Many thanks to the guests who joined the tours of the day. On that day we hosted 13 people from Malaysia, Australia, South Africa, and Israel at Sensoji temple, Asakusa in the morning
and 4 people from USA, UK and Israel in Ueno Park in the afternoon.
The weather was cloudy and sometimes raining. But thanks to the cloudiness, the temperature was lowered so we didn’t feel hot at all.
We hope all of the guests enjoyed the tours and conversation with the guides. As promised photos taken during the tour are posted on this page to recall the fun memories we shared.
While our guests enjoy strolling the tour routes, we, the guides enjoy our guided tours because we can feel attached to the whole world. These days traveling abroad for Japanese has become very expensive. So when we communicate with foreign tourists, we are glad we can feel traveling abroad. We do not have to go out to foreign nations but foreign nations come to us. Foreign tourists have different background and perspectives to view Japanese landscape. We learn the difference and then such difference makes us feel like traveling abroad.
Interestingly enough, one of the guides of that day experienced the similar thing a day before the tour day. He went to the theme park, Tobu World Square in Nikko city, Tochigi prefecture, 2 hour-train ride from Asakusa Station. That is where 1/25th scale of miniatures of the world’s famous tourist sites are exhibited. Some of the sites are where he actually visited and recalled memories of the past.
Over there, you can do the around the world travel within 1 hour. The park also exhibits Japanese tourist sites,
including the sites we guided on the tour day.
All the beautiful sites are concentrated in that area so you can view the famous sites such as Tokyo Sky Tree (634 meter high), Tokyo Tower (333 meters high), Eiffel Tower (330 meters high) in Paris and Pyramids (148 meters high) in Cairo, Egypt at the same time. Very miraculous landscape!
Surely the size is very different from the actual sites but does the size matter? The important thing is how each one of the structures can give impression by its existence. It was like meeting with our guests who bring essence of their homelands.
Speaking of the size difference, on the Ueno tour route, our guests encountered the statue of Japan’s most historic scientist, Dr. Noguchi Hideo, whose figure is printed on former 1000 yen bill that had been issued until 2022 but are still circulated.
Since the statue was very big, you could imagine how big he was. But he was a short man compared to the average of modern Japanese men.
But his contribution to the medicine was huge. So such a big statue of him was erected there.
The size or distance is not important when we get to know among one another. The important thing is how we give impressions to feel existence of ourselves. Then we can say “It’s a small world.”
Tokyo Free Walking Tour can be the worldwide scale experience of such thing.
Why not join Tokyo Free Walking Tour to touch the souls of the world?
To our guest on October 1st – we’d love to hear your feedback!
We would appreciate it if you could leave your comments possibly with names of the guides you were with, on Tripadvisor or our Instagram/Facebook pages.
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(Posted by Masa Y.)