Charm of ASAKUSA (Kurumaya 2/3)
It is Mr.Ishizuka, who is one of rickshaw men in the car shop KURUMAYA, saying that “Hopefully the Jinrikisha (rickshaw) is able to represent the culture of historical Japan just the same as Ninja (professional spy) and Samurai (warriors specializing in the martial arts)”. Their jinrikisha (rickshaw) operating by KURUMAYA offers extremely nice riding comfort like not becoming the thing compared with the automobile, and take you to various fan spots. Their rickshaw man in well trained as a tour guid as well for one month or more and you can exsperience offbeat downtown adventure in ASAKUSA!! Because of the high popularity, if you take a jinrikisha(rickshaw), it can be organized efficiently like 30-40 minutes tour to cover it. Don’t worry even about the person garbage at crowded time like the season of the New Year and summer holiday etc.
The Senso-ji Temple famous for the Nitenmon gate that is one of important cultural properties in Japan, the Sanja festival of Asakusa Shrine, Asian raccoon street that fulfills various wishes when worships it, and Sumida park with 1100 cherry blossoms tree etc. You can hear the inside story doesn’t get on from the guide book about special stores of the shop curtain (Noren) and Hollywood star’s favorite face oil blotting paper. The course includes SKY TREE COURSE (12,680 yen for two people for 70 minutes) to goes to the Tokyo sky tree that will rise highest tower in the world and in a recommendation course ASAKUSA COURESE (9,000 yen per one person for 60 minutes and 15,000 yen for two people) which covers whole ASAKUSA area, and EASY COURESE (5,000 yen per one person for 30 minutes and 8,000 yen for two people). Other courses for 80 minutes and 150 minutes are also available.
| Name / Price | Recommend (Osusume) Course:60min, one person 9,000yen, two person 15,000.yen |
| Course | Bentendo/Toki no Kane -> Asakusa Jinja -> Senso-ji ->Sumida Park ->Kaminarimon->Asakusa Engei hall->Hanayasiki -> Denboin dori -> AsakusaKoukaido/Star’s place |
| Name / Price | Otegaru West (Half way West) Course:30min, one person 5,000yen, two person 8,000yen |
| Course | Orange dori -> Tanuki dori -> Rock dori -> Asakusa Engei hall -> Rock Kaiwai -> Hana Yashiki -> Denpoin dori ->AsakusaKoukaido/Star’s place) |
| Name / Price | Manzoku (Pleasure) Course:80min, one person 13,000yen, two person 21,000yen |
| Course | Bentendo -> Asakusa-jinja-> Senso-ji -> Matsuchiyama Shoten -> Imado-jinja -> Sumida Park -> Rock Shitamachi -> AsakusaKoukaido/Star’s place |
| Name / Price | Odaijin (Millionaire) Course:150min, one person 23,000yen two person 38,000yen |
| Course | Asakusa-jinja -> Senso-ji -> Matsuchiyama Shoten -> Imado-jinja -> Hashiba-fudoson -> Ishihama-jinja ->Yoshiwara-jinja -> Ootorii-jinja ->Yasaki-jinja |
For reservation or inquiry, please contact http://jinrikishahanbai.main.jp/ (Japanese only) or send an e-mail at service@goodies-japan.co.jp (in English). We can offer special rates.