Ultimate Tokyo Imperial Palace Guide: Private Tours, locations, everything | Tokyo

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1. I was lucky enough to tour the Imperial Palace in 1997 and got to bring along my tiny maltese dog Babe. It was a beautiful day and all was going well, until my dog Babe got away from me and went under a huge black lacquered door. I ran to the door, got on my hands and knees looked into the bottom gap of the door and starting yelling for her to come to me "....right now!", before I knew it the palace guards had me sitting up straight but still on my knee's with guns in my face yelling at me in Japanese. Two pushed me to the ground with my hands behind my head and began to frisk me. A fellow tour, an older Japanese women came up to the guards, bowed low and than explained to the guards what had happened and they dog was still on the other side of the big doors. I thanked the nice lady in Japanese but the guards still would not let me up or move. After more guard cars came and this female guard with a big animal wire looped pole to catch mean big animals; I was finally stood up, taken to a black unmarked car and sat in it for two hours. With the very nice fellow tourist lady refusing to leave me. After two and half long hours another car showed up; after the palace closed down that whole section of the palace gardens we were touring, this very nice lady dressed in a business suite, skirt and all spoke englsh with me and said they were very sorry and that a Palace employee would be bringing my dog to me very shortly. I asked why was my dog kept in the palace for so long. She explained to me that my dog Babe, had gotten all the way to the private gardens of the Emperor and a lady in waiting to the Empress found my dog drinking from a koi pond belong to the Empress. I asked if my Empress meet my dog. The nice lady said no, due to the Emperor and Empress being in London, but several of the Ladies in Waiting to the Empress enjoyed my dogs company for a while before calling the Palace Household Agency. About fifteen minutes more and those big lacquered doors I looked under opened a beautiful lady dressed in the finest silk kimono came out followed two more guards dressed differently than the one's who had me on the ground. She came right up to me with Babe in her arms; with Babe looking very smug; the heffer, and handed me Babe. She said a few words to me; leaned over to kiss babe, bowed very low to me, turned and went back in the gates. than with a loud boom; the doors closed behind her. I was than escorted out by car top the entrance we came into, out of the palace and driven straight to my hotel. My Babe had be bathed, combed out beautifully, perfumed up and was wearing a gorgeous silk hand embroidered little over-coat. And when we checked out of our hotel; we had found out that the Palace had paid our bill. Now that is a Palace experience Although i would not like to repeat it. Thanks for reading, Joe.
2. Wear your walking shoes!
3. I must have missed an entire half of the grounds when I went. You didn't get any shots of the remains of the burned palace or some of the smaller buildings :P I'm kicking myself for missing out on the bridge gahh
4. is it possible to visit there without the tour?
5. I went to the imperial palace last week! they allowed my family to join the tour even though we didn't book online
6. i liked it but i was expecting more
7. Beautiful! Japan is a country I really would like to visit! Have you made a video about the Great Buddha of Kamakura?
8. thank you so much... i like all your videos... short but informative.
9. Great! How about 4k?
10. Awesome. I really hope I get the chance to visit Tokyo and see half of the things you've shown. Great job as usual and now onto the skytree vid as I stalk your channel lol.
11. 日本人ですが、クオリティの高い素敵な動画ばかりなので、いつも拝見しています。日本人にとっても知らないことや行ったことのない場所の解説もあって見ていてとても参考になります。私にとっては英語のリスニング勉強にもなるのでありがたいです♪応援してます！！
12. Your editing is so on point ! I need to learn from you :)
13. Hey, you misspelled "ultimate", great video though!
14. Yeah, you have been watching Casey Neistat's filming style. You look a little too clean shaven, but that's ok.
15. Did you get some kind of camera stabilizer? Did you use the Nikon for the whole shoot? What was the phone controlled camera at the end?
16. Interesting how portions of the Imperial Palace closely resemble "megalithic" structures from South America or Egypt. Pre-date anyone?
17. Love the Marunouchi side of Tokyo Station. The station itself has undergone significant changes in the last few years I've been visiting and grown so much you might want to do a video on the inside. The Higashi Gyoen Gardens next to the palace are always a must visit for me as the wide open spaces are such a contrast to the tight confines of the city.
18. Great video!
19. Great video.....which gimbal do you use?