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Tokyo Private Tour - Golden-Gai in the daytime
Golden-Gai in the daytime
Tokyo Private Tour - Food floor of Isetan Department Store
Food floor of Isetan Department Store
Tokyo Private Tour - Hanazono Shrine
Hanazono Shrine
Tokyo Private Tour - Kabukicho night club district
Kabukicho night club district
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Godzilla is watching you
Tokyo Private Tour - Shinjuku Gyoen National Park
Shinjuku Gyoen National Park

Lost in Shinjuku Sanchome and Kabukicho! Tour

Highlights
Tokyo Tour Guide - Chiaki K.

Joined 2019

Chiaki K.
4.93 / 5
(123 reviews)
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Tokyo
English
4 hours
Private tour (only you and Chiaki K.)
Up to 6 people

Shinjuku is always the exciting city and have many faces. We visit the beautiful Shinjuku Gyoen garden, a sophisticated department store, a historical shrine, narrow back streets of bars and pubs and famous nightclub streets.

Itinerary

This itinerary can be customized to meet your needs and preferences. Send me a message with your requests!

09:00 AM

Meeting Point

At your hotel in Tokyo

Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden

It has a large and beautiful Japanese garden, two Western-style gardens and a green house. You can enjoy the changing scenery of the four seasons in the middle of the busy big city. Admission ¥500.

Isetan Department Store

The food floor of the department store is a unique place where you can find a variety of delicious Japanese and international food.

Hanazono-Jinja Shrine

The magnificent Shrine is dedicated to the god of entertainment and has mysterious Golden-Gai streets just behind it.

Golden-Gai

It is a small area composed of a network of six narrow alleys, connected by even narrower passageways. Over 200 tiny shanty-style bars and clubs are squeezed into this old looking streets.

Kabukicho

The area is famous as one of the busiest entertainment district in Japan.

Omoide Yokocho (Corner of Memory)

The area used to be a black market after the Second World War and now you will find many small and old stalls of yakitori, ramen and casual Japanese food along a narrow street.

Tokyo Metropolitan Government Observatory

The observatory is located on the 45th floor of the Government Building. you can enjoy a wonderful bird’s view of Tokyo skyscrapers for free. When the weather is nice and the air is clear, you may be able to see beautiful Mt. Fuji.

Ending Point

Any place you’d like

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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

What‘s included

Guide fee, Hotel pick-up, Guide’s transportation fee

What‘s not included

Your transportation fee, Lunch for you and guide, Admission fee (Shinjuku Gyoen, 500 yen per person)

Tour Important Information

You will see many aspects of Japanese people's real life. Shinjuku Gyoten Garden gives you an idea of beautiful traditional Japanese garden. The food floor of the department store is a unique place where you can find a variety of delicious Japanese and international food. The magnificent Hanazono Shrine has mysterious Golden-Gai streets just behind it, and Kabukicho is famous as one of the busiest entertainment district in Japan.

Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden is a large park. If you don't like to walk long, please let me know.

The garden is usually (but not always) closed on Mondays.

Important message from the supplier

If you stay in the central area of Tokyo or Chiba, I will pick you up and drop you off at your hotel or anyplace you like.

We will take public transportation and walk a lot so please wear comfortable shoes.

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
Tokyo Tour Guide - Chiaki K.

Joined 2019

Chiaki K.
4.93 / 5
(123 reviews)
Identity Verified
Interview-Based Quality Checks

About Tour Guide Chiaki K.

Welcome to Japan! My name is Chiaki. I’m a government licensed guide interpreter, a wife and mother of two grown-up children. I’ve been living in Tokyo for 30 years so I know the area well.

If you don’t want to miss popular “must see” places, wish to eat a variety of Japanese popular and delicious food, have particular interest in Japanese theatrical arts, architectures, gardens, tea ceremony and “kawaii” characters, or are tired of tourist spots and like to see the real life of people in Japan, I can help you.

My goal is to help you to make your stay in Japan as memorable and fulfilling as possible. If I can serve you to make your special trip more special, it will be my pleasure.


Reviews

Customized Tour of Tokyo

We had a wonderful tour experience of Tokyo with our tour guide, Chiaki. She created a customized itinerary for us based on sites we were interested in and she was fun and helpful and very knowledgeable. We highly recommend Chiaki for first time visitors to Japan.

Susan J.

Chiaki K.

Dear Susan, thank you so much for your recommendation! I’m so glad you enjoyed your Tokyo tour and that the itinerary matched your interests. It was such a fun day exploring together. I really appreciate you found me in the big ocean of websites! Hope you enjoy your trip in Japan! Thank you again!

Tokyo one-day tour

We had a great day in Tokyo with Chiaki. This was the first time we have used a private guided tour or GoWithGuide and we were very pleased with the experience. The booking was straightforward and everything on the day went smoothly thanks to Chiaki’s great planning. She was friendly, spoke great English and is clearly knowledgeable about the sites and also gave some interesting insights into Japan and Japanese life more generally, especially helpful for new visitors. We plan to use GoWithGuide again following this experience.

James H.

Chiaki K.

Dear James, thank you so much for your kind words! I’m really happy you enjoyed your first private tour experience and that we could spend such a fun day exploring Tokyo together. It was great having lunch at the rotating sushi restaurant with your girls and sharing a bit about everyday life in Japan. I hope you enjoy the trip to Kanazawa, Kyoto and Nagano. Please send my best wishes to Sandra and girls! Thank you again!

Wonderful tour!

Chiaki was a thoroughly knowledgeable and perfect guide, we moved across the city smoothly and Chiaki was great at making sure we were fully understanding what we were looking at at the shrines and temples but more than that she gave us insights into the Japanese customs and approach to life. We went to Mitsukoshi dept store food hall - think Harrods x 10 - it was dazzling in its variety of foods - we first went to the roof where Japanese people where barbecuing and having a wonderful time, we left our bags on the table to reserve our space and went to the basement to choose lunch - cannot imagine doing that in London! A wonderful day, so much knowledge, we glided through the day, very efficient planning, transferring between sites. Chiaki answered all our questions, helped us book tickets to Kanazawa, showed our grown up sons where to go for fun in the evening, took me to second hand kimono shops I would never have found! clearly loves her job, she moved along just at the right pace, well prepared with background information not just about the sites we were visiting but the history of Japan too. We thoroughly enjoyed the day! Chiaki can you message the addresses of those two kimono shops - I want to go again, they were so good - Many Thanks x x x

Robert S.

Chiaki K.

Dear Pauline and Robert, thank you so much for your beautiful and thoughtful review! I truly enjoyed spending the day with you and your family — it was such a pleasure to explore Tokyo together and share stories about Japanese culture and daily life. I’m so glad you enjoyed the mix of traditional sites and local experiences like Mitsukoshi’s food hall and the rooftop garden! It makes me very happy to know you felt relaxed and could experience the city at an easy pace. I really appreciated your curiosity and all your great questions — and I hope your sons had a fun evening out too! I sent you the kimono shop’s name and address on the GoWithGuide message site. Hope you find your favorite kimonos there. Wishing you all a wonderful time in the rest of your Japan journey. I’d be so happy to see you again someday! ARIGATO!

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