Things to Do in Kanto, Japan

Mount Nantai

Through a Shrine Gate at 6:00, Then 1,200 m Straight Up

The 2,486-meter sacred mountain of Futarasan Shrine, climbed only from the shrine's Chugushi on L...

Nezu Shrine

Seven Edo-Era Buildings, 3,000 Azaleas and a Tunnel of Red Torii

A gongen-style shrine finished in 1706 whose seven main structures are all Important Cultural Pro...

Odawara Castle

Odawara’s reconstructed keep rises above moats, gates and a castle park close to the station. The...

Pola Museum of Art

Monet and Renoir in a Museum Sunk into a Hakone Beech Forest

A museum in the Sengokuhara woods, opened in 2002, built mostly underground to keep it 8 meters h...

Tokyo Big Sight

Tokyo Big Sight: Japan's Largest Convention Centre

The inverted pyramids on Tokyo Bay. Japan's biggest exhibition venue, and the home of Comiket.

Asakusa Hanayashiki

Japan's oldest amusement park, squeezed in behind Sensoji

A tiny park a few minutes' walk from Sensoji that began as a flower garden in 1853. Its 1953 roll...

Ikegami Honmon-ji

Where Nichiren Died, and 300,000 People Come on One October Night

Head temple of the Nichiren school on a hill in Ota Ward, built where Nichiren died in 1282. Free...

Kozu-shima

Mount Tenjo's Azaleas and Tokyo's First Dark Sky Island

An Izu island reached by jet ferry from Takeshiba in about 3 hours 45 minutes or by a 45-minute f...

Maxell Aqua Park Shinagawa

A Dolphin Show in a Round Arena, Two Minutes From Shinagawa Station

An indoor aquarium inside the Shinagawa Prince Hotel, about two minutes from Shinagawa Station, w...

Michi-no-Eki Tamatsukuri

Lake Kasumigaura views at the foot of the big bridge

A lakeside station at the eastern end of the Kasumigaura Ohashi bridge, next to the 60 m Rainbow ...

Michi-no-Eki Yamba Furusatokan

A footbath beside the new bridges of Yamba Dam

A stop on the Route 145 Yamba bypass at the foot of Fudo Ohashi, one of the bridges built for Yam...

Okukinu Onsen

Four Mountain Inns Past the Meotobuchi Gate, Reached on Foot or by Guest Shuttle

Four inns at the head of the Kinu River inside Nikko National Park: Kaniyu, Hatchonoyu, Nikkozawa...

Sagamiko MORI MORI

Forest rides, climbing walls and six million winter lights

A hilltop forest park above Lake Sagami, run by Fujikyu and renamed from Pleasure Forest in July ...

Soji-ji

A 164-Meter Corridor Wiped by Hand, Five Minutes from Tsurumi

One of the two head temples of Soto Zen, founded in 1321 on the Noto Peninsula and moved to Tsuru...

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

Japan's First Public Art Museum, Where Each Show Has Its Own Ticket

Opened in 1926 as Japan's first public art museum. There is no permanent collection display: the ...