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elliotnotsam2
パーク シティ, ユタ州167件の投稿
Amazing unique experience with a knowledgeable interesting Brit who moved to Japan 22 years ago. Sinon survived the pandemic and loves both owning and operating a tour of a very local Japanese community to share food and beverage experiences with visitors. The experience, food and lots of drinks was fabulous but Simon's personality, passion and stories were even better. Don't think about it. Just book the tour.
投稿日：2023年5月6日
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Travel4Foods
マウンテン ビュー, カリフォルニア29件の投稿
2023年4月
I'm a snob. I don't pay for tours. I always secretly, or not so secretly, suspect that with a bit of research and legwork I can plan something more... (takes a deep breath) AUTHENTIC than a "tour" will usually provide.
I worked for many years in theme parks. I have seen how the vacationing sausage is made, and I am suspicious of prepackaged goods when it comes to tourism.
I patently fear the moment, while on a tour, that I realize I have paid for a cheesy, off-the-rack experience that not only could I have planned myself, but I certainly wouldn't have. This elicits in me a kind of shame usually reserved for kindergartners picked last at football. I am pleased to report, as you may guess by the star rating, that this was not that.
I took what I considered to be a risk on this tour for the following reasons:
- I like food
- I like drinking
- Intrigued in general by concept of "back alleys"
- Favorite video game protagonist lives here. You know fictionally. In a game. I didn't see him around, anyway.
- Like most Americans I thirst for an AUTHENTIC TRAVEL EXPERIENCE LIKE THE LOCALS while knowing deep down this is impossible to achieve when parachuting into a culture on the other side of the planet for nine days, so I paid someone.
At the time I had no idea who Simon was - Simon will take you on the tour, you see - and Simon is one of the best people to take you on such a tour for the following reasons:
- Speaks fluent English. Because he's English.
- Speaks Japanese much better than me and probably you, if you are looking at this tour, because he has lived there 22 years
- Actually inhabits the area you are paying him to show you
- Seems to really enjoy his job.
- Seems to really enjoy your company. Whether or not he is faking it is irrelevant to you, you have paid him and he is a professional. (He has assured me via email that he was not faking it, which he can never prove, but I respect the move and have decided to believe him. For now.)
Traipsing around Sangen-gaya with Simon felt like meeting a friend you haven't seen in a while, a friend who ran off to become an expat earlier in life who you both vaguely judge, but moreso envy. The formalities of the tour, as described here or on their website, Tokyo Memories, is that Simon will take you to three establishments that you might have a hard time finding on your own for food and drink. It really adds up to quite a bit more than that.
Simon took us down some alleys that I would not have gone down on my own. That is not because they seemed truly dangerous. I lived in Boston, and Washington DC which are, whether you are considering germs, violence, or permanent dissociation from chronic anxiety, frankly a thousand times more dangerous than anywhere in Japan. They just looked TINY and UNPROMISING. I had come to realize how profoundly that Japan is built different, and as a foreigner, with little language skills, you will actually have a hard time eating ANYWHERE.
This again is not because Japan is not generally hospitable. You just WILL NOT KNOW what a restaurant looks like. In America a restaurant looks a certain way. It usually has a huge sign, in your language to boot, a ton of windows, maybe a terrace, probably a parking lot. Maybe a sign you can see from a highway.
No. Not here. Be disabused of this notion now. Good places to eat have a small cloth flag at street level leading to what you will think is a terminally shady alleyway and a stair or elevator that goes seven floors up to an unmarked, or subtly marked, in Japanese, door to your left (don't go right; that's a salon that "melts fat" with electrodes, and straight is just some old lady's house). (I am not exaggerating. I absolutely at one point walked right into an old lady's house. Looking for Udon.) They will often be full. They will often not speak that much English, despite what you have been told, and which is their right, being Japanese and all.
I had done my best to educate myself, yet was unprepared for the scale of difficulty finding walk-in places to eat that were open, had room, and could, or would communicate with me. I was honestly tired and hungry a lot. Could I go back in time, I would, well, I would have started Japanese duolingo before I got on the train from the airport to Osaka, originally, but I would also hire Simon or somebody like him in the BEGINNING of my tour, perhaps several nights in a row in different neighborhoods. It wasn't only fun, it was INFORMATIVE and NECCESSARY to learn to navigate Japanese neighborhoods with any alacrity. Because of my own schedule I put this tour near the end of my trip and thought nine times throughout, "Good Lord, but only if Simon had been there to tell me X previously, I would not have felt faint of glucose so often, nor interrupted that kind old lady who may or may not have sold udon." He's just handy, see.
