The Dark Side Of Tokyo - Night Walking Tour Shinjuku Kabukicho

We loved it. Our first night in Tokyo, and it so it was fun to get an introduction to some of the areas. Our guide was Loc, he was great!!

Excellent tour. Very informative. Danny was very knowledgeable and friendly. Highly recommended tour.

It is definitely more about the dark side than it is about food. Very informative. Enthusiastic, articulate guide.

Who knew the red light area was so big. Loc was a great guide. Funny and very knowledgeable. Lots to see and some eye opening areas and stories. Would highly recommend this tour.

Our tour guide Zac was excellent. He was extremely knowledgeable not just about Shinjuku but all of Japan. We thoroughly enjoyed joyed our walk around Shinjuku enjoying the terrific night atmosphere

It was a fun and unique type of tour! Including a good distance walking!

Loc is very good tour guide. Very informative and clear. My sister and I joint three walking tours. He is the best.

Our guide Loc was excellent. Very knowledgeable and provided lots of info. The description of the tour could be enhanced as it was different than expected! Shoukd keep the timing to two hours max. Would recommend.

That Tokyo has a fascinating dark side with unique features and characters. The tour guide was what I was looking for as he was very transparent and knowledgeable. I highly recommend this tour which is affordable and great.

LOC is excellent tour guide.Learn a lot from him about Shinjuku

Awesome guide (Loc). Very interesting!

Pauline was an excellent tour guide and her knowledge of all things Japan, including her extensive history was very interesting. We saw things that we would not have seen or learned about without her and we give her a 10/10 review. Thanks Pauline

Our guide Danny gave us an excellent tour of Kabukicho. Engaging and knowledgeable and good humoured, just the right balance of detail and pace. If you want to know what really goes on behind the scenes, book this tour!

Loc was amazing very nice and very kindly. One of the best guide I ever had.

Very informative. Good humour. Overall fun experience. Danny was a great guide

It was very deep! Feel the vibes! Cloud of people, atmosphere and structure makes it so authentic! Definitely recommend.

Gray was the most knowledgable guide I’ve met in Japan, and I have been to a lot of tours. She knows the history, current events, and furure waves in Japan. Her local food recos are also the best!

Lovely educative trip about this past of tokyo , thanks Loc, for a lovely tour , i had a lovely time even as a solo traveller. All questions were answered, friendly tour guide , well spoken , friendly and knew the history of the areas shown. Thanks for a lovely evening

Dani was an excellent tour guide, very informative and kind!

Dani was very good, I had a lot of fun exploring little secrets of Tokyo. Thank you very much

Great insight into the seedier side of Tokyo's night-life and culture. Our guide Loc was excellent. Very unique

Loc was very informative and friendly. Had a good time crawling through various Shinjuku streets and getting all the insights. Can only recommend!

Loc was great and gave interesting insights to the night life.

Loc was fantastic. We are so glad we did this tour, Loc answered all the things we were wondering about. I would highly recommend doing this tour with Loc if your in Shinjuku. He also recommended some good places to eat at after the tour. 10/10

What an amazing tour. Loc is a super guide. Would definately recommend to this to visitors. Certainly learned alot about the culture.

Loc was an amazing guide! very informative and kind. great sense of humour and very professional. he had a lot of fun personal tidbits as well that really personalised the experience!

Huey was amazing. Very entertaining and so helpful throughout the whole tour. He was very knowledgeable and very charismatic would definitely go back to take this tour !!!

I booked this tour for my family of 4, and unfortunately, the experience, or lack thereof, was extremely disappointing from the start. We were running slightly behind this evening and attempted to contact the guide. I was shocked to discover that there was no courtesy check-in prior to the meetup time. Had the guide sent a simple message to confirm our attendance, (normal practice) we would have had the opportunity to explain our delay. Instead, I sent an email just 20 minutes past the scheduled time asking if we could still meet up with the group. Miyuki, the guide, replied that this wasn't possible, stating that the "tour has already started, and the guide is walking through the dark streets with the other participants. For everyones safety, we do not arrange for guests to join the tour after it has started. " The wording implied that the route was fixed, unsafe, or too difficult to pause as if the guide was already deep in a challenging or risky area. However, we decided to walk the checkpoints ourselves to see if we could catch up and we found no sign of the group whatsoever. The streets were not particularly dark, dangerous, or difficult to navigate. It became clear that the "dark streets" excuse was exaggerated at best, and misleading at worst. The guide simply wasn't accommodating, and the response felt like a scripted refusal rather than a genuine safety or logistical concern. We are extremely disappointed to have wasted £75 on a service we couldn't use, especially when the reason given didn't match reality. Guide unhelpful and we are out £75 . AVOID!

