Privacy Policy

These pages describe free things to do, and that is all they do. Nothing here takes a booking, charges a card or holds a basket. Each of the 46 free walking tours covered belongs to an independent local guide, and a spot on any of them is reserved through GuruWalk, except the Shimokitazawa Offbeat walk, which is listed on freetour.com. Because the site never handles a transaction, there is very little personal information it could ever see. The sections below set out what little there is, and where responsibility passes once you leave for a guide's own page.

What A Visit Here Produces

You can read the entire site without giving anything away. No name, email or account is requested at any point. Booking works differently: you go to GuruWalk, or to the freetour.com listing for the Shimokitazawa walk, and whatever details you type in there are handled under that platform's own terms. None of it flows back to this site. What is left here is the routine technical record any browser creates when it loads a page.

The Routine Browser Record

Opening a page can write an ordinary cookie noting that it was opened. Nothing personal sits inside it. Readers are not followed from one visit to the next, and no profile for advertising is pieced together here. Anonymous counts, where they exist, say that a page was viewed and never who viewed it.

The Short Answer

• Reading costs nothing and asks for nothing. There is no sign-up, no form and no checkout anywhere on this site, since no walk is reserved and nothing is sold on it.
• All of these walks are free, pay what you want: a place is booked on GuruWalk, or on freetour.com for the Shimokitazawa Offbeat walk, and the privacy terms of the platform you book on govern any details you give there.
• Every walk link on this site is an affiliate link. Clicking one adds nothing to what a walker pays, because the walk itself is free, pay what you want, and GuruWalk, or freetour.com for the Shimokitazawa walk, pays this site a referral fee.
• Any browser lets a visitor block or clear cookies at any time, and every page here still works without them. For questions this page does not answer, an email address sits in the footer.

Your Choices

Visitors keep control of the little data this site sees. Refusing or deleting cookies in the browser changes nothing on these pages, whether a reader is browsing museum free days or the profile of a Shinjuku night walk. Booking works differently, because it never happens here. A place on a walk is reserved on GuruWalk, or on freetour.com for the Shimokitazawa Offbeat walk, and any account created there belongs to the walker, who can close it whenever they like.

Corrections, privacy questions and feedback on this page can go to the email address in the footer. Matters tied to a specific walk belong with its guide instead. The meeting point, the languages a walk runs in, or the timing of a particular departure are best raised with the guide directly, through their GuruWalk page or, for the Shimokitazawa Offbeat walk, its freetour.com listing. Those guides run their own walks. This site operates nothing and takes no bookings of any kind.