1-Day Tokyo Bus Tour

My family and I booked this tour on our first day in Tokyo in hopes of gettting a general idea of the various places in this great city. Indeed, it met our expectations. Our tour guide was friendly, helpful and funny. Yet he kept very strict to the time. We all learned a lot and seen a lot on this tour. Highly recommended.

Our tour guide Blair was excellent very attentive and helpful. He explained everything in details. It was very enjoyable.

Good value well organised tour. A great start to our Tokyo adventure that enabled us to get our bearings and take in the sites all in one go. Our Nepalese guide was very organised, knowledgeable and spoke excellent english. We took the lunch option, Chanko wasn't for us, but it was an experience. Overall an excellent Tokyo tour.

The tour was amazingly wonderful. We saw most of Tokyo in one day. The tour was very organized and the guide was funny and very easy to understand. The bus was very comfortable and the cruise was relaxing.

Our Tourist Guide Levin (?) is very warm and helpful! The tour schedule is good but we don't feel much value on the river cruise which is the last item of the tour.

The Bus tour was one of my highlights. We went to must-see attractions and it was an interesting experience. I recommend this, its a good started for your holidays.

I have taken a couple full day tours around Tokyo and this was by far our favorite.

First time i was disappointed with a viator tour supplier. The bus tour was just a plain bus tour, no info given or explanation as to where we were by the tour assistant as she described her job. Her name is yulia. She was busy selling her wares by asking the passengers ‘upgrade, upgade your skytree tour from 350 meters to 450 meters’ and asking those who only joined the morning tour if they wanted to join the afternoon tour to the skytree and tokyo cruise. We expected a tour guide who will tell us the history of the place we were visiting but only an intermittent taped info is played once she got back to her seat. She told us to just read the laminated tour brochure she distributed at the start of the bus tour. At one time, we asked her to walk slowly so all the passengers can keep up with her fast paced (she was at least 50 meters away from the passengers) that we hardly heard whatever was her instructions where we are going to regroup after 20 minutes for the bus but she replied, ‘i can not slow down because i have to follow the time given by the tour agency, you just watch for the tour flag i am waving.’ With so many people in the temples, we can hardly see her since she is vertically challenged. In fact, several passengers followed other tour groups if we did not see them and shouted at them that they are with the wrong group.

The tokyo cruise was also a letdown. Our fellow passengers were sleeping during the tokyo cruise due to the heat on the boat.

The vegetarian food was yukky. The soup in the hotpot did not boil at all so i can taste the rawness of the vegetables and mushrooms in the soup. I called the attention of the attendant to fix the flame but nothing happened until it was time to go. I only had the 4 small slices of raw tofu and nothing else. Yulia did not bother checking on her passengers if the food was ok before she sat down to take her meal unlike TOKO, the tour guide of your other supplier who pointed to all the passengers the scenic spot on our way to Mt. Fuji. We may not have seen the Mt Fuji due to bad weather but we were never disappointed because she took good care of her passengers until we arrived at the station where we took the shinkansen back to tokyo while she accompanied the others who went back through the bus.

This tour is not recommended for seasoned travellers.

We started the tour by a visit to the Imperial Palace and Gardens which were closed because it was Monday. The guide told us to walk around the park that surrounds the area and left us alone, It was like that the entire tour, he took us to a Buddha Shrine told us a little outside and invited us to escort ourselves through the temple for an hour. Next we went to a tower were we saw nothing because it was raining and foggy, total waste of our time. I commented to the guide that perhaps the agenda should be changed in case of rain or on days when when place to be visited is closed. Apparently this can't be done, don't know why. Lunch was not included unless you pay extra, not at all worth it. We did better at the restaurant down the street. Finally a one hour boat ride was included, again without benefit of tour guide. I wandered upstairs and there was a guide with another group explaining the various buildings and their history. This tour was pretty awful, and very pricey.
Don't recommend.

We enjoyed our tour! It was just very hot that day . The tourist guide was very nice and very helpful.