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Tokyo Like a Local 7-Day Tour: Yanaka, Shimokitazawa, Kichijoji & the Neighbourhoods Guidebooks Skip

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✨ Highlights

  • 7-day · 17 stops on a fully hour-by-hour itinerary
  • Visit Airport pick-up + First izakaya and other curated stops

This is the Tokyo residents actually live in: temple-town lanes in Yanaka, vintage shops and jazz cafés in Shimokitazawa, the Ghibli Museum and Inokashira Park in Kichijoji, coffee roasters in Kuramae, a depachika food hall under Ginza. One anchor sight per day, then hours to wander with a guide who grew up here. Ramen, yakitori and a proper kissaten breakfast are part of the itinerary, not an afterthought.

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🎫 Options

🚘 Private Alphard with driver · whole trip

🚘 The price is for the WHOLE private Toyota Alphard (7-seater, up to 6 guests) with driver for all 7 days, 8 hours a day — not per person; 2 or 6 travellers pay the same. Hotels, admission tickets, meals and tolls/parking are charged at cost (we book them on request). A licensed guide can be added on request.

From¥509,740/car · up to 6 guests

From¥509,740/car · up to 6 guests
Capacity
1+
Itinerary
7 days · 17 stops
Day 1
  1. 16:00

    Airport pick-up · 90 min

    Driver at arrivals, straight to a hotel on the Yamanote loop.

  2. 19:00

    First izakaya · 150 min

    Ebisu Yokocho: a dozen counters under one roof, the way Tokyo actually eats on a weeknight. Overnight: Tokyo.

Day 2
  1. 09:30

    Yanaka & Nezu · 180 min

    Yanaka Ginza's shopping street, the cemetery's cats, Nezu Shrine's tunnel of torii (azaleas in spring), coffee at a kominka café.

  2. 13:00

    Ameyoko lunch · 120 min

    Market lunch under the tracks, then the vintage shops of Okachimachi.

    Ameyoko lunch · 120 min
  3. 15:30

    Kanda's old bookshops · 120 min

    Jimbocho's second-hand bookshops and a curry dinner — the neighbourhood's dish. Overnight: Tokyo.

Day 3
  1. 08:30

    Tsukiji outer market · 150 min

    Breakfast sushi and tamagoyaki, knife shops, a look at what the chefs are buying.

    Tsukiji outer market · 150 min
  2. 11:30

    Ginza depachika · 150 min

    The food halls under the department stores, a bento lunch, Itoya stationery.

  3. 14:30

    Marunouchi & the Imperial Palace moat · 150 min

    The red-brick station, the East Garden of the Imperial Palace, and an early dinner under the tracks at Yurakucho. Overnight: Tokyo.

    Marunouchi & the Imperial Palace moat · 150 min
Day 4
  1. 11:00

    Shimokitazawa · 180 min

    Late start — the vintage shops open around 11. Thrift, coffee, soup curry for lunch.

  2. 14:30

    Koenji · 150 min

    Tokyo's punk-and-vintage suburb: the arcades under the station, record shops, a temple in the middle of it all.

  3. 17:30

    Nakano Broadway & dinner · 150 min

    Collector floors at Mandarake, then dinner in the Nakano back streets. Overnight: Tokyo.

Day 5
  1. 09:30

    Ghibli Museum · 180 min

    Ghibli Museum tickets are subject to availability and advance reservation; OlaChill assists with the reservation but cannot guarantee admission until tickets are confirmed. The museum sits at the edge of Inokashira Park.

  2. 13:00

    Inokashira Park & Harmonica Yokocho · 240 min

    Swan boats on the pond, Kichijoji's Sunroad arcade, then Harmonica Yokocho's tiny bars for dinner. Overnight: Tokyo.

Day 6
  1. 10:00

    Kuramae · 150 min

    Tokyo's craft district: leather, stationery and third-wave coffee in converted warehouses by the Sumida.

  2. 13:00

    Kappabashi kitchen street · 120 min

    Knives, ceramics and the plastic food samples — lunch nearby.

  3. 15:30

    Kiyosumi Garden & Fukagawa · 180 min

    The stepping-stone garden, Fukagawa's Edo-period streets, a last dinner of monjayaki in Tsukishima. Overnight: Tokyo.

Day 7
  1. 09:00

    Departure · 180 min

    Private transfer to Haneda or Narita; an earlier flight simply moves the pick-up.

※ Actual timings vary with road conditions on the day.

🗺️ Route map

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Day 1 — Haneda

Driver at arrivals, straight to a hotel on the Yamanote loop.

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⚠️ Must-read4 items · tap to read▾
  • •Tours are guided mainly in English.
  • •In severe weather (typhoon, heavy snow…), a cancellation decision is made by 15:00 the day before departure and sent to your registered email/contact; weather cancellations are fully refunded.
  • •Please be on time at the meeting point and every gathering point — the bus does not wait for latecomers; missed portions due to personal reasons are non-refundable.
  • •The itinerary and time at each stop may be adjusted for traffic, weather or facility maintenance; in force-majeure cases a stop may be replaced with a comparable alternative.
📌 Other notes5 items · tap to read▾
  • •One carry-on bag per guest on the bus; please store large luggage at your hotel or a locker near the meeting point.
  • •Infants aged 0–2 without a seat join free; max one infant per adult; children must be accompanied by an adult.
  • •Pregnant guests and those with medical conditions should consider carefully: long bus rides, and immediate medical care may not be available on some legs.
  • •Lunch is not included unless the tour states otherwise — bring your own or eat at the stops.
  • •Change/cancellation terms vary by tour — see the cancellation policy on each tour page before booking. If the tour itself is cancelled for weather/force majeure, you receive a full refund.
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