Travel Plan Examples, Tokyo

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Favorite thing: the number one tour company in the tokyo area, the hato bus company is an icon itself in the tokyo area hence i've made a separate things to do tip for hato bus tours here in my tokyo pages. Whether you are looking for the time-honored standbys—shrines, temples and Japanese gardens—or the more fashionable and trendy hot spots, Hato Bus Sightseeing Tours have exactly what you want! Hato Bus Tours have wonderfully diverse courses combining a little of everything, from traditional Japanese food to excellent shopping, even picturesque cruising, to ensure that you end the day replete with the charms of Tokyo! they offer tours with highly capable English-speaking tour guides as well as tours in Chinese, Korean and Spanish via their audio-guide system, the Tour Tracer (you must pay 500 yen for use of the audio tracer).

Fondest memory: their website is: www.hatobus.com/

address is: HATO BUS CO., LTD.
World Trade Center Building 2-4-1 Hamamatsucho, Minato-ku Tokyo 105-6101, Japan
TEL 81-3-3435-6081 FAX 81-3-3433-1972

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Favorite thing: one of the main travel agencies and tour groups in tokyo and japan, it is a very popular tour company. the prices vary per off course and also vary if you have lunch included or not with the tours. the tours are the following:

Tokyo Old Downtown "Yanaka" Walking
Take a pleasant, half-day afternoon stroll through the streets
JPY 3,500

Tokyo Seaside Afternoon
On an afternoon tour of Tokyo Metropolitan you enjoy the very new spot "Odaiba"
JPY 3,500

Cityrama Tokyo Morning
This is another morning bus tour if you have already been to Tokyo Tower.
JPY 4,000

Cityrama Tokyo Afternoon
This is another afternoon bus tour if you have NOT been to Tokyo Tower before.
JPY 4,500

Akihabara Walking tour
Spend the afternoon strolling the streets of Akihabara, traditional Mecca
JPY 4,500

Tokyo Morning
This is a very basic morning bus tour of Tokyo Metropolitan.
JPY 5,000

Tokyo Afternoon
This is a very basic afternoon bus tour of Tokyo Metropolitan.
JPY 5,000

Bonsai Museum and Japanese Garden
See some of the finest, centuries-old examples of world-renowned bonsai
JPY 5,000

Ghibli Museum Afternoon -Hayao Miyazaki's Animation World-
Your chance to visit the popular Ghibli Museum in the Tokyo suburbs.
JPY 6,000

Full Day Edo Tokyo
Time-slip into old Tokyo--the Edo era.
JPY 6,000

Tokyo Nightlife
This is an evening tour including dinner. You can take authentic Japanese dishes choosing from Tempra, Sashimi, Sukiyaki or vegetarian.
JPY 6,500

Sunrise Sumo Tour -Tokyo Tournament
Sep.13-27, The Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament will be taking place!
JPY 9,800

Panoramic Tokyo
Combines a basic morning sightseeing tour with lunch,
JPY 9,800

Experience Japanese Calligraphy
Experience not only the feel of writing with brush and paper, but also the spiritual realm of Japanese calligraphy.
JPY 9,800

Tokyo Horseracing Tour
Why not enjoy a day at the races? Your horse lost?
JPY 9,800

Dynamic Tokyo
One of the most popular day tours of Tokyo.
JPY 12,000

Mukojima Geisha Tour
Enjoy dinner while Geisha of the famous Mukojima district entertain you with traditional dance and songs.
JPY 12,000

Japanese Incense Experience and Shabu-shabu lunch
Give your senses a treat. In Japan, incense is enjoyed much like tea ceremony, using all five senses not just the sense of smell.
JPY 13,000

Asakusa in Kimono
Imagine yourself as a true-born Edoite and take a morning stroll
JPY 13,000

Sunrise Sumo Tour & Chanko Dinner -Tokyo Tournament
After watching the sumo tournament, why not enjoy a "Chanko"
JPY 13,800

Ninja and Samurai tour
Learn the fighting techniques of ninja and samurai,
JPY 13,900

Yakatabune Dinner Cruise
Board a traditional party boat for dinner, including tempura and sashimi,
JPY 14,000

Sushi Making Experience and Tsukiji Fish Market Tour
Visit the Tsukiji Fish Market, then try your hand at making sushi guided by a master teacher of sushi chefs!
JPY 14,500

Tea ceremony and Harajuku walking in kimono
Experience traditional and modern Tokyo culture!
JPY 15,000

Bonsai Museum, Japanese Garden, and Dinner on a Yakatabune
See some of the finest, centuries-old examples of world-renowned bonsai
JPY 17,000

Japanese Culture Experience at Sogetsu Kaikan
A wonderful, half-day, hands-on experience in traditional Japanese culture.
JPY 19,000

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Fondest memory: their website is: www.jtb-sunrisetours.jp/

just visit their website or ask from the concierge of your hotel on how to book the tours via the JTB sunrise tours.

Favorite thing: Get a Japanese-English metromap as soon as you can. Otherwise you will be lost!
It differs every metrostation wether the maps are also in English or not. For that reason you should always carry a English-Japanese metromap with you.

In the famous Forumbuilding near Tokyo station...

( http://www.t-i-forum.co.jp/english/shop/index.html )

...there is an informationstand in the middle which can give you such a map. In the metrostations themselves you only see English OR Japanesemetromaps. This informationstand also offers a guide how to use the metrosystem. Really; just on the 7th day of my stay in Tokyo I discovered how to change trains without paying extra.

Favorite thing: Trains service in tokyo can be very complicated, so any trip around or out of the city has to be planned beforehand to avoid be lost or wasting of time. Examples going to fuji san, hakone, nikko from tokyo. Best way is to trace the train route to the locations and from the locations get a map from the tourist information center.

Favorite thing: Stay cool, hip and modern. You don't want to look like a plain tourist or a backpacker in Japan. You'll feel out of place and cannot enjoy your trip. Dress well and luxuriously and you'll be part of the community. Japanese dress well and expensively. You've been warned!

Favorite thing: We had an enforced stopover on our way back from Oz. We were exhausted and really just wanted to crash, and being that the airport hotel we were put up in by JAL was miles from the city centre, that was even more tempting...

But - if you can possibly fit it in - GET OUT OF THE NASTY HOTEL and go see something - even if its a local shopping centre (as we did)!!!

Japan, to us, seemed a really crazy place - a real culture shock - and that taste was enough to tell me I'd like to go back and see more...

Fondest memory: Best memory was the all over multi function auto body massage chair we spent more time testing than the shop assistant clearly felt was necessary!!!