Tokyo Highlights Afternoon Tour including Tokyo Tower

Tokyo, Japan

See Tokyo's highlights on a 3.5-hour afternoon sightseeing tour. You'll have the morning free to explore Tokyo at your leisure, then tour the following highlights in the afternoon:

Due to operational changes following the Tsunami, this tour is not available until further notice.

• Panoramic views of Tokyo from the observatory of Tokyo Tower
• Driving past the Japanese Capitol (House of Parliament)
• Short photo stop at the plaza in front of the Imperial Palace
• Nakamise shopping street, a narrow, paved entrance way to Asakusa Kannon Temple, crammed with tiny food and souvenir shops
• World-famous Ginza shopping district, where the tour concludes

USD $56.50

Review by: george s	January 2011
The tour guide was very informational and very humorous. This tour allowed you to see important highlights, but not enough time. If it was a hour longer it would've been perfect.

Review by: Alan G	January 2011
Not a "Tour" at all! It was a bus ride around town with only 3 stops!

Review by: Jenny B	October 2010
The tour hit a lot of the main highlights and "tourist" attractions in Tokyo. However, I was disappointed in the fact that one of the couples was /thirty minutes/ late returning from Tokyo Tower and that penalized the rest of the tour group, cutting drastically short our visit to the Imperial Palace so that we did not have the opportunity to see the main photo-op view.

Review by: Kathy M	September 2010
expected to see more of imperial palace or more of the grounds

Review by: Grandville B	August 2010
Tour was good and the guide was great and a lot of fun. There were 5 in our party of various ages and we all enjoyed it very much.

Review by: Margarita H, United States of America	June 2010
This is a good tour to take on the first day in Tokyo. It gives you an idea of how the city is layed out, and shows some of the highlights that everyone should see.

Review by: Alexis K, United States of America	June 2010
This tour was so rushed but was a great introduction to downtown Tokyo. I'd recommend taking this tour at the beginning of your stay, just to see what Tokyo and Asakusa has to offer.

Review by: Anne H, United States of America	April 2010
already done

Review by: Annie H, Sweden	April 2010
The tour itself gives a good insight to areas. Depending of time of year, I was there during the cherry blossom period it gets very congested at places, e.g. at Tokyo Tower where between queuing to get up and down, we had about 5 minutes to look at the view. Mr. Sato, who guided, had a great sense of humor and guided in an expert manner, with trivia as well as historical facts as we toured around. Well worth tour to take early in your travel!

Review by: Eric E	April 2010
already done

Review by: Eric E	April 2010
The tour itself gives a good insight to areas. Depending of time of year, I was there during the cherry blossom period it gets very congested at places, e.g. at Tokyo Tower where between queuing to get up and down, we had about 5 minutes to look at the view. Mr. Sato, who guided, had a great sense of humor and guided in an expert manner, with trivia as well as historical facts as we toured around. Well worth tour to take early in your travel!

Review by: Helen K, United States of America	March 2010
Great trip! Awesome guide, made the trip interesting and great.

Review by: Anonymous, United Kingdom	March 2010
A well planned trip which would have been much more enjoyable in better weather. We couldn't see a great deal from the Tokyo Tower because of mist, low cloud and poor visibility and the time spent in the Asakusa market district was pretty miserable in the cold and rain. Not the fault of Viator however, the trip did provide a good overview of Tokyo for us to go back and explore at our leisure.

Review by: Ben K, Australia	February 2010
This tour is an excellent way to see the city, albeit in a fast-paced and brief manner. Our tour guide was wonderful and had a delightful personality. She was able to be both informative and amusing with her commentary. As it is only an afternoon tour, you're only given a sample of some of the city's features or sights. Tokyo is so incredibly multifaceted and intriguing that a tour like this could never expose you to everything that is on offer there obviously. But it is a pretty good way to start. Maybe the full day version would be a better option, if you've got the time. I didn't, so this option suited me just fine and showed me, just from peering out the bus window, how much there is to see in the wonderful city of Tokyo. You could spend weeks touring this place and still be amazed.Also, the tour ends in Ginza, so if you're into shopping and have time and a willingness to spend, be sure to have a walk around. Great tour, highly recommended!

Review by: Paul U, United Kingdom	December 2009
We enjoyed the guide and Tokyo Tower, but the trip to the market was too short and the trip to the Palace was too late, everything was closed. Not really worth while, we could easily do this alone without the bother of pickups and waiting at bus station. Perhaps an afternoon trip in the winter is not a good idea.

Review by: Becky Ann S, United States of America	November 2009
Being my first visit to Japan .. I did not know how the tour worked..they explained about pick up service but no confirmation.. luckily the concierge at our hotel the Regency called sunrise tours and confirmed my reservation and pick up time.. It was easy and everything was so well organized . The tour was on a time schedule and that worked out well. The tour guide Mr Sato was great and he really did have a sense of humor.. The only downfall was that this tour did not have a drop off at the hotel and we had to catch the subway from the Ginza station.. but otherwise it was great .

Review by: Bela B, Australia	August 2009
A good introduction to Tokyo but a full day tour would be better if time permits.

Review by: Anonymous	August 2009
Thoroughly enjoyed this tour - excellent way to see Tokyo if you have limited time. The tour guides were extremely knowledgeable and so very pleasant and polite - all the tours in Tokyo were of the same excellent standard.

Review by: Nancy B, United States of America	June 2009
The English-speaking Japanese guide we had on this tour was fabulous. He was well-spoken and very interesting.

Review by: Anonymous, Norway	March 2009
Well organized and on time. Comfortable bus and guide.

Review by: Brian U, United Kingdom	March 2008
This was by far the worst tour I have been on, we even decided to leave it early rather than listening to the guide talking about his own family anymore. It certainly was not an interesting tour about Tokyo and could easily be improved on. We have booked other tours through Viator and they were far superior to this one.

Review by: Victoria W, United Kingdom	January 2008
Great!

Review by: Enrique T, United States of America	January 2007
Tokyo Tower Observatory and Asakusa Temple were impressive, but the time to enjoy these wonderful places was too short.