Walking Tours
The Tokyo Tourist Information Office (tel: (03) 3201 3331; 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) 517 673; www.homestead.com/mroka/) offers free walking tours of the city, in English, by appointment only. 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; www.hatobus.co.jp), JTB Sunrise Tours (tel: (03) 5796 5454; www.jtb-sunrisetours.jp) and Japan Gray Line (tel: (03) 3595 5948; 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. These tours 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; 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; www.vantean.co.jp) and Symphony Cruises (tel: (03) 3798 8101; www.symphony-cruise.co.jp/english) offer daytime and evening boat cruises lasting between 1 and 2 hours around Tokyo Bay.

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