For me, a tremendous amount of the value was in having a guide familiar with a place and the people, but also familiar with my background, to bridge this gap and show me nooks and crannies I wouldn't find alone. His good company was a bonus. The food and drink, the actual stated offering of the tour - well it was good. I think he did a solid job of choosing variety, which for us was:
-onomonoyaki, at an upstairs local joint equivalent perhaps to a waffle house, except they let you make your own parallel universe waffles and junk food which I found quite fun.
-Some tiny local dive I will NEVER find again which serves what I can only call vintage beverages you can't find most places, as well as deeply, deeply fried foods on sticks. A surly kid with bleached blonde hair cooked it all up in the same fryer behind the smallest bar in the universe flanked by two deeply, deeply "authentic" chainsmoking regulars who consumed their beverages in stoic silence, like a still from Cowboy Bebop, a living Japanese analogue to my deceased Irish grandfather who dutifully drank himself to the grave behind the bar at the Hibernian's Club. This was actually my favorite. Because I know I'd never, never, ever have found it. I only hope our brief stay was not too annoying to the locals, I am grateful for the experience.
- An upscale sake bar with very fine sakes, appetizers and sashimi, a stark and delightful contrast to the previous two, and a warm and welcoming place to relax. Simon can tell you all about the sake grades. I worked in sushi joints growing up and still knew so little by comparison.
Let me be clear: you go for the variety. The new experience. Some of the foods may not appeal to you, but that is frankly the point. Simon was very responsive to emails and will do his best to tailor an experience to your needs, but please be aware:
-Many places he may take you will be SMALL. They may or may not have western seating - if you cannot sit on the floor, you should say.
-Alcohol is a feature - you could certainly enjoy this sober, by request, still a fabulous time, but tasting local beverages is intended as part of the experience.
- Smoking is allowed in many little local places. While I do not enjoy the smell of cigarettes for the most part, if you can deal with it at all, I do recommend doing so. You'll cut out a lot of niche places if you refuse to. For me, the sensation of smoke quickly fell by the wayside in favor of my enjoyment.
- Please remember when you book this tour that Simon and the locals are real people who don't exist solely for the purpose of our tourism. If you express mutual interest in Simon and the surroundings you will have a much better and deeper experience than if you treat this as a Disneyland tour. Later in the evening I felt comfortable, or inebriated enough to ask Simon directly, given the length and conversational nature of the tour, if he'd ever had a client that was just insufferable, and of course he had - someone who appeared to not have really read the description and went home early because they planned poorly around jetlag, which meant he cancelled on local establishments and damaged his own rapport with them. Please don't do that. He is putting himself out a bit with is many years of experience to get you somewhere you couldn't get alone. Also note the volume level and behavior of others in the space and just do well to mimic them as well you can. It WILL be appreciated.
In summary, please hire Simon for every neighborhood you can, especially if you are an English speaker with little or no Japanese experience. Ask questions, learn things, and enjoy experiences you can't find alone. Travel planning is exhausting, and I am now convinced of the value of tours overseas.
I worked for many years in theme parks. I have seen how the vacationing sausage is made, and I am suspicious of prepackaged goods when it comes to tourism.
I patently fear the moment, while on a tour, that I realize I have paid for a cheesy, off-the-rack experience that not only could I have planned myself, but I certainly wouldn't have. This elicits in me a kind of shame usually reserved for kindergartners picked last at football. I am pleased to report, as you may guess by the star rating, that this was not that.
I took what I considered to be a risk on this tour for the following reasons:
- I like food
- I like drinking
- Intrigued in general by concept of "back alleys"
- Favorite video game protagonist lives here. You know fictionally. In a game. I didn't see him around, anyway.
- Like most Americans I thirst for an AUTHENTIC TRAVEL EXPERIENCE LIKE THE LOCALS while knowing deep down this is impossible to achieve when parachuting into a culture on the other side of the planet for nine days, so I paid someone.
At the time I had no idea who Simon was - Simon will take you on the tour, you see - and Simon is one of the best people to take you on such a tour for the following reasons:
- Speaks fluent English. Because he's English.
- Speaks Japanese much better than me and probably you, if you are looking at this tour, because he has lived there 22 years
- Actually inhabits the area you are paying him to show you
- Seems to really enjoy his job.
- Seems to really enjoy your company. Whether or not he is faking it is irrelevant to you, you have paid him and he is a professional. (He has assured me via email that he was not faking it, which he can never prove, but I respect the move and have decided to believe him. For now.)
