Walking Tours
The Tokyo Tourist Information Office (tel: (03) 3201 3331; website: www.jnto.go.jp) provides a leaflet, ‘Walking Tour Courses in Tokyo', outlining walking routes in several main areas of the city. Mr Oka's Walking Tours of Tokyo (tel: 0422 51 7673; website: www.homestead.com/mroka/) offers free walking tours of the city. The historian runs a number of tours all over the city, and as they are free they are very popular.

Bus Tours
Hato Bus (tel: (03) 3435 6081; website: www.hatobus.co.jp), JTB Sunrise Tours (tel: (03) 5796 5454; website: www.jtbgmt.com/sunrisetour/) and Japan Gray Line (tel: (03) 3595 5948; website: www.jgl.co.jp/inbound/index.htm) all offer a wide variety of half-day, full-day and evening bus tours, with English-speaking guides. For example, Hato Bus offers a half-day (0900-1230) ‘Tokyo Morning Tour' that departs daily from the Hamamatsucho Bus Terminal. The tour takes in a number of sights, such as the Tokyo Tower and the Imperial Palace Plaza, as well as driving through a number of the city's lively shopping districts. Free hotel pick-up is available.

Boat Tours
The Tokyo Cruise Ship Company (tel: (03) 5733 4812; website: www.suijobus.co.jp) runs a regular waterbus service along the Sumida River, between Asakusa, the Hama Rikyu Gardens, and Hinode Pier. The trip takes 40 minutes (one way). The company also operates a variety of other waterbus services around Tokyo Bay, lasting between 5 and 55 minutes. Vingt-et-Un Cruises (tel: (03) 3436 2121; website: www.vantean.co.jp) and Symphony Cruises (tel: (03) 3798 8101; website: www.symphony-cruise.co.jp/english/) offers daytime and evening boat cruises between 1 and 2 hours around Tokyo Bay. The latter depart from the Hinode Pier.

Other Tours
See Tokyo from a rickshaw and discover areas seldom seen by other tourists. Asakusa's Rickshaw Tour Guides (tel: (03) 5806 8881; website: www.ebisuya.com) operate daily from 0900 to dusk from near the Asakusa pier on the Sumidagawa River and surrounding areas.