Cherry Blossom Highlights, Asakusa, Ueno, Imperial Palace Garden
Description
The tour visits beautiful Cherry Blossom Viewing places while the Licensed tour guide talks about the back ground of sites. Start with Morning stroll at East garden, Imperial palace seeing beautiful cherry blossoms. Visit Tsukiji fish market, lively place to eat good sushi and barbecued chicken, scallops. After lunch head to Sensoji temple, land mark of Asakusa. The last destination is Ueno park lined with a thousand of cherry blossoms seeing remains of Tokugawa family's temple. Places we visit may be changed depending on the condition of cherry blossoming.
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Itinerary
Morning stroll at Imperial Palace located on the old site of Edo Castle and surrounded by moats and stone walls. The Imperial Palace covering 90 hectares of forests plays a role as lung of the metropolis. You can enjoy cherry blossom viewing like Shogun used to in the East Garden of Imperial Palace.
Tsukiji is lively food park, the right place to encounter traditional Japanese cuisine. At noon the narrow streets of outer market are filled with nice smell of grilled chicken, tuna, whale and scallops. Long lining for bite size egg roll.
Stroll down in Sensoji temple, viewing beautiful cherry blossom. Sensoji temple is one of the oldest temple in Tokyo. At Nakamise street stretching from the Thunder gate you can buy Japanese traditional souvenir and Ningyoyaki, sweets popular among the tourists.
Enjoy Ueno park lined with more than a thousand of cherry blossoms and remains of Tokugawa family's temples such as Ueno Toshogu and Kiyomizu Kannnon temple and Shinobazu pond.
Ameya Yokocho, a shopping arcade lined with shops selling fresh fish, food, daily goods, souvenirs. The local people and tourists eat and drink at food stands. Enjoy the downtown atmosphere.
Highlights
What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
The Tour Guide will meet you at your hotel's lobby.
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Important Information
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
- Gratuities : Your tour guides gratuities are NOT included in the cost of your tour package. Although, not compulsory, tipping is expected and is an expression of your satisfaction with the people who have assisted you throughout your tour. In line with this, we highly suggest that you include the specific amount that you want for the gratuities. For your reference, you base upon the cost of the tour booked as suggested gratuities per person : 10% - $12, 15% - $18, 20% - $24.
Reviews(4)
I’ve been on a lot of tours, so I have a lot to compare this to. Our guide was very sweet, but her English was difficult to understand. We were with her all day and she did show us some things we wouldn’t have otherwise known to see. However, I was really not happy that she changed a huge part of the tour (The Imperial Palace) and didn’t inform us until she picked us up and we had already paid. She substituted a pretty obscure (comparatively) park…Hamarikyu Gardens.
Thank you very much for your valuable review. We're very sorry to hear that. The cherry blossoms were almost over in the Imperial Palace on Apr 4th as cherry blossom started much earlier than we expected. So she chose Hama-Rikyu garden where is famous for late cherry blossoms still beautifully in bloom. However, she should have explained it well in advance. We very much appreciate for your valuable review, and will continue to improve our tour. Thank you very much and best regards.
What a wonderful day exploring the cherry blossoms around Tokyo! Hiroko was a great guide. We learned a lot and got to see a lot of the city.
Thank you very much for your quick and kind review. It was great pleasure to serve you as tour guide during cherry blossom season in Tokyo.
The Cherry Blossoms were definitely the highlight of the tour. The tour guide was very personable and made bridging the language gap very easy. There is a lot of walking on this tour is the only warning I would give to others be fit and prepared to walk. The guides knowledge about plants and the history was great.
Thank you very much for your quick and kind review. It was great pleasure to serve you as tour guide during cherry blossom season in Tokyo.
The guide, Nobuko Akimoto, was very generous with her time and knowledge. She took no offense to my cultural questions and gave me insight so I can understand what I observe. She adjusted the tour to my curiosity instead of pro forma. Wish I had gone sooner and more often. Extremely grateful!!! She was amazing!!!!
Thank you so much for your quick amazing review. Hope you will continue a great and safe trip.