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Your first touchdown to Tokyo, half day tour
Joined 2024
This tour is for travelers who are coming to Japan for the first time. I will take you to major tourist spots such as Hamarikyu Garden, Tsukiji Outer Market, Ginza, and Asakusa. You can feel the Japanese traditional spots of Tokyo. Let's learn how to shop, how to ride the subway, etc. on the tour!
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 Tokyo or near station of your hotel
Hamarikyu Garden
It is a large, attractive Japanese garden in central Tokyo. You can taste the Japanese Macha, green tea.Your entrance fee for Hamarikyu-garden: 300yen / free under 12 / 150yen over 65.
Tsukiji Outer Market
It is a district adjacent to the site of the former Tsukiji Wholesale Market. One of famous fisherman's markets in Japan. We can have Lunch here if you love seafood. Even interesting sight view for foreigners.
Kabukiza Theater
Kabuki is a classical form of Japanese theatre, mixing dramatic performance with traditional dance. We just pass through the front of the theater to Ginza, but it is a nice spot to take a photo of the unique architecture.
Ginza
The Ginza is Tokyo's most famous upmarket shopping, dining and entertainment district, featuring numerous department stores, boutiques, art galleries, restaurants, night clubs and cafes.
Asakusa
Asakusa is known for its old-town and historic Buddhist temples. Asakusa is one of the most traditional districts in Tokyo. This spot is one of famous icons among the foreign tourists.
Ending Point
Asakusa or your hotel
Want to personalize this tour?
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 in 23 wards of Tokyo
Public transportation fee for guide
Lunch for the guide
Your transportation fee
Your lunch
Admission fee (you and the guide)
Tour Important Information
* This tour involves walking, so make sure to wear comfortable shoes.
* Please let me know in advance if you have any food allergies or other dietary restrictions.
Important message from the supplier
My schedule will be flexible, up to my deadline of works.
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 2024
About Tour Guide Yuji H.
This is Yuji, Japanese creator, such as painting, illustration, cartoon, and designing for Japanese magazine & advertising. I graduated from college in the US long ago. I used to work for Japanese publishing company for travel and Information magazine. I take lots of foreign friends to many places around Tokyo as a guide. I can take you common famous places, but also I can guide you if you have a special request, such as art, anime, table tennis or something belongs to your interest. For mostly I guide you by using the common transportation. but I also use my car to take you around for a small member of group because my car is so small, mini cooper.
Reviews
“Tokyo to Yokohama City & back!!”
We travelled by car to Yokohama the ‘Creative City’. It’s a vibrant City which supports creatives with its affordable studio space, street art & eclectic programme of festivals & events, ‘Fringe’ festival was underway & we chatted with the organiser over coffee at YPAM Fringe Centre. Yuji made the trip truly memorable as he’d arranged for me to meet with young creatives in college. They shared their ideas, aspirations & dreams; it was such a privilege. We had a guided tour of this super facility by the Professor, we talked to the teachers & saw students work on display. It was brilliant. Walking through the City was a quiet & calm experience. Traffic is restricted & bicycles are a popular choice. There was so much to see; Yokohama Bay with its redbrick warehouse getting ready for Xmas! Looking in the cool galleries & workshops in the creatives hub. Delicious sea food in a local sushi restaurant was our lunch stop. Which included octopus! Ordering from the tasty menu, seeing food being created & passing before my eyes was such fun! Talking to people was a chance to make comparisons: Yokohama City & Tokyo each have their own style identity & unique qualities. Yuji was so generous in sharing the story of his role in Yokohama becoming ‘Creative City’ enabling the City Councillors to realise their vision supporting creatives & attracting international investment….& he was my guide for the day! How lucky am I.
Yuji H.
Thank you for review, Helen san. I am so glad that you enjoyed your first stay in Tokyo. Even as a guide I really enjoyed seeing you had opportunities to talk with Japanese people in train, school and other places. I am hoping to see you again here or there someday. Please, take care of yourself !!
“Unique Tokyo such fun ”
Lucky me having Yuji as my guide to discover the unique city of Tokyo. We used the trains & buses to get around, always on time & spotlessly clean. We walked the vibrate streets, each with their own character, crossing safely with time to look & take in the happenings! Ginza, the Golden Gai, Shibuya, & Takeshita street, totally adorable, & everywhere in between. Got high on the feeling of peace & tranquility in a Japanese garden nestled in the modern city. Enjoying the autumn colours whilst drinking tea Japanese style. Experienced the famous & emerging sights that make Japan so special; kabuki theatres, the Meiji Shinto Shrine, fish markets. Glimpsed the innovative 3D advertising in Godzilla Street & Shinjuku. Had my photo taken in Akihabara standing next to manga favourites! and saw the work of the musical artist Mayea Deki! Awesome. Yuji guided me through some of the creative works on display: the sculpture & paintings of Taro displayed in his home & workshop(Okamoto memorial museum). Nezu Kaichiro’s collection (Nezu Museum) situated in a glorious garden. Trendy eyewear in the Omote Sandi Hills building. The stunning woodblock prints of Hiroshige & Hokusai, genius. The Suginami Animation Museum with the signatures of the creatives, anime 3D models & film. Enjoying the distinctive Japanese dishes reading from 3D menu’s & the quirky cool coffee places. Just a flavour of my time in Tokyo with Yuji; creating treasured memories.
Yuji H.
Thank you for your review, Helen san. I also enjoyed I guided you for 3 days. I was so surprised at how energetic and active you are compared to people your age.Please, remind Japan when you see the photos I took, and bit about me, haha. We may see again here, philippine, or Bali someday!!!
“The best of the best”
Yuji is the best, hands down. Kindest, most accommodating and caring human with a great sense of humor and inspiring outlook on life. Yuji has so much experience in so many wonderful things that making conversation is easy with him- my trip was very different. We visited isolated places neither of us had been before and we experienced a lot of firsts together- and I simply wouldn’t have had it any other way. I could 100 percent count on Yuji and rely on him to keep us safe and always having fun. We met so many locals and because he is so charismatic we made so many friends! I know Yuji-san is forever my friend now and when I arrive in my new home in Japan next year Yuji-san is coming to my house warming party. He’s stylish and cool and has your best interest at heart and mind. I wouldn’t trade my experience with Yuji-san for anything. Thanks for everything Yuji-san!!
Yuji H.
Thank you for your review. The destination of this tour is a place where even Japanese people have only a 50% chance of landing. I'm glad we were able to land safely. I'm glad that you were able to interact with many local people. And thank you for giving me the opportunity to have a first-time experience with you, Hope san. I hope this tour will lead to your next path. I hope to see you again!
$195/ per group
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