Discover the real Tokyo, both historical and modern with a local! You will naturally see the contrast between new and old parts of central Tokyo.
We start the tour at Tawaramachi metro station at 10:30am. In the morning, we will visit Kappabashi and stroll through the Kitchen Street selling kitchen goods and plastic food samples that are very real.
We will then have lunch at a traditional restaurant with more than 100 years’ history.
After lunch, let’s try omikuji fortune at the Sensoji Temple in Asakusa and enjoy the atmosphere of downtown Tokyo as we walk through the Nakamise shopping street.
We will then visit Akihabara Electric Town – a town well known for being the center of otaku culture and shops devoted to anime and manga. Read More
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Discover the real Tokyo, both historical and modern with a local! You will naturally see the contrast between east west parts of central Tokyo.
Starting at Nippori station at 10:30am, we will first visit Yanaka in the old part of Tokyo and its shopping street, busy with local customers looking for glossaries and daily goods. We will then visit a local shrine, a calm and spiritual place with iconic red torii gates.
We will then move to the chic Omotesando area and have lunch at a buckwheat soba restaurant loved by locals. Soba in walnut sauce is the recommended dish but there are many other mouth-watering dishes for you to choose from!
After lunch, we will stroll through Omotesando and Harajuku’s Takeshita Street, a street of Read More
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Crisp air and water make winter the best season for sake brewing. On this tour, we will visit the smallest sake brewery in Japan and witness the process of sake making. Once you step into the brewery, you catch the fresh, mellow fragrance of sake. After the tour in the brewery, let’s taste fresh sake and compare the different labels.
- Meet the guide at Kanazawa station (it’s about 3 hours from Tokyo by bullet train)
- Lunch at a local restaurant and enjoy local unique cuisine
- After lunch, visit the sake brewery and enjoy tasting afterwards.
- Enjoy sightseeing in Kanazawa, it has many traditional samurai assets to see
- Depart Kanazawa station at 18:50 (go back to Tokyo by bullet train if not staying in Kanazawa)
* Fully guided one-day tour.
* Car transportation service is provided in Kanazawa.