Magical Trip
Bar, Club & Pub Tours • Cultural Tours • Walking Tours • Night Tours • Food Tours
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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM
Monday
10:00 AM - 9:00 PM
Tuesday
10:00 AM - 9:00 PM
Wednesday
10:00 AM - 9:00 PM
Thursday
10:00 AM - 9:00 PM
Friday
10:00 AM - 9:00 PM
Saturday
10:00 AM - 9:00 PM
Sunday
10:00 AM - 9:00 PM
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MagicalTrip offers various "small-group" experience-based tours led by locals, such as bar-hopping and food tours featuring local drinking holes and local foods, cycling tours, walking tours and so on. What is so special of our tours? -Local experience Don’t finish your trip to Japan only with something everyone does, join our tours if you want something unique in your trip. Our guide bring you a lot of knowledge and insights into Japanese culture, smile and laughs ;) -Friendly and Fun You will hang out with a super friendly local guide. So it’s different from the normal tour that is usually formal and you feel bored sometimes. Our guides are so bright that you’ll definitely feel welcomed. -Knowledgeable As mentioned above, our guides are very friendly and bright. But, at the same time, they are so knowledgeable that you may ask them any question about Japan/Japanese culture. Hope to see you and have a nice time together :)
Shinjuku, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan

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Private and Luxury
3 hours
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Walking Tours
3 hours
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Walking Tours
3 hours
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Private and Luxury
3 hours
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Private and Luxury
3 hours
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Jeremy
1 contribution
Feb 2020 • Friends
Our guide was incredible helpful and pleasant. Our group had a wonderful time enjoying a taste of what Shibuya has to offer and would highly recommend it to anyone else. The selection of dishes and drinks was well put together and allowed our group to experience a good set of options. I would totally go on this again with our guide Haruna!
Written February 16, 2020
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charlenekca
Los Altos, CA19 contributions
Jan 2020 • Family
We enjoyed this tour. The kids (7 and 15) both seemed very engaged. We only wish it were longer! The monster cafe was super fun. The food is ok, but kids loved the atmosphere. They liked the photo booth as well. Our tour guide, Yumiko, was so nice and wonderful. It was very crowded due to the new year holiday and she went out of her way to make sure that we had an enjoyable experience. It is sometimes a bit hard in Japan not speaking Japanese, so I felt very relieved to have Yumiko lead the way. She was very helpful and so so nice! We highly recommend the tour!
Written January 3, 2020
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Jacquie L
11 contributions
Feb 2020 • Couples
Had a fun night bar hopping in Shinjuku last night. Mai is very helpful and looked after us all very well. Lots of food and drink options. Only downside was sharing with another table of smokers at our first stop. Thanks Mai
Written February 24, 2020
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Departure61657789755
London, UK1 contribution
Apr 2023 • Couples
Beware of this operator. If you are late for your tour you will lose your money and they will make no effort to help you, even if you offer to pay extra. We arrived 20 minutes late for our booked foodie trip in Osaka (due to a misread tube map and a useless, GPS-less taxi driver). We emailed MT and asked if we could go the following evening (our last in Osaka). We got no reply so we turned up on the off chance (cutting short a day trip to Nara) in hope - my wife really wanted to do this tour. Only two other customers arrived, along with the tour guide. We explained the situation to her and offered to pay any and all additional surcharges, fees, costs, etc. My wife even offered to pay the whole cost again (which I thought was excessive). The other customers wanted us on the tour, as did the tour guide. But the office, who she was on the phone to, wouldn't budge. So they got our money, we got nothing. In subsequent email exchanges they talked about their "rules". But this was just an inflexible, heartless attitude. It would have cost them nothing and made all the difference to us.
Written May 9, 2023
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Magical T
Thank you for your review. And we are sorry that you couldn't join our tour. We instruct all our guides to wait for their guests for 10 minutes to all show up but not any longer because that's the longest to push back for the tour to go on on time. And since our tours are not private, we find it only fair to make waiting time as less as possible for those who show up on time. Also these restaurants we use are pre-reserved and we pay for the seats whether guests show up or not. I understand your anger but we hope you understand. And since we pre-reserve those restaurants, we are afraid that we cannot accept guests on the day because those restaurants might not be able to accommodate us if the group was increased by just one. Once we get rejcted by the restaurant we might not be able to find any other places to dine. That's the last thing we want for our guests. Again, we are sorry that you couldn't make the tour. Sincerely, MagicalTrip Support Team
Written May 25, 2023
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Marissa N
Lansing1 contribution
Feb 2020 • Couples
Shoon was amazing! Took us to some great spots and had great drinks and food. There was one other couple and a set of siblings, we didn't know either group but all had easy conversation and stayed at the last place for extra drinks. We had some issues arise the day of and Shoon and the team were so helpful and accommodating.
Written February 22, 2020
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Stephanie K
Austin, TX3 contributions
May 2018 • Couples
Had high hopes for this based on the reviews but the tour was not at all as advertised. The first bar was a cute izakaya - food good, nothing special, but at least delivered on the authentic tiny bar experience. Second place was ok, in a food court a train ride away in Ebisu and our guide seemed to know very little about the area. Nice person but super inexperienced and clearly uncomfortable with the restaurants and tour route. The third stop was an absolutely ridiculous "Italian deli". In Japan. On an izakaya tour. There was no one else in there and the menu was so unappetizing not a single person even ordered food.

