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Tours of the City Walking Tours The Tokyo Tourist Information Office (tel: (03) 3201 3331) provides a leaflet, Walking Tour Courses in Tokyo’, outlining walking routes in several main areas of the city. Asakusa’s Goodwill Guide Club gives a free one-hour English-language walking tour of this historical area every Sunday afternoon. Information is available from the Asakusa Cultural and Sightseeing Centre (tel: (03) 3842 5566). Bus Tours Hato Bus (tel: (03) 3435 6081; fax: (03) 3433 1972; website: www.hatobus.co.jp/english/index.html), JTB Sunrise Tours (tel: (03) 5620 9500; fax: (03) 5620 9502; website: www.jtb.co.jp/sunrisetour) and Japan Gray Line (tel: (03) 3433 5745; fax: (03) 3433 8388; website: www.jgl.co.jp/inbound/index.htm) offer a wide variety of Tokyo bus tours with English-speaking guides. Boat Tours A regular waterbus service runs along the Sumida River between Asakusa, the Hama Rikyu Gardens, Hinode Pier and Odaiba (tel: (03) 3841 9178). Vingt-et-Un Cruises (tel: (03) 3436 2121) and Symphony Cruises (tel: (03) 3798 8101; website: www.symphony-cruise.co.jp/indexe.html) offer daytime and evening boat cruises around Tokyo Bay. |
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