This tour covers must-see spots for first visitors. If you don't have a special idea about Tokyo-tour, it's the best tour. You can learn about Japan a lot through eating, visiting museums, strolling in a Japanese garden, having some match-green tea, and visiting the most popular temple, Sensouji temple in Asakusa.
You will visit Tsukiji food market, too.
Tsukiji Honganji temple near Tsukiji station
You can see a lot of Japanese fish including tuna and vegetables.
Looking around the market you can learn about Japanese food culture.
If you are hungry, will you try some sushi, seafood barbecue, Waguy stake, Japanese omelet, etc?
It's a Japanese strolling garden, simulating to nature. Seeing the beautiful view you can have some matcha-green tea with Japanese sweets
It's the oldest and most popular temple in Tokyo . You can have a lunch, tempura, sukiyaki, sushi, or just grabbing snacks. At a shopping street, you can find something good for souvenirs, (Japanese chopsticks, paper, fans, kimono, swords, good luck charms)
It has National museum (a lot of Japanese art), Ueno zoo, Ueno park (full of cherry blossoms, and a temple), old style- shopping streets( sake-or beer stalls with grilled skewed chicken, rahmen, sushi bowl) Cheers!
End of tour
At Ueno (if you want a sending service to your hotel additional 1000yen and the transportation fee)
This tour is a walking tour. We use a lot of public transportations. The transportation in Tokyo is very complicated like a maze. However your guide will take you to the destination smoothly.
In Tsukiji you can learn Japanese food culture and of course you can eat nice Japanese sweets and buy a knife with your name on.
Hamarikyuu Japanese garden is a strolling garden. It was made 400 years ago as a shogun detached house. You can learn Japanese history. You can have some matcha-green tea with Japanese sweets seeing the breathtaking view.
Taking cruise from Hamarikyuu to Asakusa Sensouji-temple, you can see beautiful views from the boat.
Asakusa Sensouji-temple is a buddhist temple. I will explain about Japanese religion. It also has a nice shopping streets. I can give some good advice about souvenirs to your country.
Ueno has National museum where you can see old buddhas and pictures, Ueno zoo, very big park (cherry blossoms are beautiful) where many people have a picnic.
It has also old shopping streets. There are a lot of stalls where you can drink sake or beer with skewed chickens, sushi, rahmen etc. You can talk to people there with my help. Enjoy communicating with Japanese people. Cheers!
guide fee,
transportation fee including me, about 1000 yen per person; lunch; entrance fee (Hararikyuu garden)
Depending on my availability I could also guide you on Mondays, so please send me a message. Thanks!
Some shops in Tsukiji Market is not opened on Wednesday and Sunday.
Some shops in Tsukiji is not opened Sundays and Wednesdays.
If it's raining, we might change the itinerary.
You need entrance fee for Hamarikyuu garden, 300yen and National museum 1000yen.
Some shops accept only cash, Japanese yen.
For the one-day transportaion fee is about 1000yen per person.
My teen son and I took a tour of the Tsukiji Market and Sensou-ji Temple in Asakusa with Tomoko. Tomoko met us in our hotel lobby, and balanced historical information with traditions and local knowledge along the way. We had a very enjoyable and comfortable time with Tomoko!
Thank you for your wonderful review. It was a wonderful weather and I also enjoyed guiding you. I was happy you were able to eat fatty tuna in Tsukiji market without making a line for a long time. I have only daughters. I envy you because you have a good son. Have a nice trip in Japan. Thank you.
Tomoko was an excellent guide. She was very obliging and happily added to our itinerary so we could see as much as possible. Her English was very good and she made our day in Tokyo special. Rena and John
Thank you for the nice review, Rena-san, and John-san. You are a nice couple. Rena-san is interested in Japan. I enjoyed talking to you. John-san is always kind and a gentleman. It was my pleasure to guide you. Thank you and see you again in Tokyo!
My husband and I were lucky to be guided by Tomoko during our recent trip to Tokyo. On two half-day-tours she showed us a whole lot of fascinating landmarks such as Shibuya, Meiji Shrine, Omotesando, Ueno, Senso-ji Temple and Asakusa. She knows everything about history, culture, food etc. and with her help we discovered so many things we would never have noticed on our own. Her timing and navigation were perfect, and though we walked a lot it was never exhausting as she took care to include some relaxing strolls through Tokio's beautiful parks. She also went out of her way to help us with some unusual shopping (musical instruments). Thank you, Tomoko, for a delightful and memorable experience!
Siv-san, thank you for the wonderful review. You are a nice couple, and I enjoy guiding you in Tokyo. You have a lot of knowledge about Japan and are interested in Japanese history and culture. It was my pleasure to talk about Japan to you. I hope you enjoy the sound of, the musical instruments, hyoushigi and orin! I'm looking forward to seeing you in Tokyo again someday. Thank you, Tomoko
Tomoko was a pleasure to tour with... early on we exchanged messages about how we wanted to spend our time, she was very receptive to our ideas to tour the back-streets of Asakusa and even helped us getting tickets ahead of time for the Sumida River Cruise, a huge WOW, we had time after the cruise to tour the Hama-Rykuen gardens and Tomoko recommended we have tea at the tea house there - so enjoyable thank you so much for your insights and knowledge and help!!
Terri-san, thank you for the wonderful review. You are a nice group. I enjoyed guiding you. The tea at Hamarikyuu Garden was refreshing. I hope you enjoyed the tour in Japan with your friends. Hopefully, you will revisit Japan. Thank you. Tomoko