Traipsing around Sangen-gaya with Simon felt like meeting a friend you haven't seen in a while, a friend who ran off to become an expat earlier in life who you both vaguely judge, but moreso envy. The formalities of the tour, as described here or on their website, Tokyo Memories, is that Simon will take you to three establishments that you might have a hard time finding on your own for food and drink. It really adds up to quite a bit more than that.
Simon took us down some alleys that I would not have gone down on my own. That is not because they seemed truly dangerous. I lived in Boston, and Washington DC which are, whether you are considering germs, violence, or permanent dissociation from chronic anxiety, frankly a thousand times more dangerous than anywhere in Japan. They just looked TINY and UNPROMISING. I had come to realize how profoundly that Japan is built different, and as a foreigner, with little language skills, you will actually have a hard time eating ANYWHERE.
This again is not because Japan is not generally hospitable. You just WILL NOT KNOW what a restaurant looks like. In America a restaurant looks a certain way. It usually has a huge sign, in your language to boot, a ton of windows, maybe a terrace, probably a parking lot. Maybe a sign you can see from a highway.
No. Not here. Be disabused of this notion now. Good places to eat have a small cloth flag at street level leading to what you will think is a terminally shady alleyway and a stair or elevator that goes seven floors up to an unmarked, or subtly marked, in Japanese, door to your left (don't go right; that's a salon that "melts fat" with electrodes, and straight is just some old lady's house). (I am not exaggerating. I absolutely at one point walked right into an old lady's house. Looking for Udon.) They will often be full. They will often not speak that much English, despite what you have been told, and which is their right, being Japanese and all.
I had done my best to educate myself, yet was unprepared for the scale of difficulty finding walk-in places to eat that were open, had room, and could, or would communicate with me. I was honestly tired and hungry a lot. Could I go back in time, I would, well, I would have started Japanese duolingo before I got on the train from the airport to Osaka, originally, but I would also hire Simon or somebody like him in the BEGINNING of my tour, perhaps several nights in a row in different neighborhoods. It wasn't only fun, it was INFORMATIVE and NECCESSARY to learn to navigate Japanese neighborhoods with any alacrity. Because of my own schedule I put this tour near the end of my trip and thought nine times throughout, "Good Lord, but only if Simon had been there to tell me X previously, I would not have felt faint of glucose so often, nor interrupted that kind old lady who may or may not have sold udon." He's just handy, see.
For me, a tremendous amount of the value was in having a guide familiar with a place and the people, but also familiar with my background, to bridge this gap and show me nooks and crannies I wouldn't find alone. His good company was a bonus. The food and drink, the actual stated offering of the tour - well it was good. I think he did a solid job of choosing variety, which for us was:
-onomonoyaki, at an upstairs local joint equivalent perhaps to a waffle house, except they let you make your own parallel universe waffles and junk food which I found quite fun.
-Some tiny local dive I will NEVER find again which serves what I can only call vintage beverages you can't find most places, as well as deeply, deeply fried foods on sticks. A surly kid with bleached blonde hair cooked it all up in the same fryer behind the smallest bar in the universe flanked by two deeply, deeply "authentic" chainsmoking regulars who consumed their beverages in stoic silence, like a still from Cowboy Bebop, a living Japanese analogue to my deceased Irish grandfather who dutifully drank himself to the grave behind the bar at the Hibernian's Club. This was actually my favorite. Because I know I'd never, never, ever have found it. I only hope our brief stay was not too annoying to the locals, I am grateful for the experience.
- An upscale sake bar with very fine sakes, appetizers and sashimi, a stark and delightful contrast to the previous two, and a warm and welcoming place to relax. Simon can tell you all about the sake grades. I worked in sushi joints growing up and still knew so little by comparison.
Let me be clear: you go for the variety. The new experience. Some of the foods may not appeal to you, but that is frankly the point. Simon was very responsive to emails and will do his best to tailor an experience to your needs, but please be aware:
-Many places he may take you will be SMALL. They may or may not have western seating - if you cannot sit on the floor, you should say.
-Alcohol is a feature - you could certainly enjoy this sober, by request, still a fabulous time, but tasting local beverages is intended as part of the experience.
- Smoking is allowed in many little local places. While I do not enjoy the smell of cigarettes for the most part, if you can deal with it at all, I do recommend doing so. You'll cut out a lot of niche places if you refuse to. For me, the sensation of smoke quickly fell by the wayside in favor of my enjoyment.
