Cherry Blossom Tour: Experience Asakusa, Ueno, and Imperial Palace Garden
4.5
4 Ratings
Chiyoda
Immerse yourself in the beauty of cherry blossoms on this guided tour of Asakusa, Ueno, and the Imperial Palace Garden. Discover the history of each site while enjoying the vibrant colors of the cherry blossoms.
Duration:
8 hours
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
- The East Gardens of the Imperial Palace (Edo Castle Ruin) - 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 - 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.
- Senso-ji Temple - 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.
- Ueno Park - 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.
- Ameyoko Shopping Street - 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.
What's Included
- Licensed Tour Guide
What's Not Included
- Private transportation
- Lunch
Additional Information
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.
Location
The East Gardens of the Imperial Palace (Edo Castle Ruin)
1-1 Chiyoda,
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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Angielusk
Apr 7, 2023
Perfect orientation to Tokyo - 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.
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Angelash2527vk
Apr 7, 2023
Wonderful Cherry Blossoms - 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.
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Donna_y
Mar 20, 2022
Ana zing and very helpful! - 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!!!!
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Betsy_g
Apr 23, 2023
Okay - 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.
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