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Tour in Tokyo, including Private and personalized walking experience with insider and One drink in a café or izakaya with a food tasting along. Run by City Unscripted, booked direct rather than through a reseller.
Highlights
- Runs 2 hours
- Private and personalized walking experience with insider tips from a passionate local
- One drink in a café or izakaya with a food tasting along the way
- Flexible durations and start times – Choose your preferred duration when booking
- Pre-tour questionnaire to customize your experience
- Direct communication with your host for itinerary planning and recommendations
Shibuya and Harajuku: Hidden Gems and Highlights Private Tour (Tokyo): Key Facts
| Price | From $83.5 per person |
|---|---|
| Duration | 2 hours |
| Languages | English |
| Tour type | Guided Tour |
| Booking | Direct with the local operator — no OTA markup |
Full description
This is a 2-hour experience in Tokyo. It is run by City Unscripted, an operator we book with directly rather than through a reseller, which is why we can hold your place with them before we treat your booking as final.
Tokyo is the largest city on earth by metropolitan population and it is best seen as a set of neighbourhoods on the Yamanote loop line rather than one place. Asakusa has Senso-ji, the city's oldest temple, and Nakamise's shopping lane; Shibuya has the scramble crossing and Shinjuku the bars of Golden Gai and Omoide Yokocho; Harajuku is Takeshita Street and Meiji Shrine's forest; Akihabara is electronics and anime; Ginza is department stores and sushi counters. Everything runs on time and the last trains are around midnight. Cash still matters in small restaurants, an IC card covers every train and bus, and tipping is not done anywhere.
The price covers Private and personalized walking experience with insider, One drink in a café or izakaya with a food tasting along, Flexible durations and start times, Pre-tour questionnaire to customize your experience and Direct communication with your host for itinerary planning. It does not cover Additional food, Transportation costs and Gratuities, so budget for those separately. Everything included is listed in full on this page; if something is not on that list, assume it is not in the price.
City Unscripted sends the meeting point and time by email as soon as the booking is confirmed. We need at least one day's notice, and we confirm the date with City Unscripted before treating your booking as final. If they cannot take your date we tell you and refund you rather than leave you waiting.
Includes
- Private and personalized walking experience with insider tips from a passionate local
- One drink in a café or izakaya with a food tasting along the way
- Flexible durations and start times – Choose your preferred duration when booking
- Pre-tour questionnaire to customize your experience
- Direct communication with your host for itinerary planning and recommendations
Excludes
- Additional food, drinks, or attraction tickets (beyond those included in the experience)
- Transportation costs (as this is a walking tour, public transport may be used at an additional cost)
- Gratuities (optional)
Important information
Meeting point
City Unscripted sends the meeting point and time by email as soon as the booking is confirmed.
Know before you go
- Free cancellation available up to 24 hours before the activity starts
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Traveler Reviews
Tomo was prompt and very responsive leading up to the tour. she sent me a picture of what she would be wearing so we would recognize her and had no problems. she took us exactly where we wanted to go and we saw everything we wanted to. It was great+
Our tour was individualised by a quick questionnaire after booking and our delightful guide Shoko took the reins and tailored our itinerary to showcase what we were interested in. We loved that the tour was flexible and Shoko adjusted the usual visits to touristy attractions that we had already discovered ourselves the previous day, to show us another side to Tokyo where the locals tend to go. We travelled by local train to a few different areas - Shibuya, Harajuku and Shinjuku - enjoying the bustling stations and busy streets, mixed with quieter little alley ways with rows of historical eatin
Veronica was super communicative with us before our tour so she could get a feel for what we wanted to see. We went to the Meiji Jingu shrine, and she suggested that we get a book to collect goshuin, which involves collecting stamps with hand painted calligraphy and stamps unique to each shrine and temple. We then went to Harajuku to take in the sights on Takeshita Street and Cat Town. We ended in Shibuya to see the famous crossing. Getting the goshuincho was a great idea as we are now in Kyoto collecting goshuin throughout the city. Veronica is amazing!
Very friendly and nice guide. Highly recommended! A+++
Excellent guide, very knowledgeable, showed us things we never would have seen wandering ourselves, the teens got a great insight in to how the teens here live and what they like. Was fantastic.
My guide Tomo was lovely. She was very knowledgeable and I was able to see things that most tourists would miss. She catered the tour to my interests, so it was very enjoyable. I would highly recommend this tour!
Leon has been an incredible guide for exploring Shinbuya on our first day, he is extremely nice and answered all of our questions. It was a great morning with him, I highly recommend the experience.
Kyoko was an excellent guide. She is very knowledgeable and helpful regarding Tokyo culture, especially fashion and pop culture.
Gab was an amazing guide and truly made my experience unforgettable. He was incredibly kind, friendly, and knowledgeable, and made exploring the city both fun and effortless. I especially appreciated how attentive he was to what I was interested in seeing and doing. I would highly recommend Gab to anyone looking for a thoughtful and engaging guide. Thank you again for such a wonderful time!
Shoko was a great host, very friendly and knowledgeable. We enjoyed our tour very much
We really enjoyed our time with Seichi. He was very friendly and knowledgeable and willing to customize our itinerary for us. Highly recommend.
Leonardo was wonderful. We were a group of 15 and really needed someone who could accommodate all of us together. Leo made our day very special. He knew so much about Tokyo and gave us tons of information about the places he took us to. We were lucky to have e such a good guide!!