Former Residence of Great Artist in Yanaka & Ueno Free Tour [Cherry Blossom Viewing]
Joined 2017
At 9:00 am, meeting at your hotel - by train to Nippori station - Asakura Museum of Sculpture from 9:30 to 10:30 am - walking through retro shopping streets and lunch - walking through Ueno Park: several choices - JR Ueno station at 4:00 pm(break up)
Itinerary
This itinerary can be customized to meet your needs and preferences. Send me a message with your requests!
Meeting Point
At your hotel in the middle of Tokyo
Asakura Museum of Sculptures(masterpieces, Japanese-style garden and residence tour)
Walking in Yanaka, Nezu and Sendagi area (retro townscape and shopping streets)
Nezu Shrine(prestigious)
Ueno Park(museums, zoo and historical spots according to your requests)
Ending Point
JR Ueno station
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Inclusions & Exclusions
guide fee, hotel pick-up, guide transportation fee
- Your transportation fee(about 500 yen per person from the center of Tokyo)
- Lunch(about 1500 to 2000 yen per person)
- Entrance fee(Asakura Museum: 500 yen per person, Each Museum and zoo in Ueno Park: about 700 yen per person)
Tour Important Information
Asakura Museum is closed on Mondays and Thursdays. Museums and zoo in Ueno Park are closed on Mondays. The tour is carried out on foot in a relaxing manner.
Total distance of walking is approximately 4 kilometers.
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 2017
About Tour Guide Hiroyuki I.
As I am a 61 year old man, born in Tokyo, graduated from a university in Tokyo and worked for a leading paper wholesale company at its headquarters for 35 years, I am an Edokko or a native Tokyoite. I am familiar with various interesting places in Tokyo and the Kanto area such as historic spots, scenic beauty, entertainment, restaurants and so on. Although I basically provide several regular walking tours for visitors from abroad, I am willing to arrange your tour plan in a customized way according to your interest. If I receive your inquiry, I am ready to hear your interest and what you want to experience, and discuss your plan with you in advance.
Let's walk about in or around Tokyo!
Reviews
Div S.
Naritasan Shinshoji Temple & Naritasan Park Tour
Customized
“...a little of this & a little of that at the market plus the green tea is hard to beat. then the garden...the beauty of nature walking at the park is very unwinding.”
He has characteristics that tourist guides “must have”
Hiroyuki I.
Dear Div I am very pleased to hear you praise my personality, and you enjoyed walking on the shopping streets and through the park. There are many things to see and experience in Japan. I hope you will come to Japan again and we will see each other again. Thank you so much. Hiro
“Difficult Day In Nikko”
Hiroyuki is an amicable, pleasant guide whose English is good but not fluent. We had some questions that he clearly did not understand. Our trip to Nikko was not a success because Hiro was not prepared with a “Plan B’” in mind for the difficulties that we experienced. The difficulties were not his fault: a national holiday that created horrific problems and delays on public transportation and fog that prevented us from seeing 2 out of 3 sites in Nikko. We are 4 very active senior citizens but standing on trains and especially crammed busses for hours was not pleasurable. We could not even see the landscape. Adding the fact that it was foggy was a recipe for disaster. We finally made it to the ropeway and Hiro seemed surprised that we didn’t want to go up. There would be nothing to see in total fog! The situation was similar with the waterfall area. We did have a nice lunch but by the time we waited yet again for a packed bus, we decided to skip the shrine as it was already 3:30pm. Basically we traveled to Nikko and saw nothing but the train and bus stations! Much of this was not Hiro’s fault BUT much could have been mitigated by him doing the following: 1. Offer an option for private transportation in Nikko via taxi or van for a fee. 2. Check the weather conditions and have a plan for alternative activities. In our case he should have reversed his schedule so that we could have at least seen the shrine in town! He didn’t know about the fog…we don’t know the area but knew there were foggy conditions because we checked the weather prior to departure! We are experienced travelers and don’t stop because of weather! However, fog that obliterated 2 out of 3 sites plus transportation chaos meant an unfavorable experience.
Hiroyuki I.
Dear Debra Thank you very much for joining the tour to Nikko. I am very sorry that your precious day was spoiled by bad weather, traffic jams and my bad conduct. Hiroyuki
“Very beautifull waterfalls”
Hiroyuki was very friendly but sometimes a little hard to understand and we felt that if his grasp of english had been better he would have had a lot of knoledge to impart. The tour was wonderful and we took a lot of photos to remind us of the beauty of this area.
Hiroyuki I.
Dear Frans Thank you for joining the tour in the countryside to see waterfalls. I am very surprised to hear that you are very knowledgeable about Japan. I enjoyed accompanying you as a guide. Hiroyuki
$155/ per group
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