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- Off the Beaten Path
Exploring Tokyo's Unique Neighborhoods
Joined 2022
You can experience everyday Tokyo in a way that ordinary tours cannot. You may unexpectedly enjoy conversations with locals. You can learn about history and culture among them. You can also enjoy eating and walking around.
Itinerary
This itinerary can be customized to meet your needs and preferences. Send me a message with your requests!
Meeting Point
At your hotel
At your hotel
Brief explanation of Japanese culture and history using PDF files.
Nippori station
We will eat our way through the Yanaka shopping district. You can enjoy delicious Japanese sweets shops and yakitori (skewered chicken barbeque)
Sudou park
Old Japanese garden
Nezu shrine
The shrine is said to have been founded nearly 1,900 years ago and is one of the ten shrines in Tokyo.
Yanaka cemetery
Yanaka Cemetery is also well known for its cherry blossoms. The central garden path is commonly called "Sakura Dori," and when the cherry blossoms bloom on the branches that cover the path, it looks like a tunnel of cherry blossoms.
Ueno park
Cultural facilities such as the Tokyo National Museum, the National Museum of Western Art, the National Museum of Nature and Science, and the Ueno Zoo are concentrated in the area.
At your hotel
Ending Point
I will take you where you want to go.
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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, hotel pick-up
transportation fee (you and the guide), lunch, entrance fee
Tour Important Information
• Please let me know if you have any food allergies or restrictions.
• This tour involves a lot of walking, so make sure to wear comfortable shoes.
• Several places we will visit do not accept credit cards, so please bring cash.
Hotel pick-up and drop-off are limited to within the 23 wards of Tokyo.
As you tour the neighborhoods of average Japanese people, if you are lucky you will meet them and get a glimpse into their daily lives.
Important message from the supplier
I can guide you to Hakone, Kamakura and Nikko.
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
Joined 2022
About Tour Guide Toyokuni Y.
Hello everyone. Please call me Toyo. Welcome to Tokyo. I have lived in Tokyo for 50 years in total.
I was born and raised in Hokkaido northernmost of four major islands in Japan.
Hokkaido has unique cultures and atmosphere which is similar to cities in western countries compare to other areas in Japan.
I was yearning for traditional Japanese culture and history. So I started lived in Tokyo after graduating from high school.
I can show you around Tokyo both visitors and residents’ point of view.
I had worked many foreign countries, and everybody was very kind and helpful to me very occasion there. I would like to return you of this kindness.
Tokyo offers variety of wonderful tourist attractions, cuisines, modern and traditional cultures including historical buildings etc.
I am sure you can enjoy the refine and subtle Japanese cultures of Tokyo. So Let' enjoy downtown Tokyo with me!
$194/ per group
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