Various other transportation
Hato Bus
Hato Bus is the regular sightseeing bus in Tokyo.
If you want to tour around Tokyo in a short time, it is the best way.
It provides a lot of various courses, and most courses are one-day or
half-day tours.
And it provides the courses with English, Chinese, Korean or Spanish
speaking guide.
The fare is also reasonable.
The departure place for foreign tourists is near JR Hamamatsucho station.
Sky Bus Tokyo
It is the regular sightseeing bus touring around Kokyo (Imperial Palace), the Diet Building, and Ginza.
This bus passes in front of each spot, and it takes about 45 minutes.
But this bus is the open-top double-decker. If you want to enjoy
viewing the scenery of central Tokyo, this is also one of good ways.
The departure place is near Tokyo station, and it runs every hour.
Sky
Bus Tokyo official website
Tokyo Shitamachi Bus
It is the route bus running
through the popular old town in Tokyo, and is operated by Tokyo
Metropolitan Government Bureau of Transportation. (Generally it is
called "Toei Bus".)
"Shitamachi" means "ordinary people's old town".
The route is the following, and it rund every half hour.
Tokyo station - Nihonbashi - Akihabara - Ueno - Kappa-bashi - Asakusa - Ryogoku
Tokyo Shitamachi Bus : The page in
Toei Transportation Information Official website
Toei Bus
It is a route bus operated by
Tokyo Metropolitan Government Bureau of Transportation.
It covers the whole Tokyo area, and is one of the important
transportation.
But most roads in Tokyo have a lot of traffic, so the bus sometimes
gets struck in a jam.
The punctuality of bus is lower than subway.
"Tokyo Shitamachi Bus" is one of Toei buses.
Toei
Transportation Information Official website
Tokyo Cruise Ship
It is a shipping company, and operates the pleasure boat on Sumida River and the water-buses around Tokyo Bay waterfront.
Sumida River Line is the pleasure boat from Asakusa to Hamarikyu
Gardens and Hinode Pier.
We can enjoy the scenery of Tokyo from Sumida River. It takes about
35-40 minutes.
Additionally from Hinode Pier, there are some lines to Odaiba and its surrounding area.
Tokyo
Cruise Ship official website
Taxi
In Tokyo, many taxies run.
Of course, it is one of the useful transpotations. But unfortunately
most taxi drivers are poor at English or the other languages.
If you cannot tell your destination to the driver, please take any
actions to show in characters or to point on a map.
The following taxi company has some phone operators communicating in English.
Nihon
Kotsu official website
OUTECH : Car and Limousine service
Yakatabune (Houseboat)
Yakatabune is the houseboat
that we hold a party with enjoying the view from the boat.
In Tokyo, 29 shops join the cooperative association of Yakatabune, and
most of them are along Sumida River and Tokyo Bay around from
Hamamatsucho
to Shinagawa.
Each boat can hold 15-80 people, and the cabin is like Japanese-style banquet room. And stumptuous Japanese dishes are served such as Sashimi, Tempura, Sushi and so on.
A cruise has around 2 hours and 30 minutes, and the boat starts from
its shop at lunchtime or suppertime.
Most boats tour around Sumida River, Rainbow Bridge and Odaiba.
Basically, advance reservations in a group are required, and you must
pay the fee to the bank account in advance.
The cruise costs about 8,000-12,000 yen per person
Some shops operate the share-board boats. They accept the reservation
of a small group. But in that case, the starting days and times are
usually limited.
Additionally, a few tours by Hato Bus include the cruise by Yakatabune.
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