Tokyo

Tokyo Private Walking Tour with A Guide (Private Tour Car Option)

Name: Tokyo Private Walking Tour with A Guide (Private Tour Car Option)
Brand: Guydeez
SKU: 104357P3
Price: 55.98 USD
Rating: 4.5 (232 reviews)

Tokyo, Japan

Customize your 8 hours private tour with a local guide

From $55.98

Price varies by group size

Select Date and Travelers

up to 24 hours before the experience starts (local time)

2 to 8 hours
Pickup offered
Mobile ticket
Offered in: English

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Overview

What's Included

Private Walking tour (Select the option with car if you wish to take the tour in a private vehicle)
Customization of the tour.
Meet up at your accommodation (If located in the city)
Help from our team to book the tickets for the desired visits.

Drink or Food
Tickets to any attractions
Tips (Optional)

Meeting and Pickup

You can head directly to the meeting point, or request pickup

Meeting point

Tokyo, Japan
The local guide will pick you up at your hotel ( if located in Tokyo )

Pickup points

Select a pickup point

End point

This activity ends back at the meeting point.

Pickup details

The local guide will pick you up at your hotel ( if located in Tokyo )

What To Expect

Tokyo (Pass By)

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Wheelchair accessible
Stroller accessible
Service animals allowed
Near public transportation

Transportation is wheelchair accessible
Surfaces are wheelchair accessible
Most travelers can participate
This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate

Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.

Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.

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Reviews

4.5

232 reviews

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Tokyo Tour

anjeanette_t, May 2024

Our guide was amazing!! So knowledgeable and respectful. We had the best time!! She navigated the city for us. Helped us pick a beautiful lunch, and got us back safely to our hotel. She was as awesome, as we were exhausted fr travel. It was an awesome tour!

Great Private Your Asakusa

Michelle_D, May 2024

Jenny was great. She had really good English and a wealth of knowledge of the area. History, fun facts and food that she loved that we should try. She took us to the well known areas of Asakusa and the not so well known for perfect views over the town. She also gave us recommendations for other areas to visit. We would thoroughly recommend this private tour

Great guide and tour!

Eileen_C, Apr 2024

Claire was a very informative guide and was most helpful in showing us how to navigate on our own in Tokyo. She picked us up at our hotel and we walked to the Meiji Shrine and were lucky to see a Shinto wedding procession. We stopped for an ice tea break in the Harajuku and also saw the Shibuya crossing. It was a very busy holiday week and we ended with Claire showing us how to use the subway as she helped us get back to our hotel. Thank you Claire, we would highly recommend this tour!

Fabian was prompt, spoke...

Joan_B, Apr 2024

Fabian was prompt, spoke excellent English, and he adapted our tour to meet our requests on a tight tumeline. He also made sure we returned to our port in time for departure & communicated to the cab driver our destination and needs. An excellent experience!!!

Tokyo 2 Hour Walking Tour

Robyn_H, Apr 2024

Fabian and Meiko were fabulous tour guides, very friendly and informative. We walked around Yoyogi Park, visited the Meiji Jingu Shrine and down Takeshita Street to Shibuya and the famous scramble crossing.

Seeing the sights of Tokyo

Karen_S, Apr 2024

Albert did an amazing job of taking us first to the Meiji Jingu Shrine where he explained much of the significance of the shrine. He was patient in helping us navigate the public transportation. We enjoyed visiting the various trendy shopping districts as well as seeing the skyline from various tall skyscrapers. Our lunch of Ramen was also a highlight. He escorted us through narrow streets where we would never have been able to navigate without his directions. It was an awesome tour.

Great walking tour

stuartmcdaid, Apr 2024

First class tour with Himena, we saw more of Tokyo in 4 hours than I would have thought possible. Excellent

Wonderful and memorable day

Gavin_M, Apr 2024

Fabian was a great guide and provided us with a wonderful and memorable day We saw a range of highlights along with some off the beaten path and very interesting things

Full ray tour of Tokyo

Paul_G, Apr 2024

Our full Day tour of Tokyo, with our guide Albert, was amazing. We were able to see everything that was on our bucket list plus more sights we were not expecting. The food was great and our guide was very patient with our large group which included 5 children. I would highly recommend Albert as your next Tokyo tour guide

Had a private walking...

Alison_M, Apr 2024

Had a private walking tour with Claire. Claire was lovely, was punctual and explained things well. My Mother is elderly and Claire was very considerate of this.

Excellent!!! Thank you!!!

Maria_H, Apr 2024

Maria was punctual picking us up from the hotel. She did a great job customizing our walking tour given our location and time constraints. In the process she gave us a crash course on using public transportation, ordering at local restaurants, and gave us a glimpse into Japanese customs and attitudes. She was a wonderful tour guide! We highly recommend her!

A great day in Tokyo

Richard_F, Apr 2024

Karl met us at our hotel, assessed our desires and went full steam ahead creating a perfect day for us. He gave us great insight and ideas for the rest of our time in Tokyo. If you have an opportunity to need a guide, I would advise you you ask for Karl.

Perfect day around Tokyo

84hynhg7bq, Apr 2024

Ron, our guide, was wonderful. He modified our tour to the areas we preferred and the pace was perfect. He took us to a quiet and delicious ramen shop, and even got us ice cream.

Fun plan your own tour

maria_m, Mar 2024

Our guide Eduardo was excellent. He created wonderful agenda. The driver made us feel safe and he had a great vehicle. Definitely recommend

Super introduction to Tokyo

Chris_W, Mar 2024

If you want a traditional tour guide then Mark is not for you, but if you want a true version of living in Japan as a foreigner, then this is perfect. Mark created a bespoke tour and showed us the real Tokyo, bypassing many of the tourist traps. Lunch in a street food cafe was great and really cheap. Imperial Palace East Garden was calm and very peaceful. Shame that we were 2 days early for the Cherry Blossom but we can't blame the guide for that - he really tried to find some!

