Thank you for coming our regular tour of the East Garden of the Imperial Palace on August 18. It was cool and fine day, just like the beginning of autumn. We had a good tour under the best weather condition. We welcomed 7 guests from Israel, Spain, Slovenia and USA. We were so happy to have met them.We divided the guests into three groups. In the East Garden of the Imperial Palace there were fewer people than usual because of summer vacation season in Japan. The East Garden of the Imperial Palac...

7th of August is Risshu in Japanese calendar, which means beginning of autumn. In contrast to the implication of the name, we had another day over 33 degree on 11th of August. It is our big pleasure that we welcomed 18 guests from US, UK, Singapore, Spain, Portuguese, and China. We spent a good time together on such a hot day. As always, we started from Tokyo station, and we walked through tall buildings. It is fascinating to see mixture of modern and historical sight at one glance. We carefully...

It has been an unusually hot summer. Despite the heat, tourists continue to visit Japan to enjoy holidays. On our tour to the East Garden of the Imperial Palace on August 4, 15 guests from 9 countries joined us. Thank you so much. It was another hot day with high temperature up to 35 degrees, so we chose to walk and stay in the shades of trees as much as possible, took longer rests at air conditioned rest houses to reduce the risk of heat stroke. We were healed by the gentle wind coming through ...

Luckily, scorching heat seemed to sooth down after lasting for 20 days. But what came next was an "unpredictable typoon". We fixed our eyes on the weatherforcast anxiously but were happy to draw a conclusion that we would be able to conduct our tour at the last minute since the storm would not hit us during the tour and the transportation was in usual operation. Despite such a weather condition, it was our huge pleasure meeting each of our guests. We had an AM tour and an PM tour this day and we...

Many thanks to our weekday tour guests of 24th July at the East garden of the Imperial palace. We welcomed 8 people from Switzerland, Russia, Germany, France, Greece, Italy, and Israel. It was a terrible hot weather. Before starting the tour the temperature showed 34 degrees. At first we worried about heat shock in this bad condition, but our tour was much better than we had expected. During the tour we chose to do our guiding In the shades, like under the trees or inside a rest house. Fortunate...

Thanks to all the guests for joining the tour and having a good time with us on 21st July! We welcomed 34 guests and divided into 3 groups. It was extremely hot, the temperature got over 35 C, so we walked in the shades as much as possible and recommended guests to drink water at every water tap facilities. This summer season reminds me of the Bird Man Rally Contest which is held at Lake Biwa of Hikone city in Shiga prefecture. Rule of this contest is to fly by only human power with a handmade p...