Best of Tokyo Small Group or Private: Japanese Traditions, Shopping & Food Tour

the guide was well informed and spoke very good english. We had a tour of nice shops and businesses with traditions older than 100 years and tasted some really tasty traditional japanese bites, which were included in the ticket price. A friday well spent!

Excellent experiance, very much worth while doing for both first timers to Tokyo and return visitors. The tour allowed you to explore places you would have perhaps walked by and missed as well as places you would never have known were there. In our case there were just four of us so that allowed for a more personal experience with our guide Nagi. She was friendly and very accommodating. She was willing to change things up and be flexible if there were places along the way that you wanted to look at. Highly recommended tour.

Tour was fun, Yoshi was very friendly and knowledgeable. My advice is don't eat before hand. The snacks and things you get to try are good and very filling.

It was a nice tour. Beautiful stores and history. Our tour guide Yoshi spoke very well English. Its was easy to find him at meeting point I have to say that it was a long walk, so be prepared. The tour guide took us to interesting traditional makers/shops we could not have seen on our own. We even got to discover and try delicious foods from the visited shops. He was very organized and polite and patient to answer all our question, related to the tour or in general on Japanese culture. Thank you Yoshi!

This tour was wonderful; our guides Aya and Ayaka were so kind, and showed shops that I otherwise would not have ventured into. Learning the history of some of the shops and trying the traditional snacks was awesome. I really enjoyed learning about the family-run ningyaki (probably wrote that wrong, but a sweet snack) store and watching the owner make it was so sweet. Also made a great friend on the tour :)

Ayaka was a wonderful tour guide! I loved that we went to authentic shops that we would have walked by otherwise.

Our visit to the neighborhoods of Ningyocho and Nihonbashi was somewhat hampered by the continuing rain throughout the morning and early afternoon. However, our guide, Seishi (not sure of exact spelling), was more than capable of providing a magnificent walking tour, and along the way explaining a number of aspects of Japanese culture of which we were entirely unaware. The “Best of Tokyo” tour as described in the Viator info is precisely a street by street exploration of tiny crafts shops of all sorts, probably shops we would have ignored – hand made biscuit shop; fan shop (imagine delicately crafted fans); paper shop (imagine all manner of paper); sweets shop; incense shop; sushi shop; traditional candies and crackers shop. The middle of the tour was punctuated by a visit to a local temple in Ningyocho, the shrine of fertility (both desired fertility and fulfilled fertility, with entire families coming with a month old baby to give thanks for the healthy birth). Then instead of walking (as the normal tour would have done), we took the subway with Seishi to the Nihonbashi, more modern neighborhood, with some huge department stores and the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Here we still found some small craft stores, e.g. a toothpick store (in case you forgot your toothpick holder!), a gold leaf craft and jewelry store, and a soup stand in a huge mall CorEdo). Since this was the first day of our trip, and due to the rain (and jet lag) we might just have stayed indoors, going on this tour was a super way to get out and about, to start to become oriented to Tokyo (we took our first subway in order to get to the rendezvous point), and to discover an entire array of commercial products that are, understandably, off the beaten path! Lots of walking is required, but almost entirely on flat surfaces. Because of the shrine visit, a more modest kind of dress is desirable.

We thoroughly enjoyed this walking tour . Meg was a very informative guide and took us to fascinating little shops that we would have walked straight past if we had not had such a wonderful guide .

Was a good tour! Be prepared to walk and you will get great food samples! Tour guide was knowledgeable but it was just an ok tour!

Walking or riding a bike are the best ways to get up close and personal with Tokyo life. We had an amazing time saw heaps and really enjoyed going into smaller areas of Tokyo . Yet another must I say