Ginza Shopping District
- Address:Chuo, Tokyo
- Hours:Open daily
- Admission:Free
Film & Cinema, Good Place to Shop, Popular with Locals, Neighborhood
Ginza Shopping District Reviews
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Excellent introduction tour to Tokyo. Guide was good and tour was well organised. Shrines are well worth the visit. Leaves afternoon to explore the shopping areas of Asakusa or Ginza. Good value package
A super busy and lively shopping area. Tons of stores you can find anywhere, but also interesting tea shops, stationary stores and restaurants. A great place to look for funny everyday Japan souvenirs.
The tour guide was good and the places were neat. It shouldn't really say a tour of Ginza since they don't really give your a tour, but only drop you off at this location. Also, it seemed a couple people were unaware they were getting dropped off and didn't know their way back home. All in all it was pretty good tour.
Being my first visit to Japan .. I did not know how the tour worked..they explained about pick up service but no confirmation.. luckily the concierge at our hotel the Regency called sunrise tours and confirmed my reservation and pick up time.. It was easy and everything was so well organized . The tour was on a time schedule and that worked out well. The tour guide Mr Sato was great and he really did have a sense of humor.. The only downfall was that this tour did not have a drop off at the hotel and we had to catch the subway from the Ginza station.. but otherwise it was great .
Our guide was wonderful. She spoke perfect English, gave us an in-depth overview of everything we saw, and made sure that when we left the tour in Ginza that we were comfortable that we could get back to the hotel. Great way to get your bearings to explore Tokyo on you own later.
This is a great few hours to show you a few interesting parts of Tokyo. As with some other tours they try to fit in a lot in the few hours you have but what they show you is beautiful. The Meiji Shrine is a stunning place to visit and we actually went back another day to spend more time there and to see more of it. During this tour we only got to spend 30 minutes here which isn't really long enough to take in what it has to offer and to explore everything else. Even though you spend a lot of time travelling to and from venues the tour guides are very knowledgeable about Tokyo and are constantly telling you what you are driving past and about the history of the area. You have a short walk through the Imperial Palace East Gardens which are beautiful and at this time of year the Cherry Blossoms are starting to come out. On the day we went id was raining which was a shame but we still saw the gardens and the blossoms. The tour ends in Ginza shopping district which is described as the New York of Tokyo. It has streets and streets of designer shops and department stores which you can spend hours in and thousands of yen! If you are interested here is where there is the Hello Kitty stores. There are about 4 Hello Kitty stores which have everything you could ever imagine! Very enjoyable but very busy!!
A very comprehensive and interesting tour. The guide was knowledgeable, interesting and professional with very good language skills. It covered a large number of areas which made the visits to individual places quite brief, but it did give you ideas of where to go again. Being able to leave the tour at Ginza was an excellent part of the trip as it allowed you more time to look at this area.
A great way to get your bearings of Tokyo and see popular shrines and temples. Glad that it was a half day tour and finished up in time for lunch in Ginza. The guide was entertaining, polite, and informative.
All very interesting and good value for money. They even dropped us to the Ginza area after the tour.
This tour is an excellent way to see the city, albeit in a fast-paced and brief manner. Our tour guide was wonderful and had a delightful personality. She was able to be both informative and amusing with her commentary. As it is only an afternoon tour, you're only given a sample of some of the city's features or sights. Tokyo is so incredibly multifaceted and intriguing that a tour like this could never expose you to everything that is on offer there obviously. But it is a pretty good way to start. Maybe the full day version would be a better option, if you've got the time. I didn't, so this option suited me just fine and showed me, just from peering out the bus window, how much there is to see in the wonderful city of Tokyo. You could spend weeks touring this place and still be amazed.Also, the tour ends in Ginza, so if you're into shopping and have time and a willingness to spend, be sure to have a walk around. Great tour, highly recommended!
Both my sister and myself requested hotel pickup and dropoff. We were informed that we would not be brought back to our hotel. Our guide was in a great hurry. He started our tour by telling us we were behind schedule. We spent the rest of our tour rushing. The guide seemed very annoyed and had next to nothing to say about any of our sights. He ended up telling my sister and myself it would be better for us to be left by the temple instead of finishing our tour at Ginza. We felt so rushed and unwelcome that we were relieved to leave the tour early. Obviously, we are not happy with the guide. We would have liked our tour if our guide cared and had spent more time informing us about our sights and less time rushing us.
If you've never been to Tokyo, this is a great way to get a quick overview. Our guide was very seasoned and shared a wealth of information. If you are not adventurous, you may be put off by being dropped off in the Ginza and having to find your own way back to your hotel, but we enjoyed this experience. It forced us to learn the subway system, which is relatively easy. People were very friendly and helpful. Once we got the hang of the system, we were hopping subways all over Tokyo.
Hotel pick-up was great! Tour was okay - the guide was annoying and went on and on about his trip to America in 1958 and his class reunion 20 years later. The East Gardens were closed, and the substitute was unimpressive and not a good choice. Also, the Senso-ji Temple is under reconstruction so it wasn't open. In all, two of the three highlights were missed. At the end of the tour, we were dropped in Ginza and had to make our own way back to wherever we wanted.
Both the shrine and the temple were very interesting. We also visited the beautiful Imperial Palace East Garden. People could remain at the temple do shop on an adjoining street or get dropped off at Ginza. The drive around Tokyo from one place to another was also interesting. We had a very good guide. On all the tours, the guides gave us instructions of how to return to our hotels via the subway.
A great way to see a few of the sites of Tokyo in the morning. Not really for you if you can't do a lot of walking as the pace is quite fast, especially around the palace gardens. Our guide was great and knew lots about the city and the various areas and the place we weren't visiting. We chose the morning so we could do some shopping in Ginza. After this tour it was easy for us to find our way round the city and do the other sites ourselves.
