Tokyo Private Walking Tour
Built around what you're curious about — temples, markets, the streets between them — with a local guide who reshapes the day as you go.
from¥36,000for 1–2 guests
- up to 10 guests
- 4, 6 or 8 hours
Private day tours · Japan, shared by locals
Tokyo, through the right door.
Every city has doors that only open for a friend. Ours open because of who is beside you: a local who is glad to show you their Japan for a day. One guide, everyone with you, at your pace.
- One price for everyone with you
- 5.0, everywhere we are reviewed
Build your day
Two ways in — take a day we already run, or shape a new one.
01Who's coming
02When you're here
Cherry blossom is late March into early April, and books out first.
03What you're into
Take a day we already run, or tell us what you're after and we'll build one around you.
Tours · private, one booking at a time
The days we run.
A short list on purpose. These are the days we run again and again, because guests keep telling us they were the best of the trip. Take one as it stands, or use it as the first draft of something we build around you.
Tokyo Night Tour
Yakitori under the lanterns of Omoide Yokocho, a standing izakaya, a jazz basement, and the good end of Golden Gai — with someone the owners already know.
from¥72,000for 1–2 guests
- up to 5 guests
- 4 hours, evening into night
Mount Fuji Day Trip
The pagoda view at Arakurayama, Kawaguchiko's quiet north shore, and a houtou lunch under the mountain — out early, ahead of every coach.
from¥84,000for 1–2 guests
- up to 6 guests
- 10 hours, door to door
Also running
Kyoto Private Walking Tour
Built around what you're curious about — shrines at first light, craft lanes, the market's counters — with someone who knows Kyoto as home.
Nikko Day Trip
Toshogu's gold under the cedars, the ghost Jizo by the river — or up the forty-eight hairpins to the lake. Two tested ways north; both leave the coach crowds below.
Itineraries · by enquiry
Built around you, day by day.
Some days don't start from a menu. Tell us who's coming, what you're curious about, and what you'd rather avoid — and we build the day around that, hour by hour. No fixed itinerary until it's right.
01
You tell us
A few answers, nothing more.
02
We propose a day
One price for all of you, and the guide who fits it.
03
You hold the date
We reserve your guide and your dates, and everything is settled before you travel.
One day, as it happened
A day we built, hour by hour.
Not a template — a real Tuesday, for a family of four who said “food, and nothing touristy.”
A Tuesday in October · four guests · 9:00–17:00 · five stops
09:00
Coffee in the lobby.
Their guide met them there, talked the plan through, and asked what they would rather skip.
09:40
Breakfast at Tsukiji.
A standing counter in the outer market where the chefs eat before work. No English menu — the guide ordered, they pointed at what looked good.
11:15
Kappabashi, and a knife shop with no sign.
Third generation. They showed the family how the sharpening is done, and why the good ones cost what they do.
12:40
Lunch, called ahead.
The knife shop's owner phoned a tempura counter two streets away in Asakusa. It is in no guidebook.
14:30
Yanaka, at walking pace.
Temple lanes, a senbei shop the same family has run for generations, and a coffee roaster the size of a closet.
15:30
The plan changed.
The children were done walking. Their guide knew a bench-lined path through Ueno Park, and a taiyaki stand on the way. Twenty minutes later everyone was fine.
17:00
Back at the hotel.
Eight hours, door to door. Dinner was already booked — four seats at a counter, in their name. We made the call while they were out walking.
The people you spend the day with
The person beside you is the whole day.
A small team, each with a corner of the city they know by heart. We look for one thing above all: people who love sharing this place. The alleys, the counters and the history they already had. You meet yours before you leave the hotel lobby.
Momo
Hina
Rika
Miwa
Asako
Pricing
One price for everyone with you.
One price buys your guide, start to finish, for everyone with you. Two of you or six, the day costs the same, because it is your guide's day you are booking.
- One price, all of you. Quoted for who is coming and how long your day runs, and it covers everyone travelling with you.
- Nothing is owed on the day. Payment is settled before you travel, so the day itself carries no bill — and nothing is added at the door.
- What the price covers. What a day's page lists as included is on us: temples and shrines on most days, the night tour's dinner and drinks. The rest you pay as you go, at the counter and at the door.
¥36,000/ 4 hours
A private walking tour · for 1–2 guests · from
Reviews
What guests say afterwards.
Read them for the sentence that keeps coming back: by evening, it felt like a day with a friend.
“Very nice tour with Hina ! All was really interesting : food, temple, anime..... A big thank you to Hina 👍👍”
“Miwa was excellent! She was so personable, knew all the goods spots, and really was in her element. I would highly recommend this!”
“Rika is a lovely and knowledgeable person with good English skills. We enjoyed her tour and we would recommend her to others.”
4.9 / 5 across 103 reviews here · 601+ more on GetYourGuide · 30 on Google
Before you ask
The questions we hear most.
Is it really just us?
Always. One booking, one guide, one day — and that can be one person; solo travellers are very welcome. You never share the day with strangers.
How many people can come?
The walking days book for up to ten guests, the night tour for five, and the day trips for six. More of you than that? Tell us — days that size are built by enquiry, and past six or so we plan the day differently anyway: different counters, sometimes a second guide.
Can we change one of your days?
Yes — that's the point. Take one as it stands, or start from it and we'll rebuild the parts that aren't you.
What if it rains?
Rain doesn't cancel the day — Tokyo has plenty to do indoors, and your guide knows all of it. If genuinely severe weather makes the day impossible — a typhoon, a transit shutdown — we move it or refund it in full. We decide it with you, on the forecast, before you're ever standing in it.
Do you arrange hotels or transport?
Hotels, flights and cars stay yours to book; we are guides, not a travel agency. We will happily tell you where we would stay and how to get about.
How do we pay?
For a single day, you pay when you book. For several days or an itinerary we build, a deposit confirms it and the balance is settled before you travel. On the day itself there's nothing to pay us.
Plan your trip
Tell us what you're curious about.
Take one of our days — confirmed the moment you book — or start a custom one, built with a person who usually replies the same day.