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Tour Report on May.20,2018 – Meiji Shrine and Harajuku

Today, we welcomed 10 guests from UK, Russia, Canada, and Australia. Everyone enjoyed the peaceful scenery of the Meiji Shrine before diving into the mayhem of Harajuku Takeshita street. Second half of this tour is about Harajuku. Takeshita street is a 400 meter long street starting from the JR Harajuku Station. It is particularly well known as a trendy shopping street lined with alternative colorful clothing stores, costumes,colorful fun food shops such as crepes, candies, and ice cream for tre...

2018.05.23

Meiji Shrine and Harajuku

Tour Report on 19 May 2018, East Garden of the Imperial Palace

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...

2018.05.21

East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

Tour Report on May 13 in Asakusa area

Thank you for joining our Tokyo Free Walking tour. On that day, May 13, we had two times of tour-10 A.M and 1 P.M. Although the weather condition was not so good, we welcomed totally around ten guests from the different corners of the world; U.S.A., Swiss, Poland, Rumania, Germany, Austria. We started by introducing ourselves and giving our brief orientation about this tour and went to Asakusa Information Center in order to see better views of the Asakusa areas. This is because the rooftop of th...

2018.05.15

Asakusa

TOUR REPORT ON MAY 12TH, 2018 (AFTERNOON TOUR), EAST GARDEN OF THE IMPERIAL PALACE

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...

2018.05.14

East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

TOUR REPORT ON MAY 12TH, 2018 (MORNING TOUR), EAST GARDEN OF THE IMPERIAL PALACE

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...

2018.05.13

East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

Tour Report on May 6, 2018 at Meiji Shrine and Harajuku

Many thanks for joinig our tour at Meiji Shrine and Harajuku on May 6. We had seven guests from America,Australia,Spain and Chile. Some of the guestshad participated in our tour at the East Gardens of the Imperial Palace on the previous day which we appreciate very much. We all enjoyed walking at the quiet Shrine and bustling Harajuku. Meiji Shrine looks like a natural forest but actually it was artificially designed. When the forest was created 100 years ago, the area was merely a wasteland bel...

2018.05.08

Meiji Shrine and Harajuku

TOUR REPORT ON 5-MAY, 2018, THE EAST GARDEN OF THE IMPERIAL PALACE

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...

2018.05.07

East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

Tour Report on 3 May 2018, Morning Tour to the East Garden of the Imperial Palace

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...

2018.05.04

East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

TOUR REPORT ON APRIL 26, 2018 IN ASAKUSA

Thank you for joining to “Tokyo Free Walking Tour - Asakusa Route” on April 26. We welcomed 12 guests from Argentina, Austria, Canada, India, Portugal and USA.　It was a lovely sunny day though was rather hot. But there was a light breeze which was very pleasant. Asakusa is one of the most popular districts in Tokyo for both local and overseas visitors. The area is always crowded with people thus we usually divide guests into small groups so that guests could enjoy our guiding and interactive com...

2018.04.30

Asakusa

TOUR REPORT ON 28-April, 2018, THE EAST GARDEN OF THE IMPERIAL PALACE

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....

2018.04.29

East Gardens of the Imperial Palace