2 Hours Yanaka Retro Backstreets Walking tour

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2 Hours Yanaka Retro Backstreets Walking tour

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Overview

Step away from Tokyo's busy streets and discover the timeless charm of Yanaka, one of the city's best-preserved old areas. On this 2-hour evening walking tour, you'll explore quiet backstreets, historic temples, nostalgic shopping streets, and hidden alleys with an English-speaking guide as the area glows in the evening light.

Starting at JR Nippori Station and ending near Nezu Station, this leisurely walk offers an authentic glimpse of Tokyo’s old-town atmosphere. After the tour, your guide can recommend local izakaya, soba, and yakitori spots for dinner.

・This tour requires a minimum of 3 participants to operate. If the minimum number is not met, the tour may be cancelled. In that case, you will be notified in advance and receive a full refund.

・This 2-hour walking tour includes stairs, slopes, and narrow alleyways. Wheelchair and stroller users must be accompanied by someone who can provide assistance.

Activity location

Yanaka District
- 110-0001, Yanaka, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan

Meeting/Redemption Point

Nippori Station
- 19
- 116-0013, Arakawa City, Tokyo, Japan

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2 Hours Yanaka Retro Backstreets Walking tour

2h
English

Travellers

Language options: English

Price details

AU$26.58 x 1 AdultAU$26.58

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What's included, what's not

Dedicated English-speaking guide
2 hours walking itinerary
Tipping
Anything not mentioned in the itinerary
Transport expenses to the meeting point and from the tour end point

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Public transport options are available nearby
Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Yanaka District

Gotenzaka Slope & Kyoo-ji Temple ~up the “Palace Slope” to the 1836 gate scarred by bullets from the 1868 Battle of Ueno, when the temple hid the shogun’s last loyalists. Viewed from the lane after evening closing~

Yanaka District

Hatsune Koji ~a wooden post-war arcade two people wide: red lanterns lit, izakaya counters filling up, rice-cracker shop still open. This alley only truly comes alive at this hour~

Yanaka District

Yanaka wooden townscape at dusk ~lantern-lit lanes of pre-war timber houses that survived the 1923 earthquake and the 1945 air raids, with the smell of dinner from open kitchens~

Yanaka District

Yuyake Dandan ~the “Sunset Steps” at their namesake hour: the shopping street glowing below, the neighbourhood cats out on the stone, and the best photograph of the walk~

Yanaka District

Yanaka Ginza ~170 m of family-run shops at closing time: paper lanterns lit, grills still going, shutters painted with cats. Walked through with the guide~

Yanaka District

Yomise-dori ~literally “Night-Stall Street”, the local shopping road that once was exactly that, laid over the covered Aizome River~

Yanaka District

Hebi-michi “Snake Road” ~a lane that bends exactly along the buried Aizome River and still marks the Taito–Bunkyo ward border; hidden bars and galleries on both sides~

Nezu Shrine

Nezu Shrine ~founded some 1,900 years ago, the 1706 complex of the 5th shogun surviving intact as Important Cultural Properties. The tunnel of vermilion torii after dark, with the city gone quiet~

Location

Activity location

Yanaka District
- 110-0001, Yanaka, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan

Meeting/Redemption Point

Nippori Station
- 19
- 116-0013, Arakawa City, Tokyo, Japan

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