🚘 Tokyo architecture and contemporary art, on foot
Roppongi → Museum → Omotesando → Gallery
Visit: Tokyo Metropolitan Area
Duration: 8 hours (approx.)
Lunch: Not Included
Language: English/Japanese
The walking version, as opposed to the drive on the same subject: slower, and actually inside the museums and galleries rather than looking at façades. Nine hours, with the car moving you between distant clusters, but most of it on foot and standing still, looking.
- hours
- 9
- per car
- ¥81,840
About this Tour
Get a shortcut to the best architecture and contemporary art spots in Tokyo on this private walking tour. After hotel pickup, explore Roppongi, Tokyo International Forum, and the famous Shibuya crossing. Combining culture with art, you’ll discover hidden gems that you would struggle to find on your own. Plus, along the way, listen to insightful commentary from your guide.
・Explore Tokyo's incredible buildings on this private architecture and art tour
・Enjoy convenient hotel pickup for a seamless start
・Forget the rush of large tour groups and explore at your own pace
・Travel easily via public transport with your knowledgeable guide
🕖 Departure: 9:00 am🕔 Tour ends: 5:00 pm
🕐 The day, hour by hour
09:30Hotel pickup
Hotel
10:00Visit1.5 hours
Mori Art Museum · Roppongi Hills
12:00Lunch (your pick)1 hours
Lunch
13:15Visit1.5 hours
Omotesando galleries
15:00Visit2 hours
teamLab — tickets booked ahead
17:30Hotel drop-off
Back to the hotel
📍 Itinerary idea
Pick-up at Your Hotel
Ginza60 minutes
Ginza known as the most renowned area of Tokyo, has many boutiques, intimate galleries, stylish Japanese stores, and cutting edge architecture. Many buildings designed by the world’s leading architects who won The Pritzker Architecture Prize such as Kenzo Tange, Toyo Ito, Shigeru Ban, and Renzo Piano.
Tokyo International Forum15 minutes Admission Ticket Free
This postmodern masterpiece, the work of Uruguay-born American architect Rafael Viñoly, is the first major convention and art center of its kind in Tokyo. It is considered as one of Japan’s most important modern cultural buildings.
Roppongi60 minutes
There are some art galleries and the three points of what’s known as Art Triangle Roppongi―the National Art Center, Mori Art Museum, and Suntory Museum of Art. The neighborhood is also home to the Fujifilm Square photo gallery, 21_21 Design Sight, and many other art and cultural events. The stuning Tokyo National Art Center is close to here. It is designed by famous architect named Kisho Kurokawa.
Omotesando60 minutes
With Tokyo's impressive array of high-end fashion and jewelry stores has come an equally astonishing collection of beautiful buildings. Start at the Prada flagship store created by The Swiss-based Herzog & de Meuron team is a beautiful glass building. Across the street they reprised their hit with the new Miu Miu flagship in 2015, made of aluminum and brass. Next door are glittery buildings for Chloé and Cartier. Part of Chloé's facade is hidden behind wooden bamboo like slits that tilt and jut high into the air at random. Famous Pineapple cake shop Sunny Hills is spiky wooden building designed by the Japan’s leading architect Kengo Kuma. Dior Omotesando is designed by Pritzker Architecture Prize recipients Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA. Moving projections play on the building during most of the year.
Takeshita Street60 minutes
Harajuku will give you some insight into the youth culture of Japan. You will see unique fashion trends and outrageous design in fashion and buildings.
Shibuya30 minutes
Shibuya crossing is the busiest intersection in the world. It makes Times Square seem like a sleepy village.
Daikanyama60 minutes
Daikanyama and Nakameguro are filled with numerous boutiques and cafes. They have a different atmosphere and less hectic pace than more famous places in the city. Tsutaya book store located in this area is designed by Klein and Dytham who worked at Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects.
Drop-off at Your Hotel
Our Services
- 💧 Bottled water
- 💧 Tour guide in English
- 💧 Taking photos service
- 💧 Snacks
*Anniversary gift service
* Please request * items when you reserve this tour.
Additional Info
- • Pick-up and drop-off locations are in Tokyo’s 23 wards, Mitaka City or Musashino City.
- • This tour will have a maximum of 9 passengers.
- • Advance reservations can be made a minimum of 24 hours before departure.
- • This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate
- • Your chauffeur may not be able to accompany you and your party to certain locations when a parking for a vehicle is not readily available on site. In such situation, your chauffeur may choose to provide you with relevant information about sites inside a vehicle, and answer any questions you may have prior to your excursion on your own.
- • The price on the Tours don’t include entrance fees and meals.
- • Some tours may not be available on requested dates due to holiday schedule or a scheduled closure of business.
- • We reserve the right to assign a type of vehicle (Sedan, Minivan or Van) most suitable for your trip, based on the size of your party.
- • Most travelers can participate.
- • Our tour images are for illustrative purposes only.
- • The following fees will apply to the cancellation.
- • We will charge a cancellation fee of 100% if booking is canceled 1 day or less before the event
- • We will charge a cancellation fee of 50% if booking is canceled 2 days or less before the event
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The price includes
A private vehicle for the whole day · driver · fuel · hotel pickup
⚠ Price covers car, driver and fuel. It does NOT include a guide, entry tickets, expressway tolls or parking.
🗓 All private tours must be booked at least 7 days ahead.
Up to 6 guests per vehicle — beyond that we add a second car.
- • How does booking work — is it instant?
- It is not an instant-confirm button. You send a request at the bottom of this page and we reply with a written quote: the final price, exactly what it covers, and the cancellation terms for that specific trip. The booking exists only once you accept that quote. Slower than a Book Now button, but nothing gets sold to you that is not actually available.
- • Will we be grouped with other travellers?
- No. Every tour in these two sections is private: your party only, your own vehicle, your own host. No sharing, no waiting on strangers.
- • Where does pickup and drop-off happen?
- Pickup and drop-off at your hotel inside the central area of the city named on the tour, included in the price. Outside that area we can still collect you — the surcharge is written into the quote, never added when you get in the car.
- • Can the itinerary be changed?
- Yes. The hour-by-hour schedule above is the version that works best, not a fixed mould. More driving time, a different meal, an extra night, or dropping a leg — write it in your request; the price moves with it and the change is spelled out in the quote.
- • What languages does the team speak?
- Put the language you want in your request. The quote tells you whether someone who speaks it is free ON YOUR DATE — we do not promise a language and then tell you on the day that nobody is available.
- • When and how do we pay?
- You pay nothing before you have read and accepted the quote. Payment method, payment dates and which part needs a deposit to hold a third-party booking are all written into that quote. Nothing appears afterwards.
- • How far ahead should we book?
- The earlier the surer. Helicopters, ryokan rooms, supercars and tables at small restaurants all have very few slots a day — money does not conjure one up. Ask anyway if your dates are close: if it is open we will take it, and if it is not we will say so plainly.
Cancellation and date changes
The cancellation terms for your trip are written into your quote, and you read them BEFORE you pay anything.
We do not post one blanket rule like "cancel X days ahead for Y% back" across this section, because every trip holds different bookings: an aircraft charter, a ryokan room, a supercar, a table with a handful of seats. Each supplier has its own terms and most are paid up front. One shared number reads tidily and would be the wrong number on most trips.
The rule we hold to: anything not yet paid out to a supplier can be cancelled, and anything already paid that the supplier will not refund we call non-refundable out loud — at quote time, not at the moment you ask to cancel. If you want a different date, ask before cancelling: moving a booking usually costs far less than dropping it.
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