Things to Do in Kanto, Japan

Mount Mitake

A Cable Car, 330 Steps and a Wolf Shrine Above Ome

A 929 m mountain in Ome topped by Musashi Mitake Shrine, reached by a 6-minute cable car and abou...

Odawara Castle

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

Ryujin Suspension Bridge

A Footbridge with a 375-Meter Span, 100 Meters Above a Dam Lake, with Bungee Jumps off the Middle

A pedestrian suspension bridge with a 375-meter main span, hung 100 meters above the lake behind ...

Ushiku Daibutsu

A monumental bronze Amida Buddha with interior worship spaces and observation windows, set in gro...

Yokohama Hakkeijima Sea Paradise

Four aquariums and a coaster that runs out over the sea

A man-made island in southern Yokohama with four aquariums and a seaside ride area. Walking onto ...

Zojo-ji

Six Shoguns' Graves Directly Beneath Tokyo Tower

The Tokugawa family temple in Shiba, with Tokyo Tower rising right behind the main hall. The grou...

Hama-rikyu Gardens

A Seawater Pond and a Teahouse Below the Shiodome Towers

A former shogunal villa on Tokyo Bay whose main pond still fills and drains with the tide, the on...

Hoshi Onsen Chojukan

A One-Inn Hot Spring Where the Water Rises Through the Bath Floor, Four Buses a Day from Sarugakyo

Hoshi Onsen is a single wooden inn, Chojukan, at the foot of the Mikuni Pass. Its big bath, Hoshi...

Michi-no-Eki Kasama

Kasama chestnuts and pottery town gateway

Opened in 2021 on Route 355, about 2 km from Tomobe IC, as the gateway to Kasama. Chestnuts are t...

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...

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...

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...

Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum

Prince Asaka's 1933 Art Deco Mansion and Its Lawns, Seven Minutes from Meguro

The 1933 home of Prince Asaka, with main rooms by the French Art Deco designers Henri Rapin and R...

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...