Report

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

THE YEAR-END SEASON BRINGS US THE RESTLESS TIME IN JAPAN, the 25th of November (Asakusa)

Thank you for joining our Tokyo Free Walking Tour. On the day of our two-guided tours, the 25th of November, we welcomed 12 guests from, U.S.A., Canada, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Brazil, and Uzbekistan. As usual, we started guiding people to Asakusa Culture Tourist Information Center in order to see better views of Asakusa areas from its rooftop. Right after we left the information building, we moved into Sensoji compounds by passing through the famous gates, Kaminariomon Gate (Thunder Gate) and...

2018.11.29

Asakusa

ENJOYED EARLY WINTER IN THE EAST GARDENS OF THE IMPERIAL PALACE (NOVEMBER.24)

Thank you for joining Tokyo Free Working Tour on Nov.24th. We welcomed a total of 24 guests from: US(10), Canada(2), UK(1), Spain(2), Tunisia(1), Singapore(4), Manila(2) and　Australia(2). Last Saturday was a bit cloudy and cold but it was still an enjoyable tour course with beautiful autumn views. In some areas of the garden, we could enjoy cherry blossoms. Of course cherry blossom season is in spring but this cherry blooms two times per year. There are lots of special flora and fauna inside the...

2018.11.28

East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

The leaves on the Japan’s first avenue are turning yellow(November 18)

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...

2018.11.19

Meiji Shrine and Harajuku