Osaka Tenjinbashitsuji 3-hour Walking Tour
This tour covers a guided walk through Osaka’s oldest shopping arcade. As such it is a wide palette of cultural and historical features which are otherwise impossible to find in other parts of Osaka.
Itinerary
This itinerary can be customized to meet your needs and preferences. Send me a message with your requests!
Meeting Point
Tenjinbashitsuji Entrance
- Located about 200m north from Tenjinbashi Bridge.
Tenjinbashitsuji Shopping Arcade
After meeting, we will delve inside of the arcade itself and I will speak to you about various shops, history and cultural meanings connected to it.
Osaka Tenmangu Shrine
Tenmangu shrine is one of the oldest shrine types in all of Japan. Being the very reasons of Tenjinbashitsuji’s existence and the center of Japan’s third biggest yearly festival Tenjin Matsuri, it is a place that cannot be missed.
Ogimachi Park
A one-and-only open wide-space park in northern Osaka, it offers a relatively quiet oasis in the bustling city. I will explain its history and we will see its atmosphere.
Temma Ichiba
An adjacent market - a lively hub for Osaka culture and fresh food. Same as the arcade itself, it changes with progression of time and becomes especially lively and buzzing during early night hours.
Osaka Municipal Housing Museum
A second important “facility” of high cultural importance (after Tenmangu Shrine), it covers many aspects of Japanese by-gone life and history and for example also experience of walking a real life-size 16th century town replica.
Ending Point
End of the Tenjinbashitsuji street (7-Chome area)
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This tour can be customized to meet your needs and preferences. Click below to send me a message with your requests.
Inclusions & Exclusions
Guide fee
Transportation to the place - cca 300-600¥
Taxi to the place - cca 2000¥
Food bought at the venue - cca 1000¥
Temple votive tablets and temple lucky charms - 300-1000¥
(None od the above mentioned is compulsory of course at not buying anything will not negatively effect work or effort of guide)
If you decide to visit the Museum of Housing and Living, entrance fee will cost you extra cca 1000¥ which is not included in the price. Guide will not accompany you in this case.
Due to this tour being short, guide will not have lunch with you, but may join you for a drink or coffee paid by himself
Tour Important Information
This tour involves a moderate amount of walking.
Please let me know if you have any food allergies.
This tour is wheelchair accessible.
Important message from the supplier
Hello everyone! Please feel free to send me requests with dates and your travel schedules. I’ll do my best to accommodate your wishes.
Cancellation Policy
- Free cancellation - 8 days prior to meeting time
- 50% Refund - 3 to 7 days prior to meeting time
- No Refund - Within 2 day(s) prior to meeting time
About Tour Guide Ondrej R.
Dear Travellers! My name is Ondrej and I have been living in Kyoto for six years. I’m currently conducting tours in English and Czech languages.
My hometown is Prague, Czech Republic, but I have left it behind years ago to live in Japan forever.
In my young years, I did a wide portfolio of various sports including soccer, futsal, skateboarding, cycling, boxing and athletics (both competition/ hobby level), so I can say that I am a sportsman. However, I reached my biggest successes at chessboard - playing the highest youth chess league of my country and finally attaining a chess coach licence.
At the academic level, I studied Human Sciences combined with Natural Sciences at University.
My primary goal is to satisfy your needs in a new city as for what you’d like to see. Based on a given venue, I focus on incorporating its meaning into a complete/ bigger picture of the whole culture and historical system.
If you’re not sure, I’m always happy to build a convenient tour plan involving appropriate amount of walking and transfers.
I have been raising my children in Kyoto for six years and realizing that traveling with children may sometimes be a challenge, I invite tours with children as well.
I have experience working with and guiding people from all over the world. Kyoto is a precious Japanese artifact and it is filled with unique places and cultural values and heritages.
Osaka offers a wide array of cultural meanings and cuisine delicacies, as well as hidden corners and pleasurable views.
I also love to take my clients to cities of Nara and Uji as they are so important for understanding the core of Japanese soul.
Please contact me to book, customize or just inquire regarding tours.
Once you are ready, we can discuss which of yours or mines favorite places we visit. Until then, have a good day and travel safe wherever you go.
$89/ per group
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