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Report of 12 May 2024 tours, Experience Paris in Asakusa and Ueno Park

Hello, everyone. I am Masa, one of the guides who hosted the Asakusa tour in the morning. I am reporting on tours of the day. As a tour guide for foreign guests, I realised it is important to know how our guests feel when they travel in Japan. Thus I traveled to one of the world's most famous tourist spots to take a glimpse of how foreign tourists view our country a few month ago. I included my analysis of this agenda in this report. Firstly, thank you very much to the guests who participated in...

2024.05.14

AsakusaUeno Park

East garden of Imperial palace tour on May 11

Thank you for choosing our tour at the East Garden of Imperial Palace on 11 th May. We welcomed 24 guests from US, UK, Australia, Ireland, India, Argentina, Iran and El Salvador. I hope all of you enjoyed and shared interesting conversations with us during the tour. As promised, group photos and snapshots are attached to remember the fun times we had. <Group A> <Group B> <Group C> In our tour, we head for castle palace area through three guard house. Second house is the biggest called Hyakunin-B...

2024.05.12

East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

Does even deities change his clothes for summer season…? : Tour Report of Meiji Shrine & Harajuku on May 5, 2024

Thank you so much for having choose our walking tour on May 5, 2024 at Meiji Shrine & Harajuku. We welcomed 11 guests from US, UK, Poland, Finland, Singapore and Argentina, and had a precious time with them. Here are many good pictures we took during the tour attached. We hope all you enjoy! Group A Group B Group C Group D At this day, Meiji shrine had one of the annual event called "Onzo-sai", which was for changing deities' clothes from winter ones to summers ones. Almost all priests of Meiji ...

2024.05.11

Meiji Shrine and Harajuku

Greenery Day: Tour Report of the East Garden of the Imperial Palace on May 4, 2024

Thank you for choosing our tour at the East Garden of the Imperial Palace on May 4, 2024. We welcomed 14 guests from Argentina, US, France, Canada, Germany, and Australia. I hope all of you enjoyed and shared interesting conversations with us during the tour. As promised, group photos and snapshots are attached to remember the fun times we had. Group A Group B Group C Group D It was a sunny day and perfect for our tour. The cherry blossom and azalea season has been over, but the iris season is c...

2024.05.04

East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

Ueno Toshogu Garden Spring Peony Festival, the Ueno Park tour on May 1

Thank you for joining the Ueno Park tour on May 1. We welcomed 4 people from Switzerland, Hong Kong and America. The weather was a little rainy and chilly. Nevertheless, we hope you enjoyed walking with us at the park. As promised, photos are posted as a memory. After cherry blossoms have fallen at Ueno Park, the peony flowers are now in full bloom at Ueno Toshogu Garden. The garden is one of the best peony gardens in Tokyo. Ueno Toshogu Peony Garden was opened in 1980 to commemorate the friends...

2024.05.01

Ueno Park

Nakizumo – Crying sumo. Do you know about this unique match? This is a tour report of Asakusa and Ueno on April 28th.

Many thanks for joining our tours at Asakusa and Ueno Park on April 14, 2024. We welcomed 26 guests from Canada, Italy, India, Holland, New Zealand, Malaysia, and the USA. It was a tremendous opportunity for us to meet wonderful guests from all over the world and to share interesting conversations. As promised, group photos and snapshots are attached so that you can remember the fun we had during the tour. Asakusa AM Group A Asakusa AM Group B Asakusa AM Group C Asakusa PM Group A Asakusa PM Gro...

2024.04.29

AsakusaUeno Park

A cruise ship to the Daimyo Gardens, the Asakusa tour on April 24

Thank you for joining our tour in Asakusa on April 24. 6 people were kindly with us from Australia, Taiwan and Canada in spite of the bad weather. Asakusa has a once-a-year festival called ‘Sanja Festival’ on May 17-19 this year. This is a spectacular festival and about 100 mikoshi portable shrines parade through the towns. It seems that people in Asakusa can’t wait for the festival. As promised various photos are posted as a memory. When visiting Asakusa, taking a sightseeing boat to Hamarikyu ...

2024.04.25

Asakusa

Tour Report of Meiji Shrine & Harajuku on April 21, 2024

Thank you to those who participated in the Tokyo Free Walking Tour (TFWT) at Meiji Shrine & Harajuku. We welcomed 8 guests from the USA, Canada, Australia, and Taiwan. We hope you all enjoyed and shared interesting and joyful conversations with each other during the tour. Group-A Group-B Group-C Unlike “Omikuji” (fortune telling slips) offered in most shrines, Meiji Shrine offers a very unique “Omikuji”. How unique? Most omikuji tell us good or bad luck concerning our daily life like health, mon...

2024.04.22

Meiji Shrine and Harajuku

Tour Report of the East Gardens of the Imperial Palace on Apr.20, 2024

Thank you for joining our tour! We welcomed 38 guests from France, Germany, Australia, Bulgaria, USA, Spain, Norway, UK, Canada, and Croatia. The cherry blossoms may be over but spring is still in full swing with colorful flowers in the Ninomaru Garden. We guides shared delightful moments with our guests. In our tour we talk about the feud between 2 high class samurais (Asano and Kira) and the consequence of the 47 Ronins. But do you know that there is a spin-off to this story? Let me introduce ...

2024.04.21

East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

Various flowers are in full bloom! Tour report of the East Gardens of the Imperial Palace on April 16.

Many thanks for joining us on our tour of the East Gardens of the Imperial Palace in the morning on April 16. We welcomed 20 guests from Italy, Canada, Germany, Lithuania, Morocco, Australia, and Taiwan. It was a tremendous opportunity for us to meet wonderful guests from all over the world and to share interesting conversations. As promised, group photos and snapshots are attached so that you can remember the fun we had during the tour. Group A Group B Group C Somei Yoshino, a cherry variety sa...

2024.04.17

East Gardens of the Imperial Palace