Tokyo Cyberpunk Street Photo Workshop
Description
What's the Story? Tokyo’s streets take on another life after dark. Wandering the neon-lit back streets of Kabukicho, the city’s major red light and entertainment district, one gets a sense of a world hidden amidst the neon haze. Seemingly secret passages lead away from the lights and into an underworld of wires and cramped locales, frequented by the denizens of the night. What We'll Shoot We will explore creative ways of shooting street photography in the night-scape of Tokyo’s most colorful districts. In addition to understanding the ideal settings for night street photography, we will learn how to creatively use reflections, and how to capture silhouettes while shooting in high contrast or very dark conditions. Where We'll Explore We'll delve into the heart of Shinjuku and Shibuya. We start off at Shinjuku Station, head towards Kabukicho, and end up in Omoideyokocho (Memory Lane). After that we'll go by train to Shibuya and ending our journey in the famous scramble crossing.
Tour Options
Itinerary
Kabukicho
Memory Lane
Shibuya crossing
Highlights
What's included
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Reviews(168)
The workshop was great! We walked a lot, and I learned so much about techniques, framing, and camera settings. The places we photographed were absolutely incredible.
Great experience with a wonderful guide who explained every stop we made. Well worth the money and got to see all aspects of Tokyo’s nightlife.
I cannot recommend this tour and this company enough. I have taken four trips with Charles he is extremely friendly and a great teacher. I am a serious photographer and he taught me many things and I went with my brother only uses his phone and he enjoyed the tour very much. I can also highly recommend Lee and the old Tokyo tour, which is amazing. I also took a tour in Kyoto with a guide, who I unfortunately cannot remember his name, and we went to an absolutely amazing temple, and there was only one other visitor during the timewe explore the temple. If you know Kyoto, you know how amazing that is as you can tell I highly recommend this company and all ofthe guides I have gone with have been superb.
Really enjoyed the locations we visited and the shots I was able to take. Charles was an excellent guide and helpful with camera settings. I definitely want to go back.
Nat our guide was very knowledgeable and pleasant but unfortunately he walked very fast. My friend and I struggled to keep up and after an hour we totally lost track of him. We did not know where we were so had to take a taxi back to our hotel, missing the last hour of the tour.
Charles is very personable, friendly, and knowledgable about the local area! He helped make lay some important tips and adjustments I wasn't quite getting right to make the shots perfect!
This was an awesome experience from start to finish. Not only was Charles knowledgeable of the area, he was also really handy at helping with setups for different types of shoots and how to apply those settings for best effect. His geographic knowledge of the areas around Tokyo are excellent, lending multiple different places to capture great shots of Tokyo and its neon. If you have the chance I’d highly recommend this tour with your camera!
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This tour was a fantastic experience. Charles was knowledgeable, enthusiastic, and cheerful, and he has a clear passion for photography. He gave me some fantastic tips on using my phone camera and how to get the best shots, and he helped me get amazing photos that I've sent to my family and friends back home. If you want to see Tokyo through a different lens, quite literally, and explore the intricate twists and turns around the maze of Shinjuku and Shibuya, then this is the tour for you.
My guide Charles was awesome, super friendly and knowledgeable. He was able to help all of us on the tour with different cameras get some incredible results. He knew some awesome spots and had some really great insight into our compositions. I was so pleased with this one I booked another tour with them as soon as I got back to the hotel!
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Great evening of photography. Learned a lot about creative night time photography. Saw parts of Tokyo we would not have visited on our own. Guide was great. Would fully recommend.
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