Tokyo Free Walking Tour®

Tour Report on Dec. 1th at the Meiji shrine and Harajuku

Thank you for your joining our tour today.We welcomed 8 guests from many foreign countries, such as CANADA, COLUMBIA, BELGIUM, MALAYSIA. Today in Tokyo the weather was moderate, so 8 guests could enjoy this walking tour. Here in the Meiji shrine seasonal special events such as 7.5.3　event, chrysanthemum show, flower arrangement show, ancient martial arts events, finished. Now in the Meiji shrine quiet atmosphere returned． By the way I want to review autumn events this year. In this autumn even...

2019.12.02

Meiji Shrine and Harajuku

Illumination Spots in Tokyo: The East Garden of the Imperial Palace, 30th Nov 2019

Thanks to all the guests for walking and talking with us on 30th November! We welcomed 12 guests from US, Philippine, Israel, German, and Sweden. The Imperial East Garden area is crowed with people visiting this area to look the Daijokyu ceremonial building, but guests enjoyed walking and learned about Japanese history. In today’s report, I’d like to introduce the illumination spots of this year in Tokyo that I couldn’t answer well to the tour guest a few weeks before. (1) Shibuya Park Street to...

2019.12.01

East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

How do you enjoy Japan’s autumn colours in reasonable ways? – Tour report of the East Gardens of the Imperial Palace, 28th November 2019

Many thanks to 3 guests joining our weekday tour. It was a cold and drizzling day, but 2 guests from Germany and 1 from Canada came to Tokyo Station. Thank you so much. We enjoyed walking and talking during the 2-hour tour. My daughter, who is also one of the guides in Tokyo Free Walking Tour, has started working in the southeast of Osaka. She lives near Horyu-ji Temple, the very first World Heritage in Japan registered in 1993. My daughter and I visited the temple last week and were strongly im...

2019.12.01

East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

The Greater Gate at Sensoji Temple (Asakusa and Ueno Park tour on November 24)

Thank you so much for choosing our tours in Asakusa and Ueno Park on November 24. We had 26 visitors from Sweden, UK, Ireland, Italy, Canada, America, Singapore, Malaysia and Australia. I hope you enjoyed walking with us and particularly appreciate the fact that some of you consecutively joined our tours for two days. You might have seen a big gate in front of the Sensoji Temple Main Hall. Hozomon Gate is larger and more spectacular than the famous Kaminarimon Gate at the entrance. The upper le...

2019.11.25

AsakusaUeno Park

A GOOD DAY IN THE EAST GARDEN OF THE IMPERIAL PALACE (23rd November)

Thank you for joining our tour visiting the East Garden of the Imperial Palace on November 23rd. We welcomed as many as 15 people from U.S.A., Malaysia, Spain, UK, and Canada. Being a little bit late, leaves of Tokyo area begin to color to yellow and red. Although we had rain which is rare in this season, scenery of these colored trees matches modern buildings and remains of old Edo castle (stone wall and moat et...

2019.11.25

East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

Shinto ceremony, colorful leafs, Imperial Palace and East Garden is dramatically changing day by day!! Nov.20, weekday tour

Many many thanks to our guests joining our weekday tour this day. It was a chilly, windy morning but we were so delighted to welcome 10 guests from U.S.A, U.K, Germany, Ireland, Holland and Australia. We could explore the East Garden with newly dressy autumn colored trees in bright yellow. slighty red, and time just flew with a lot of talks with our amazing guests. I guess this day was the last day we could enjoy the garden in a "peaceful atmosphere"for a while...since from the next day(Nov.21-D...

2019.11.21

East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

Shichi-Go-San, chrysanthemum and wedding at Meiji Shrine (November 17)

On behalf of our guides I just wanted to send a quick report to say thank you for coming along to our tour to Meiji Shrine and Harajuku on November 17. We welcomed 13 people from America, Mexico, Peru, Switzerland, Israel and Australia. I hope all of you enjoyed yourselves in the absolutely wonderful weather. We were fascinated by the cute children in pretty dresses of Shichi-Go-San celebration at the ages of three-and seven-year-old girls and five-year-old boys. The display of the beautiful chr...

2019.11.18

Meiji Shrine and Harajuku

AUSPICIOUS AUTUMN DAY : ASAKUSA & UENO PARK TOUR ON NOV.10th

We Tokyo-Free-Walking-Tour welcomed cumulative total number of 17 guests from UK(6), Canada(2), Spain(2), Argentine(2), Singapore(2), Columbia(1), Germany(1) and India(1) to Asakusa morning / afternoon tour & Ueno Park tour held on Nov. 10th Sunday. We appreciate a lot for all of the guests joining our tours and would like to express special thanks to the guests who joined plural tours of us. And also, we hope everyone enjoyed our tours! The day was full of bright sunlight and comfortable t...

2019.11.12

AsakusaUeno Park

Tour Report of the East Garden of the Imperial Palace on Nov 9th : Perfect fall season tour with beautiful natures.

Thank you for joining our tour to the East garden of the Imperial Palace on Nov 9th. The weather was just perfect for a walking tour with typical fall blue sky and clean air in Japan, 17℃/63℉, no wind. We welcomed 27 guests from Argentina, Luxembourg, Lithuania, U.K., Columbia, Germany, Singapore, U.S.A., Netherlands and Romania. The tour was run by 3 groups with a few guides. This day, our tour course was forced a bit irregular because of National Festival to celebrate the throne of the new Emp...

2019.11.10

East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

Tour Report of the East Garden of the Imperial Palace on Nov., 2; Come and Get to Know Japan through TFWT Tour

Welcoming 11 guests from various countries; Argentina(2), Australia(1), Canada(1), Germany(2), Singapore(2), Spain(2), Ukraine(1), we have held the tour to the East Garden of the Imperial Palace in 4 groups. It was relatively a small number guests today regardless of the good weather in the good season. But each group enjoyed the tour with a lot of free talks in between the guide spots. We appreciate all the guests for choosing Tokyo Free Walking Tour. We hope your safe trips for the rest of ...

2019.11.04

East Gardens of the Imperial Palace