Unsatisfying Tour of Tokyo

Jyothi_D, Mar 2024

Unfortunately our tour of Tokyo was not a great experience. While our guide was nice, she had very little knowledge of Tokyo and was not a local. We didn't learn very much. She could not answer many of our questions. It was an expensive tour with few advantages.

Response from Host, Apr 2024

Hi Jyothi, Thank you for taking the time to share this with us! We are sincerely sorry that you had a negative experience on your tour. We strive to ensure that all our guests have enriching and memorable experiences, and we regret that we did not meet that standard for you on this occasion. Guydeez is about creating happy memories and because of this, we have already contacted you via your email directly. Once again our apologies for this inconvenience and we hope you give us a second chance. Warm wishes, Guydeez Team

4 hour quickie dose of culture

Jeffrey_H, Mar 2024

our 4 hr tour allowed us to walk and see the shrine and imperial gardens. the shine is a big tourist destination and while impressive, best seen early or late in day when the crowds dissipate. conversely, the imperial gardens is so immense, there is room for everyone. alas, only a few cherry trees had bloomed as of march 28th as spring is late arriving. the scale is impressive. our guide, mark, is an american, as are we. so communication beforehand as to what we wanted to see was really helpful. during the 4 hours, mark gave us a dose of local life perspective which we enjoyed so we felt we learned a bit. last, mark found a ramen place that served lamb, unusual per mark. we enjoyed a quick lunch and said goodbye when dropped back our hotel. very relaxing 4 hr tour as we have done a long one the day before. worth doing a longer one with mark if one is more energetic.

Pre-plan and pre-book: don’t rely on your guide

Emily_S, Mar 2024

I don’t know if the breakdown in communication was between Viator and the tour company, or the tour company and the tour guide, but I filled out everything we were interested in seeing and doing during our two day, identifying a handful of MUSTS for our teen, but allowing for plenty of flexibility for the tour guide to plan it the most efficient way possible. The tour guide clearly either didn’t get or chose not to read any of it, as she didn’t have even one thing planned. Since I knew almost everything needs reservations in Tokyo, I SPECIFICALLY SAID please tell me if I need to make reservations for anything (a TeamLab museum - which requires reservations way in advance - was on my MUST list, which was communicated). Plus, we were with her for two days, she could have had us make reservations for day two for things like Sky Tree. Instead went spent over an hour traveling to the attraction and seeing if we could find last-minute tickets so we wouldn’t have to wait in line for hours. We finally just left. More details below, but in short, I would have planned the trip myself and just paid for taxis instead of spending so much on the guide and saving a little using public transport (which we typically love). Taxis were not expensive - we could have taken 10+ taxi rides per day for the cost of the tour guide. Our tour guide was nice and her English was perfect. I loved learning about her, but here are the other issues we had: - We were traveling with a young teen, and although I specified things we wanted to do for her, the tour guide really struggled to adapt to her. - Other than a few facts at a couple of the shrines, she didn’t share anything about the city, its history or what we were seeing. Ultimately, she was just a translator and helped us navigate public transportation. - Getting breaks or food was insanely difficult. For instance, the tour guide ate while we were doing an activity around 11 a.m., and even though we told her repeatedly that we were thirsty and hungry, she didn’t agree to stop for food until 3 p.m. We hadn’t eaten since 8 a.m.! It took me having to be very rude to get her to stop. - Also, she was forcing her health preferences on us. For instance, we wanted Ramen or something kid-friendly, and she was only giving us options that were super healthy (yes, she specified we should have something healthier than what we wanted). Another example was that our teen wanted boba tea, and the tour guide was trying to get her to have matcha instead because boba was so sugary and bad for you. She even lectured our young teen about needing to have a better skincare routine, which I tried to gently redirect and finally had to just tell her to stop. - During the two days we spent with her, we had to make every decision - where to go next, how to get there, etc. - nothing had been prepared, and we typically had to wait for her to figure out how to get there. She had suggestions based on the basic tour she typically gives people. - We had terrible rain our first day, and she really struggled to adapt the tour for that. We still were walking in the cold and rain, even though we said we were good taking taxis. - She only engaged with us when we “forced” her to. She would just walk ahead of us, or sit in silence on the train and look at Instagram instead of talk to us. My husband and I are very chatty, so we did get her talking quite a bit, which was great because she was really interesting! Lastly, she told us that English-speaking tour guides in Tokyo are so in demand that she can pick and choose her clients. There are certain “types” of clients that she won’t even agree to tour because they’re too demanding. Yikes!

Response from Host, Mar 2024

Hi Emily! Thank you for taking the time to share this with us! We are sincerely sorry that you had a negative experience on your tour. We strive to ensure that all our guests have enriching and memorable experiences, and we regret that we did not meet that standard for you on this occasion. Guydeez is about creating happy memories and because of this, we have already contacted you via your email directly. Once again our apologies for this inconvenience and we hope you give us a second chance. Warm wishes, Guydeez Team

Interesting and fun

Elise_H, Mar 2024

Jenny, our tour guide, was incredibly knowledgeable and tailored her information for our kids interests. We booked this last minute after another tour company canceled and we were so pleased with our tour!!

Tokyo tour

Sally_H, Mar 2024

Our guide was FABULOUS!! He was so well informed about the city and all of the sights!! He took into consideration everything that we needed

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