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Tour Report on Meiji Jingu Shrine and Harajuku Tour, 19 May 2024; Is Shintoism a “Religion”?

Thank you very much to the guests who joined the tour. The weather was cloudy but the temperature was moderate just as this time of the year. On this tour we hosted 9 guests from USA, India, Singapore and New Zealand. We hope everybody enjoyed the tour and conversation with us and other guests. As promised, group photos and snapshots are attached to remember the fun times we had. As we explain on the tour, Meiji Jingu shrine is where Meiji Emperor and Empress are enshrined as the divine gods. Th...

2024.05.20

Meiji Shrine and Harajuku

Tour Report of the East Garden of the Imperial Palace on 18 May 2024, Guiding in the area where Japan’s governance has taken place for centuries

Many thanks to the guests who participated in the tour to the East Garden of the Imperial Palace located just next to Japan's governmental section. On the tour of the day we hosted 13 guests from India, Australia, Canada, France, and Singapore. The weather was unusually hot in this time of the year. So we try to get into shaded areas while guiding. We hope everybody enjoyed the tour and conversation with us and other guests. As promised, group photos and snapshots are attached to remember the f...

2024.05.20

East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

Beautiful carps are waiting, too. Tour report on May 14, 2024 at East Garden of the Imperial Palace

Thank you for joining our tour at the East Garden of the Imperial Palace on May 14, 2024. We welcomed 15 guests from Canada, Poland, Spain, USA, Germany and Singapore We hope everybody enjoyed the tour and conversation with us and other guests. Courtesy of our guests, we can post the photos of today’s tour which might interest you to join next time. Group A Group B Group C On previous day, we had a heavy rain in Tokyo. Today, someone had a strong luck to attract a very fine weather. The period b...

2024.05.15

East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

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