• Visit Japan’s Imperial Palace, the home of the Emperor & the ground of the former Shogun's castle, the political center of Japan until the mid-19th century. Then explore the commercial district of Nihonbashi, with many long-standing businesses for over 400 years.
• *Reminder:
• - Do note that we cannot visit the Imperial Palace as this is off-limit for guests. Instead, we will visit the ground of the former Shogun's castle.
• Highlights of this tour:
• ◆ Palace's East Gardens and see beautiful seasonal flowers and the ground of former Shogun's castle.
• ◆ Stroll around Nihonbashi, major commercial district in Tokyo for over 400 years
• ◆ Try delicious dashi soup stock shop with 300-year old history
• ◆ Take a lookt at Japanese seaweed being roasted
• ◆ Try Japanese knife sharpening by yourself.
• ◆ Visit a century-old washi shop, and see traditional Japanese paper.
• ◆ Taste a variety of sake at Toyama-kan prefectural store

To begin your tour, you will walk a beautiful ginkgo tree-lined avenue to the Imperial Palace. Once you reach the palace, you will walk its vast grounds, which are dotted with cherry and pine trees and enclosed by deep, formidable moats. The palace buildings themselves are typically closed to visitors, but there is still plenty to explore on the palace outskirts. The most famous of these sights is the Nijubashi bridge, a double bridge that forms the entrance to the palace’s inner grounds. Together with the towering Sakuradamon Gate beside it, the view has long been considered one of the most iconic in Tokyo.