Walking tours · Tokyo
Small-group morning walks through the older, quieter layers of the city — back lanes, riversides, and the everyday streets guidebooks pass through on the way somewhere else.
See the walks ↓Same Tokyo. A different story.
Tokyo Osanpo Tour
We don't move between attractions. We follow one line through a neighbourhood — a temple approach, a river bank, a shopping street — and read what the city has left along it.
Both walks meet in Asakusa at 9:30 and finish around noon, on foot, in a small group, with time to stop and look.
Details, dates and booking are handled on Tripadvisor.
— Featured walk
Change into kimono, then walk the temple and its side streets — Kaminarimon, Nakamise, Senso-ji and the quieter Nishisando — learning how people here actually visit a temple.
— Featured walk
Cross Azumabashi and follow the river east — past the Asahi building, under the railway at Mizumachi — until the tower stops being a view and becomes the street you are standing in.
A third route is being written. We add a walk only once we have walked it enough to guide it.
TBD
Tokyo Walking
Tokyo Walking is where we publish the work behind the walks: the background to each route, the history of a street, what a guide notices in a building, and the photographs we take along the way.
The tours are simply the parts we think are worth walking with someone.
Read Tokyo Walking →
東京おさんぽBOOK
The book grew out of the same work as the tours: routes, hand-drawn maps, columns and photographs, gathered as a printed guide to walking Tokyo.
Edition, extent and price — TBD
See inside the book →Read the two routes above and pick the morning you want.
The walk's own page opens on Tripadvisor, with full details and available dates.
Payment, changes and cancellation are all handled there.