Small Group Tokyo Food Tour - A Journey Through Time Through Food

Name: Small Group Tokyo Food Tour - A Journey Through Time Through Food
Brand: Hello! Tokyo Tours
SKU: 203632P1
Price: 176.00 USD
Rating: 5.0 (51 reviews)

Tokyo, Japan

5 hours 30 minutes
Mobile ticket
Offered in: English

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Overview

Discover Japan's unique culinary heritage on this small-group food tour. Visit three different districts (Nihonbashi, Ginza, and Akihabara) and a diverse array of venues, from izakayas to train stations. Embark on a journey through history while sampling 14 dishes that represent everything from the traditional cuisine of the Edo period to modern-day fusion flavors.

Discover Tokyo's culinary heritage on a food tour
Visit diverse eateries, from izakayas to cafes, in 3 districts
Small-group tour (maximum 9): A more intimate experience
Learn about Japan's culinary history from your guide

What's Included

Snacks
Lunch
Alcoholic Beverages

The costs of transport used during the tour are payable by yourself. We take two short subway rides.

Meeting and Pickup

Meeting point

Nihonbashi 1-chome Mitsui Building, 1-chōme-4-1 Nihonbashi, 中央区 Chuo City, Tokyo 103-0027, Japan
Nihonbashi Subway Station Exit B12.

Start time

11:30 AM

End point

Akihabara Station
1 Chome Sotokanda, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 101-0028, Japan

What To Expect

Nihonbashi

1 hour 30 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Nihonbashi Bridge (Pass By)

Fukutoku Shrine

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Ginza

1 hour 10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Yurakucho

1 hour 10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Tokyo International Forum

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Kitte Marunouchi

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Tokyo Station Marunouchi Ekimae Hiroba

20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Daimaru Tokyo

20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Akihabara

45 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Not wheelchair accessible
Near public transportation

Travelers should have a moderate physical fitness level
Full refund (excluding any credit card charges/ booking fee) if cancelled more than 2 weeks before tour. 50% refund if cancelled 5 days to 2 weeks before your tour. No refunds if you cancel your tour less than 5 days (119 hours) before the start of your tour. There are no refunds if you don not turn up for the tour or choose to leave the tour early.
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 9 travelers

Operated by Hello! Tokyo Tours

Cancellation Policy

This experience is non-refundable and cannot be changed for any reason. If you cancel or ask for an amendment, the amount you paid will not be refunded.

This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.

This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.

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Reviews

5.0

51 reviews

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Primer to Japanese Food not geared to tourists

Linda_D, Mar 2024

Great tour of different areas of Tokyo for authentic local food not found in tourist guides. Guide had great knowledge of Tokyo history and neighborhoods, as well as food. Very enjoyable experience. Would highly recommend.

Good, but could be far far better

Tim_S, Feb 2023

Pros: - Our guide Sidney was excellent, patient, knowledgeable and extremely helpful - The past/present/future theme was well curated Cons: - The tour was very slow and could probably all be achieved in 90mins, rather than 5 hours. As a tourist time is in short supply, and apart from store opening/availability hours, there’s no reason why this tour can’t either be accomplished faster or the amount of venues visited tripled. - I left quite hungry, which is disappointing for a food tour. Most food options were just “to taste/try/share” rather than to eat. It was odd to share a single food portion with the group, especially because the items themselves are very cheap, some even available from convenience stores

Response from Host, Feb 2023

Dear Tim, Thank you very much for your feedback of our food tour. It is the first time that we have received an average review and it gave us the opportunity to to reconsider how we run the tour and to think about if we need to make any changes to it. In the 3 weeks since you wrote the review we have taken 13 groups on this tour. At the end of the tour we asked each of them if they thought we should a) add in more food stops b) change the food stops c) run the tour at a faster speed d) make the tour shorter (cut some things out). With some of the groups we showed them your review and with others we just said ‘we’re thinking of…. adding in more food stops/ speeding up the tour..etc.. what do you think?’ Everyone except one person said they completely full. Several could not finish the last food stop and took it as a ‘take out’ for later. Most of them said that they would be skipping dinner that night. The one person that was not completely stuffed was a 6’7” 170kg NFL player. He said he probably wouldn’t be eating for another 2 hours. On that basis we have decided not to add in any further food stops. With regards to speed, it would be logistically impossible to run the tour in 90 minutes. Even if you sprinted from stop to stop, cut out all of the stories about the foods and the stores, and ate whilst running. That said we could probably cut off 45 minutes if we did ‘brisk walking’ instead of ‘casual walking’ and ate some of the items ‘on the go’ instead of at the stores. The feedback from all groups was that the tour is well paced at the current 5.5 hours. I would add that when we launched this tour it was 5 hours but we felt that was a little too rushed and so later extended it to the current 5.5 hours. Your feedback on the sharing of items was valuable and has led to a change. There are 3 items that are shared on this tour, all others are individual portions. Two of the three items are shared because it would not be normal to eat an entire portion oneself. One is a pot of pickles and the other is a bag of candied potato. If someone was to eat an entire pot / bag on their own they would certainly be sick. The third item is a drink. When we designed the tour we thought most people probably wouldn’t like it (but would appreciate trying it). It turns out about 70% of people do like it and your feedback has prompted us to change this from a sharing portion to a full bottle each. I appreciate that you booked the tour just 3 hours before it started and perhaps didn’t have time to read the tour description in great detail. I am also aware that you had to leave the tour part way through as you wanted to get to another attraction before it closed. This may have contributed to you not being as full as others. That said I also appreciate that we can’t satisfy 100% of people 100% of the time and perhaps this tour just wasn’t your cup of tea. There are much shorter food tours available with other companies which are purely about the food and do not go as deep on the historical and cultural aspects. Our approach is centered around understanding a city and its people through food. That means that we cover three distinct districts of Tokyo, rather than one like others companies, and we include several non food related stops which add to our understanding of the development of Tokyo. This of course leads to a longer tour which is ‘not just a food tour’. Nonetheless your feedback gave us the opportunity to sense check what we are doing and to look for ways we can improve. We are very pleased to have made the change to the drink stop and have you to thank for that. Thanks Tim :)