●Summery
This guided tour is to explore the old part of Tokyo by bike and boat, with a lunch of authentic Japanese food.
On this tour we are enthusiastic about exploring interesting places along the urban riverside by both bike and boat.
Although this is a full day tour we’ll proceed at a leisurely pace, stopping long and often enough to really take in the sights and tastes.
Actual cycle time over mostly flat, quiet streets is around 3 hours, making this easily doable by everyone with a medium level of fitness.
After a 15 minute ride from our base we’ll visit a Buddhist temple and Shinto shrine, known better to locals than tourists.
Then we’ll take our bikes aboard a modern river/harbour ferry at a pier near Asakusa. From the ferry you’ll experience Tokyo from a wonderfully unique perspective, which you might not have thought possible.
Following our 30-45 minute cruise, we’ll disembark and resume our bike tour. We’ll move on to the center of seafood wholesale in Tokyo, Toyosu (or Tsukiji) Fish market and have lunch there.
Then, we cycle through the old time streets of Tsukishima and Tsukudajima, and we visit a temple and shrine at Fukagawa area.
Finally we cycle back to our home base.
Here are some great lunch options at Toyosu Market in Tokyo — a must-visit spot for super-fresh sushi, seafood bowls, tempura and more!.
When Toyosu market closes (usually on Wednesday and Sunday), we take you to Tsukiji market insted. Although the fish wholesale business was relocated to Toyosu in 2018, this area is still as active as ever and popular to visit with loads of streetfood vendors to sample as you stroll along.
Next, we’ll cycle along the riverside to the Fukagawa area. Fukagawa has two religious places; Fukagawa-fudo temple and Tomioka-hachimangu shrine: both which were founded in the Edo era, and are popular with locals and tourists alike. There are also opportunities to try street foods here!
Finally we board the ferry again and head off back to our home base.
This tour is all about experiencing the waterways and local cycling paths of east Tokyo with our bilingual guide which you might otherwise be unable to do.
Toyosu Market
Tsukiji Market
Sight seeing in the Fukagawa area. Fukagawa has two religious places; Fukagawa-fudo temple and Tomioka-hachimangu shrine: both which were founded in the Edo era, and are popular with locals and tourists alike. There are also opportunities to try street foods here!
●Meeting at 10:30, at Tokyo Backstreets Bike Tour
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●Price – from 24,000JPY
●Duration – Approx. 6 hours.
●Inclusions – bike rental, 1 bottle of water, fare of water bus.
●Exclusions – transportation to/form the meeting point. Lunch.
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