- Please remember when you book this tour that Simon and the locals are real people who don't exist solely for the purpose of our tourism. If you express mutual interest in Simon and the surroundings you will have a much better and deeper experience than if you treat this as a Disneyland tour. Later in the evening I felt comfortable, or inebriated enough to ask Simon directly, given the length and conversational nature of the tour, if he'd ever had a client that was just insufferable, and of course he had - someone who appeared to not have really read the description and went home early because they planned poorly around jetlag, which meant he cancelled on local establishments and damaged his own rapport with them. Please don't do that. He is putting himself out a bit with is many years of experience to get you somewhere you couldn't get alone. Also note the volume level and behavior of others in the space and just do well to mimic them as well you can. It WILL be appreciated.
In summary, please hire Simon for every neighborhood you can, especially if you are an English speaker with little or no Japanese experience. Ask questions, learn things, and enjoy experiences you can't find alone. Travel planning is exhausting, and I am now convinced of the value of tours overseas.
投稿日：2023年4月11日
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Shannon S
ミネアポリス, ミネソタ州27件の投稿
2023年4月 • ファミリー
Wonderful experience. Highly recommend. An absolute highlight of our trip.
Thank you for a great time.
Thank you for a great time.
投稿日：2023年4月9日
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Dinusha G
メルボルン, オーストラリア39件の投稿
What a wonderful tour this was. We had Simon who took us around so we could taste so many different foods. All those pictures you see on Instagram of food - well Simon knows where the real and authentic versions of those are where the quality is better, you don’t have to wait in lines and it’s more true Japan in suburbs you won’t normally visit. We ate so much food that by the last one, we were so full that we could hardly move. It was one of our favourite tours as we got to see areas of Tokyo we wouldn’t have otherwise ventured to. If you want to try good food or even see all the foods you see picture and videos of on social media without the fuss and lines and with good quality foods locals would eat, then don’t hesitate to book this trip.
投稿日：2023年4月8日
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honolulu8件の投稿
2023年3月
Had a great time with Simon. He was such a gracious host and the places he took us was where the locals would go and have a great meal. I would recommend anyone who wants to try back alley private food and drink tour and go where locals go eat after late hours.
投稿日：2023年4月7日
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Steve m
3件の投稿
2023年2月 • カップル・夫婦
Jump into a Tokyo neighborhood and immerse in local cuisine and culture. Very authentic. Simon is easy to connect with and communicates well prior to tour.
投稿日：2023年3月25日
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doc2lon
Linwood, New Jersey USA21件の投稿
2023年2月
Didn't realize Simon was the mayor of Tokyo...but apparently, he is. Crazy fun tour and great (some less than) food tastings...and some Sake to add a punch. Next trip will have to Simon-up again.
投稿日：2023年3月18日
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Glenn
24件の投稿
2022年11月 • 一人
I’ve been meaning to recognize the Sangenjaya Back Alleys Food & Drink tour as one of the best experiences I had in Tokyo. I spent 3 weeks traveling all over Japan, and this tour was one of the most memorable. It was a phenomenal “off the beaten path”, culturally immersive experiences I had. Simon, the tour guide, and I literally weaved through back alleys, hitting up mom and pop restaurants and tiny Izakayas, mingling with locals and sampling some very local, and what I would call Japanese Soul Food. Even learned a bit of the Japanese language along the way? Highly recommend!
投稿日：2023年3月15日
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M A
1件の投稿
2023年3月 • 友達
What an amazing tour! This guy has a great knowledge of the area, is super laid back and friendly and showed me a side to Tokyo that I would never have been able to see on my own. He takes you off the beaten track, into superb little alley ways where there are hidden gems of small intimate bars and restaurants. I had a great time and thoroughly recommend. Well worth the money!
投稿日：2023年3月12日
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JeffB884
Los Angeles23件の投稿
2023年2月
We booked a Sangenjaya Back-Alley Private Tour, and Simon was our local guide.
In general, he did a great job. He is friendly, on time, and knowledgeable.
He also helped me pick up train tickets that were challenging. Thank you for that!
In general, he did a great job. He is friendly, on time, and knowledgeable.
He also helped me pick up train tickets that were challenging. Thank you for that!
投稿日：2023年3月11日
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Robert D
ワシントン DC, ワシントンDC地区5件の投稿
Hi, we are leading a group of ten, including my wife and I, and are very interested in an evening back alley Izakaya tour. I've read the reviews of the Sangenjaya experience led by Simon and it sounds exactly like what we are looks for. Realizing our group size is large, given the tour's description, is this either something that can be worked out or would we have to split into two groups? We would really like to keep together if possible.
Tokyo Memories
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Hi,
Thanks for your message. I can definitely accommodate a group of 10 providing I have a little notice. When are you thinking?
Regards,
Simon