Get a Volunteer Tour Guide in Tokyo. One of the best things we ever did was to get a volunteer tour guide in Tokyo. It was during our first trip to the city, and we have now been to Tokyo numerous times, that we got ourselves a volunteer tour guide, and what a lovely man he was. It was an amazing way to learn that Tokyo does not have to be an expensive place to visit if you know what the locals know. It was also our way of discovering some of the very diverse and surprising districts in Tokyo