Also, a note on the tour fee: It's not clear from the description, but none of the food/drinks are included (except for a round of sake, but there is still a required food/drink purchase at each stop).

Overall this tour was not at all worth the cost or the precious time in Tokyo. Our whole group left feeling confused and disappointed about this completely inauthentic experience.
Written May 30, 2018
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We would like to sincerely apologize for your negative experience on our tour. Thank you for taking your time to give us the honest feedback. Following your feedback, we have updated our tour content. We change the third place into more Japanese style izakaya with Japanese traditional small foods and drinks. Also, most of foods and drinks from various types are included in the tour price. We provide our customers with a special menu only available on our tour and give them much cheaper than the actual price. Again, we are very sorry to hear that you face the problem. We maintain our standards and try to keep improving our guides' ability and tour content. Magical Trip
Written June 21, 2018
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jl213hom10
Tokyo, Japan5 contributions
Apr 2018 • Couples
My review was removed once. Please don’t again. I was a customer

It was too expensive for what you get, Food was sub par not much is included in the price and we had to pay more.

After the guide left we continued on after the tour with the new people we met and found much better food options and actually had a more enjoyable time. Im sure there are better tour deals out there. We should of done more research

We had high expectations and were let down. Our guide was nice but was not informative enough about the area and did not seem to want to make conversation.

I wouldn’t recommend this to anyone looking for a unique fun magical even a good experience.
Written April 26, 2018
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Nomad54904573118
Thank you very much for your review. The satisfaction of our customers is always our top priority and we really appreciate your honest feedback towards our tour. As we are now trying to expand our business so as to provide more unique and local experiences to travelers from all over the world, the training of guides and good selections of venues are indeed big issues we need to keep working on. I extend our sincerest apologies on behalf of our team for not being able to provide experience that is good enough to reach your expectations. We will keep on improving our service and provide better service to our customers. Thank you for choosing our service. Yours sincerely, Magical Trip Support Team
Written October 1, 2019
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Q6687IUanonymous
California6 contributions
May 2018 • Couples
Our tour guide was very friendly and we enjoyed her company, but she did not speak great English. We found her hard to understand. More importantly, she did not take us to interesting places and skipped taking us to any of the bars in Golden Gai. The food at the first bar was barely mediocre, which was surprising, given all of the other wonderful meals we had in Japan. I suggest finding another tour.
Written May 30, 2018
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Nomad54904573118
Hello, Thank you for joining our tour and for taking your time to leave us an honest feedback. We extend our sincerest apologies on behalf of our team for not being able to provide an experience that was good enough to meet your expectations. We will try to improve the quality of the tour based on your feedback. So we appreciate the honest feedback. Again, we are so sorry for not being able to give you a good experience. Thank you so much for choosing us. Yours Sincerely, Magical Trip Support Team
Written October 1, 2019
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eleanor c
Calgary, Canada8 contributions
Dec 2019
Our tour was confirmed 2 months before with printed tickets, etc. When we were there, the tour guide cannot find our names on her list. The local tour office was not available and no one contacted us. Although Viator gave us a full refund, it was GREATLY DISAPPOINTING as it was our last night there! We used Viator for years and this is the first time that this happened. Very very disappointed. I will give a zero star if I can.
Written December 29, 2019
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Nomad54904573118
Hello, thank you for choosing our experience and taking your time to leave us the honest feedback. We are sorry for not being able to provide you with the tour. We will try to figure it out not to happen any troubles like this. Again, we are very sorry we could not provide you with our experience. Sincerely, Magical Trip Support Team
Written February 12, 2020
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hanz1
nz15 contributions
Oct 2019
We had such a fun night, and really enjoyed the introduction to the popular drinking areas. Nice introduction to Japanese food.
Written October 24, 2019
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