Contact Us
Whatever brings you here, a query about the 46 pay-what-you-want walks in this directory, or about the entry rules for a park, shrine, museum or viewpoint written up beside them, the answer starts with an email. Nothing on the walking side belongs to this site: each tour is run by an independent local guide, and places are reserved through GuruWalk, or through freetour.com for the Shimokitazawa Offbeat walk. Anything the guides' own pages leave open, write in and ask.
Corrections are just as welcome as questions. Perhaps an observatory closure day has shifted, a walk now gathers somewhere other than the Hachiko Statue, or a museum's free Sunday no longer reads the same. A short email with what you noticed is enough. Fixes go in, and the next visitor reads a sharper page.
- Anything about a single walk before reserving, from where it meets to the language it runs in, answered against the guide's own page on GuruWalk or freetour.com.
- Questions about coverage are welcome as well: a Tokyo neighbourhood, a language or a kind of free attraction these pages have not touched on yet.
- A link to GuruWalk, or to the freetour.com listing for the Shimokitazawa walk, that opens nowhere and needs replacing.
- News that a guide has moved a meeting point or dropped a walk entirely, so the page can be corrected.
- Spotted a rating, a review total or a duration that no longer matches the guide's own page? Send the figure that belongs there and the entry gets corrected.
Email info@freethingstodointokyo.com
What Happens Next
Messages sent to this address are read and answered. What an email can actually change is the directory itself: a walk showing the wrong duration, a paragraph that reads badly, a free-entry rule at a museum or garden that has since moved. A booking is a different matter. Reservations sit with GuruWalk, or with freetour.com for the Shimokitazawa walk, and only the support on those platforms can amend them.
Where This Site Stops
None of the 46 free walking tours written about here is operated by this site. Every one of them belongs to an independent local guide and is reserved through GuruWalk, apart from the Shimokitazawa Offbeat walk, which is listed on freetour.com. Shifting a date, adding a companion or cancelling a place has to happen on the platform that holds the booking, because a message to this address cannot reach a guide's booking list.
No page here will ever suggest what to pay. Every walk in the roster costs the same, and that cost is not a figure: free, pay what you want. Whatever a walker chooses to hand the guide afterwards stays between those two people, and the platforms may set out their own guidance on their own pages. Payment questions belong on the walk's page at GuruWalk or freetour.com.
Complaints about a walk have a proper home, and it is not here. If a guide runs late, rushes the group or gives answers that raise doubts, the place to say so is the walk's own page on GuruWalk or, for the Shimokitazawa walk, on freetour.com, where reviews reach the guide and other walkers. A directory cannot intervene in someone else's departure or forward a message. Its reach ends at its own pages, and any description here that no longer matches the facts gets corrected.
One more boundary deserves plain words. A reservation made on GuruWalk or freetour.com belongs to the guide after that: the route, the pace and everything said during the walk are theirs, and this site has no hand in any of it. What this site does own is its own text, the meeting points it prints, the free-entry rules and each walk's listed details. Should any of those drift from reality, an email pointing it out will be read and acted on.