover tourists from Australia, Belgium, U.K., U.S., and Vietnam. We divided up into four groups so that the guides can communicate closely in small groups. Having got together in front of the first Torii Gate next to JR Harajuku station, we started the tour on time at 10 am, although some of the guest came pretty early. We were sorry to have them wait but the tour r...

Thank you very much for joining us even when it was a very hot day. We appreciate all of our guests whom were brave enough to overcome the heat!! (Actually we could have plenty of shade inside Meiji Jungu to walk around) We welcomed 17 guests from U.S.A, Canada, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Italy, U.K. "What is this?" We were asked by our guests when arriving at the 2nd Torii. It was also our first time to see a SAKAKI attached to the Oo-torii, and the branch itself looked like a giantornamen...

We've been puzzledover the weird weather since this spring.By the first days of April, cherry blossoms had already gone. And now, rainy season had ended by the end of June. Both happened about two weeks earlier than usual, so surprised! Anyways, we were grateful that 19 guests from US, Australia, Singapore, Israel, Italy and Spain joined our tour last weekend.It was their first visit to Japan for most of them. I hope they had enjoyed our tour through the Meiji Shrine and Harajuku area. At the fr...

Thank you for joining our Tokyo Free Walking Tour. One day during the rainy season in Tokyo, we had a cloudy sky and a ray of sunshine. On that same day, 17th of June, we welcomed 15 guests from, U.S.A., Australia, Argentina Singapore, Italy and Germany in front of Torii, or the Shinto Shrine gate, -the Meiji Shinto Shrine in Harajaku. The weather condition didn't hinder the people to explore and feel the freshness of the mysterious tunnel made by more than 100,000 trees in the Shinto shrine gro...

I sincerely thank you for taking the time for joining the tour to Meiji Shrine and Harajuku on June 3. We had nine guests from the various countries of Canada,America,Mexico,Columbia,Chile,UK and Philippines. Four of the guests had participated in our tour to the East Gardens of the Imperial Palace on the previous day which we appreciate very much. The weather was perfect on this day prior to the rainy season. I hope all of you enjoyed walking with us. As you might have been guided, Harajuku Sta...