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TOUR REPORT ON APRIL 22, 2018 IN ASAKUSA

Thank you for joining our Tokyo Free Walking. On that day, April 22, we were honored to welcome 19 guests to our walking tour. These people came from different regions of the world, including U.S.A., U.K., Israel, Canada, Italy, Malaysia, and Germany. Apparently, we experienced a windfall condition which was higher temperature than that of seasonal ones. As we started our tour, the temperature seemed to increase more than 25 degrees and it completely allowed us to wear sweatshirts. Normally, the...

2018.04.25

Asakusa

TOUR REPORT ON APRIL 24TH, 2018 (WEEKDAY TOUR) EAST GARDENS OF IMPERIAL PALACE

Thank you very much for joining our weekday tour to the Imperial Palace East Gardens on April 24th. We welcomed 11 guests from Canada, Germany, Israel, Italy and USA. We divided our guests into 3 groups. It was cloudy but it was a good day to walk around the gardens. We hope all of you enjoyed the tour. We could see a lot of flowers in the gardens, such as wisterias, azaleas, and iris japonicas. We also enjoyed seeing new green leaves. Cherry blossom season has ended in most parts of Japan, but ...

2018.04.25

East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

TOUR REPORT ON APRIL 15, 2018 AT MEIJI SHRINE AND HARAJUKU

On that day, April 15, we were honored to welcome 13 guests to our walking tour. These people came from different corners of the world, including U.S.A., Australia, Brazil, Singapore and Israel. Springtime, has finally reached its peak, so most of the cherry blossoms have reached the height of their blossoming. Therefore, we can no longer see any blossoming in certain parts of Tokyo. However, in a sacred place called the Meiji Jingu, a relaxing evergreen forest can fascinate and impress us inste...

2018.04.16

Meiji Shrine and Harajuku

Tour Report on 14 April 2018, East Garden of the Imperial Palace

We could welcome 59guests amazingly although cherry blossoms season was over. We were so grateful having such a so many guests! Here are our group photos. See below, The East Garden of the Imperial Palace has many kinds of cherry blossoms. Most of them were over. They are at their bests at the beginning of April in a typical year, but it came earlier this year. It was at the end of March. I anticipated that I couldn’t show the guests cherry blossoms that some of our guests expected to see. I fel...

2018.04.16

East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

TOUR REPORT ON APRIL 8 AT MAIJI SHRINE AND HARAJYUKU

Thank you for joining our Meiji Shrine and Harajuku Tour on April 8. We were so happy to have met all 13 guests from U.S.A.,Australia,Brazil and Taiwan.The guests were devided into 3 groups and a few guides for each group. It was lovely day for walking tour and we enjoyed fresh air in the Shrine. The last half of the tour is walking around HARAJYUKU shopping district. This area is very busy and fantastic.We walk through TAKESITA-DORI(TAKESITA street) one of most famous street in Tokyo. It is ver...

2018.04.10

Meiji Shrine and Harajuku

Tour Report on 7 April 2018, East Garden of the Imperial Palace

Many thanks to the guests joining the tour. On that day we welcomed 38 people fromUSA, Israel, Australia, Nederland, Canada, Switzerland, Germany, Vietnam, Russia, Spain and France. We divided into 5 groups.The weather was cloudy and windy. From last week of last month, the most prominent cherry blossom tree called “Someiyoshino” started to come out and this week the trees were ending the blossoming. But instead some other species of cherry trees came out along with other spring flowers such as ...

2018.04.08

East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

TOUR REPORT ON APRIL 1, 2018 AT MEIJI JINGU SHRINE AND HARAJUKU

Under the perfect warm weather, we welcomed 35 guests!! They are from Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Mexico, Peru, Philippines, Singapore and US. The guests were separated into five groups so that eleven tour guides could have closer communication with each guest in small groups. We got together in front of the Ichino Torii Gate located right across the tiny bridge over JR Harajuku station, and began the tour on time, 10 am. After learning about how to go through "torii," i...

2018.04.03

Meiji Shrine and Harajuku

TOUR REPORT ON MARCH 31st (AFTERNOON TOUR) IMPERIAL PALACE EAST GARDENS

Thank you for joining our Tokyo Free Waling Tour on March 31st. We really enjoyed spending joyful time with more than 50 guests from all over the world. As the Inui Street in the Imperial Palace is open to the public from March 24 to April 1, the East Garden was also crowded with many people. Inui Street is open twice a year, the season of cherry blossoms and colored leaves. This time, we divided our guests into 5 groups. Nice weather, beautiful cherry blossoms and cheerful guests made us really...

2018.04.01

East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

TOUR REPORT ON MARCH 29TH(WEEKDAY TOUR) EAST GARDEN OF IMPERIAL PALACE

Thank you for joining our weekday tour of East Garden of Imperial Palace on March 29th. We were so happy to have met all 18 guests from U.S.A., Philippines, Australia, France, Canada, Sweden and UK. It was the perfect day to watch cherry blossoms in full bloom. Many people came to East Garden of Imperial Palace. It was a bit hot like early summer. Not only the cherry blossoms but also the azalea came out earlier than we expected. As you know, now we can enjoy “Hanami” at many places in Tokyo. Ue...

2018.03.31

East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

Tour report on March 24th (afternoon tour) Imperial Palace East Gardens

We appreciate you joined the tour of Imperial Palace East Gardens on March 24th (afternoon tour). Guides were really happy more than 65 people joined our tour, what a day ! I've never been so happy in my life. A lot of visitors enjoyed taking photos with full-bloomed cherry blossoms and kimonos. We prepare simple kimono costumes to enjoy taking photo at the end of our tour. Weeping cherry called “Shidarezakura” and Yoshino cherry called “Someiyoshino” were fully bloomed on the day. Yoshino cherr...

2018.03.27

East Gardens of the Imperial Palace