Experience Old local Tokyo & traditional food in Yanaka Ginza
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Experience Old local Tokyo & traditional food in Yanaka Ginza

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Experience Old local Tokyo & traditional food in Yanaka Ginza
From $175.00
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Cancellation Policy
Flexible booking and cancellation options.

What you’ll do

Skip the tourist traps and run-of-the-mill group tours. This private tour of Yanesen lets you live like a local by meeting residents and trying street food, such as croquets, rice balls. Have a drink in an "izakaya," a Japanese pub, and browse traditional shops and visit a shrine with a tunnel of vibrant red torii gates.
Highlights
  • Private tour exclusively for your party: Ensures a personalized experience
  • Skip the typical sightseeing tours and live like a local
  • Learn about local culture, history, and cuisine from your guide
  • Stroll the streets, meet locals, and soak up the atmosphere
Itinerary
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Yuuyake Dandan:
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It is the stairs between Gotenzaka and Yanaka Ginza. In the evening, you can see a beautiful sunset in the direction of Yanaka Ginza from this staircase.
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Evil Stamp Shop Shinimonogurui:
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This is a shop where you can make name stamps with cute illustrations, featuring a large cat sign. Why not make an original stamp to commemorate your visit to Yanaka, the city of cats?
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Yanaka Shippoya: Try a donut stick, resembling the shape and pattern of a cat's tail. Our favourites are the creamy ones!
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Kanekichien: You can shop for equipment used in Japanese tea ceremonies in this lovely shop.
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Niku no Suzuki: Their freshly fried menchi-katsu is beyond delicious!
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Waguriya: It is the only store in Japan that specializes in Japanese chestnuts and owns its own farm, and is popular for its sweets that make the most of the natural flavor and taste of Japanese chestnuts.
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Echigoya Saketen: Taste Japanese beer and sake, and enjoy drinking the Japanese way; kadouchi.
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Hand Puppets Shokichi: Enjoy this fantastically expressive puppet show by professional puppeteers!
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Snake Road:
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Behind Yanaka Ginza, there is an alley that curves like a snake. Take a walk along the alleys that used to be small rivers.
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Nezu Shrine: Visit this shrine, also known as a "power spot", right in the center of Nezu, and walk through its magnificent tower gate and tunnel of red torii gates.
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Onigiri Café Risaku: Taste the soft and beautiful onigiri rice balls, a typical Japanese food, along with a delicious bowl of pork soup.

What’s included

Private tour

Tour Guide

The necessary expenses for the guide during the tour

What’s not included

Estimated Costs of the Tour: 6050 JPY per Person

Breakdown: Transportation: 0 JPY, Admission Fees: 700 JPY, Meal costs: 1000 JPY per Person

Optional Experience Costs: 4350 JPY per Person

What’s not included

Estimated Costs of the Tour: 6050 JPY per Person

Breakdown: Transportation: 0 JPY, Admission Fees: 700 JPY, Meal costs: 1000 JPY per Person

Optional Experience Costs: 4350 JPY per Person

Notes

Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller

Public transportation options are available nearby

Suitable for all physical fitness levels

All transportation costs, entrance fees, food and drink costs, etc. incurred at the visited spots, will be borne by the customer.

Please understand that tour spots might be changed to alternative spots in case of temporary closure.

Tour finishing spot is different from starting spot. Please let your tour guide know if you would like to change the finishing spot.

Please wear comfortable clothing as you will be walking a lot

Some of the spots we will visit on the day do not accept credit cards. Please remember to bring cash.

This includes spots where alcoholic beverages are served. Children are allowed to enter, but must be at least 20 years old to drink alcohol.

On Thursdays and Fridays, "Evil Stamp Shop Shinimonogurui" is closed, so we will show you an alternative spot.

From $175.00
Calendar iconWhen are you going
Cancellation Policy
Flexible booking and cancellation options.