Loc was a great guide, very kind and knowledgeable. We hugely enjoyed the tour, discovered lots of places and things we wouldn’t otherwise have known about. 100% recommend!

Our guide, a Ukranian who has been living in Japan for years, was great! Nice little tour going through the Kabukicho district, and it was nice to go through the other two districts as well.

amazing! Really great guide and very caring and

Polina was an excellent guide and in two hours showed us much more of the Tokyo nightlife than we ever would’ve been able to figure out on our own. We highly recommend.

Our guide Polina is great guide, she showed us a lot of interesting places and gave many explanations and useful advices, highly recommend this tour to get familiar with this colourful area!

Polina did an absolute phenomenal job guiding my friends and me through Shinjuku on the 'Dark Side of Tokyo' tour! I highly recommend booking this for your first night in the city. We learned so much fascinating history and insider info about the area. My only regret is that we didn't have more time to explore and eat at all of the restaurant recommendations. A must-do 5-star experience!

We loved this tour!! Our tour guide Huy was so funny and really knew all the little secrets of the dark side of Shinjuku. We saw spots I would have just walked by. Touring the city at night was incredible because it gets chaotic and there are so many groups of people to see and watch. We even stayed a little longer for Izakayas on Memory Street and had some great food. Would not recommend for young kids as there are secrets of the city they are not ready to hear about haha.

Bolina was a great tour guide!

My wife , Michelle & I from New Zealand did this 2hr tour with 7 others from 7pm . Paulina was a fantastic guide ; she took us to places we would never have found ; so my best suggestion is do this on arrival to Tokyo , to get some bearings . So many little alleyways & back streets into the so called Dark Spots; always felt safe . Paulina gave us information overload , maybe too much to absorb ( but this was our last nite of our 12 day Japan trip) As a tour guide back home one thing I would recommend for the guides is to have a ear/ mircrophone pieces for each on the tour; Tokyo @ night is very noisy so unless you were right next to the guide you may not have heard the info. But that said I would highly recommend Paulina & this GR8 tour . Cheers Kiwis Mike & Michelle

The guide was very knowledgeable and spoke several languages well. I was pleased that I decided to go on this tour

Our guide was very informative and though out hotrl was located in the area he provided alot of the background which would never have know about. Would recommend this if you want to discover creek Shinjuku .

The information provided was very interesting. I felt safe the entire time as I was walking through the streets. Tokyo and general is a very safe place.

I enjoyed this tour as I have never been to Shinjuku. Paulina provided a lot of history of the area and lots of tips to maximize our visit.

It was a nice and informative tour. Our tour guide gray was very helpful. The site we got to see were just what I wanted.

Got to see some of the most notable attractions, Godzilla, 3D cat billboard, temple. Nice to do at night, good pace, doable walk.

Our guide, Danny, led us on a fantastic and interesting evening walking tour of the Shinjuku area of Tokyo. I’ve been on many tours over the years, and Danny is easily one of the most engaging and insightful guides ever. This experience was a delight!

Niki did a great job in guiding us safely through the streets of Shinjuku and Kabukicho. It was very interesting and informative and her knowledge is exceptional. Had a good time on this tour and wished to have had it at the beginning of my Japan holiday. Thanks again for the tour and recommendation Niki.

Paulina our guide was so much fun. This was our first day in Tokyo and what a fantastic, chilled, introduction to this city. Paulina just seemed to know what we wanted instinctively. Fab!!!

We had a great tour with Loc, very interesting and funny tour. Highly recommend

We definitely had a lot of fun and learned quite a bit about lesser known Shinjuku facts. Daniel was very knowledgeable and engaging. We would 100% recommend his tours.

Great tour with Suy the funny and knowledgeable guide who walked us through the dark side of the city