Get Expert Advice Planning Your Trip to Tokyo

Planning how to spend your time in the world's largest metropolis can be quite daunting for first-time visitors to Tokyo. There are pitfalls from the start on choosing the best place to stay in regard to where you want to go and what you want to experience. The options are endless and it is hard to know where to start. Just choosing a hotel on what may seem like a good deal on the surface can cost you precious lost time on unnecessary travel  and lessen the fullness of your Tokyo experience. Proper planning is essential.

First Tokyo Trip offers a bespoke service for those who want to have their time in Tokyo well planned out and allow maximum time to experience the most of Tokyo within any given time frame. Whether you have a stop over of 10 or 12 hours or staying in Tokyo for two weeks, we can create an optimum itinerary with a detailed hourly or daily schedule. 

Our services start with advising you on the most convenient area in Tokyo to stay that matches your desired touring destinations. A number of off-the-shelf, half-day and full-day self-walking guided tours are available to get you started, or a bespoke tour of a specific area in Tokyo can be designed for you. For a more personal touch, bespoke tours with your own private English-speaking, Japanese tour guide allowing you to design your own free-flowing tour, are also available. 

Working closely with us guarantees your first trip to Tokyo will be one with unforgettable experiences and cherished lifetime memories!

Self-Walking Guided Tours For First-Time Tokyo Visitors

Let your feet do the walking and our Self- Walking Guided Tours do the chalking. Our walking tours chalk out the steps you need to take to experience great places to tour in Tokyo. Each tour contains a detailed route that is mapped out that takes you to the highlights of each area in the most efficient way. See more in less time without missing the most interesting and popular landmarks. Save yourself the hassle of spending countless hours on the net with google and their maps trying to figure out which way to go. These walking tours show you the best way to explore Tokyo and streamline planning your daily schedule knowing exactly the route you will take and time that will be spent.  

Minimum Tracking Time: 6 to 7 hours

Create Your Own Self-Walking Guided Tour

Select from the locations below or suggest your own and we will put together a self- walking tour  that will include highlight venues to explore in the area. Slot your bespoke self-walking tour into your overall Tokyo itinerary for minimal time wasted once you're in town. Tokyo can be a monster to navigate even for second-time visitors and ineffective planning unnecessarily spoils many a trip.      

Get started. Let us get to know you. We'll show you how to get the most out of your trip by creating a bespoke tour for you.

We provide off-the-shelf and bespoke self-walking guided tours, bespoke itinerary design services, and guided tours with English-speaking tour guides. All are tours are in Tokyo and surrounding prefectures. Although we are focused on working with first-time visitors to Tokyo to ensure they make the most of their first trip, we can help those well-seasoned travellers wanting to explore new horizons and experience something different. All our tours are private. 

Our tours are usual for a duration of a half-day (4-5 hours) or a full-day (7-8 hours). A combination of a day and night tour of up to 12 hours can also be designed to meet your desired itinerary. We also offer standalone night tours of the best places in Tokyo to enjoy based on your taste of music, venue atmosphere, budget, and time available.

A self-walking guided tour is a digital product you can download onto your mobile phone that takes all the guess work out of visiting a specific area and otherwise touring "on the fly" using search engine maps and/or information from the internet. These guided tours include a detailed tour route of the place you want to visit, how to get there from your hotel, travel costs involved, and estimated time it will take to walk the tour. They can be used in lieu of hiring a tour guide and without constantly trying to find your bearings going through the twists and turns while walking the route. Getting lost can be  part of the exploring process, but usually results in wasted time, energy, and missing out on the best Tokyo has to offer. Self-Walking Guided Tours help prevent this.   

Yes, we do and have a list of recommended venues. However, we find the best result is in working closely with you and making any changes that will be more suited to your expectations and objectives. Our Bespoke Itinerary Design Service starts with our recommendations, but provides three rounds of discussions to make sure the chosen itinerary is right for you.

You have two choices. First you can make a reservation for one of our off-the-shelf tours of popular destinations. These are set half-day or full-day tours and, like all of our tours, are structured to minimized travel time and costs from your hotel. Or, you can use our Bespoke Itinerary Design Service that gives you the freedom to design an itinerary that includes your chosen venues. We then tweak the itinerary to create a tour route from your hotel that again minimizes travel time and costs. In both cases, the tour guide will meet you at your hotel to start your journey. Quoted tour prices include all travel costs, food and drink costs, and tour guide costs. 

We have a flat fee service to advise you on the most convenient places to stay depending on your proposed destinations within Tokyo or to  surrounding prefecture sites during your stay. We can make a hotel reservation on your behalf under agreed upon conditions. 

All our tours are private. We provide tours for individual travellers up to as many as five people in a group. Tours for family and/or friends over five people are considered on a case by case basis.

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