Tokyo Free Walking Tour®

Tour Report on Jan. 20(Meiji Shrine and Harajuku)/Ueno Park Tour on Feb.11

Many thanks for joining our tour to Meiji Shrine and Harajuku area on January 20. Weather was perfect. We welcomed seven friendly guests from Australia,Portugal and America.I hope all of you refreshed your body and mind at the Shrine in the beginning of 2019. On our tour route there is Ota Memorial Museum of Art specializing in Ukiyo-e wood block printing between Takeshita Street and Omotesando street. They have 12,000 pieces and change the exhibition almost every month. During the Edo period a ...

2019.01.22

Meiji Shrine and HarajukuUeno Park

Tour to the East Garden, 19 January 2019, The Year of New Era

Many thanks to 29 guests who joined the tour from Singapore, Brazil, Australia, Argentina, Canada, Indonesia, India, Italy, USA, Russia, and Portugal on that day. The weather was fine and not too cold for 2 hour walking tour. We are actually very proud of welcoming such wonderful guests from all over the world. In this tour route we walk through Japan's heart area like Capitol Hill in Washington, Kremlin in Moscow or Buckingham Palace & Westminster in London. The tour route is not just special f...

2019.01.20

East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

Tour Report on Jan. 12. 2019 (The East Garden of the Imperial Palace)

Thank you for joining our tour visiting the East Gardens of the Imperial Palace on January 12th. We welcomed 19 people from Australia (16), U.S.A.(1), Canada (1), Japan (1). This time we have a lot of Australian guests, who I hope enjoy Japan’s winter particularly skiing. According to weather forecast it is bad weather, but we are not caught in the rain. Usually plum blossoms start to bloom in February and they are a symbol of coming the spring. Some of the plum trees in the Imperial Palace East...

2019.01.15

East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

Tour Report on January 13(Asakusa) . Ueno Park Tour kicks off soon

Thank you so much for your participation in our tour in Asakusa on January 13. This is our first Asakusa tour in 2019. We welcomed five people from Australia and Italy. I hope all of you enjoyed our walking tour in spite of the congestion of the worshippers visiting Sensoji Temple in the New Year period. Another walking tour at Ueno Park in Tokyo is scheduled on February 11 which will be referred at the end. Komagatado Hall is a vermillion building located within 7 to 8 minutes walk from Sensoji...

2019.01.14

Asakusa

Happy New Year! TOUR REPORT ON JAN.5 (EAST GARDEN OF THE IMPERIAL PLACE)

Happy New Year to all of our friends in various places in the world. We appreciate your having keen interest in Japanese culture, history, customs, and people in 2018, and we hope you to have more in 2019. Year 2019 has just started, and our free walking tour also stared its regular operation. January 5th is the day of our first tour in 2019, and we welcomed 24 guests from Australia, Argentina, Singapore, Canada, UK, Taiwan, Denmark, and US. Thank you for sharing good time with us in such a wond...

2019.01.07

East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

Tour Report on Jan. 6 (Meiji Jingu Shrine and Harajuku Tour)

Thank you for joining our 1st Meiji Jingu Shrine & Harajuku Tour in 2019. We welcomed 8 guests from Australia and Germany. <Group A: 3 guests and 2 guides> <Group B: 1 family and 4 guides> From Jan 1st to 3rd, more than 300,000 people had visited the Meiji Jingu Shrine to make wishes for the coming year. We could feel the special atmosphere of the busiest shrine in Japan. We Tokyo Free Walking Tour is going to have the 10th anniversary in this year! From now on, we will keep doing our best to pr...

2019.01.06

Meiji Shrine and Harajuku

BUDDHIST AND SHINTO DEITIES ARE WAITING FOR THE NEW YEAR SEASON, the 23rd of December, Asakusa

Thank you for joining our Tokyo Free Walking Tour in Asakusa. On the day of our two-guided tours, the 23rd of December, we welcomed 22 guests on our walking tour. These people came from different corners of the world, including Malaysia, Switzerland, Philippine, U.S.A. and U.K. The hectic and restless atmosphere in Japan signals that the year-end festivity has finally started. In Asakusa, most of the streets are packed with the influx of holiday shoppers, tourists and Buddhist devotees. An iconi...

2018.12.24

Asakusa

Tour Report on Dec. 22 (The East Garden of the Imperial Palace)

On 22nd of December 2018, we had the last tour to The East Garden of The Imperial Palace for this year. Despite the cold rainy weather, we had 15 guests from Australia, Canada, Philippines, India and China. We are thankful to all of them for attending our tour in the bad weather. This year, we can still enjoy the beautiful autumn foliage. As strolling along the path of the East Garden, we were sometimes greeted by the gingko’s dazzling yellow and maple’s stunning red. By the way, today is 23rd o...

2018.12.22

East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

Tour Report on Dec.18 (The East Garden of the Imperial Palace weekday tour)

We had two guests from Germany and Singapore joining our weekday tour at the East Garden of the Imperial Palace on Dec.18 . It was a beautiful sunny day to enjoy the colorful leaves of ginkgo trees and maple trees that still remained in the beginning of winter . As it was a weekday morning tour , we found few visitors walking around . Therefore , we had enough time to appreciate not only peaceful surroundings but also the exhibition of the Imperial collections at the Sannomaru Shozokan Museum . ...

2018.12.20

East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

THE SHINTO DEITY CALMLY WELCOME AN INFLUX OF VISITORS – the 16th of December, Harajuku

Thank you for joining our Tokyo Free Walking tour in Harajyuku areas. On the day of December 16, with a low temperature and overcast sky, we welcomed eighteen guests from different regions like U.S.A., Australia, Canada, Israel, Germany and U.K. Finally, December has come. The hectic year-end holiday season undeniably brings us restless times and drives us into engaging into piles of work and commitments. In Japanese households, people start their extensive year-end cleaning tasks, and in the wo...

2018.12.19

Meiji Shrine and Harajuku