Things to Do in Kanto, Japan

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 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...

Ushiku Daibutsu

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

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...

Michi-no-Eki Hakone Toge

A mountain-pass stop above Lake Ashi

Kanagawa's first michi-no-eki, opened in 1995 at Hakone Pass on Route 1, close to the Shizuoka bo...

Mount Tanigawa

Ropeway to Tenjindaira, Then Three Hours Up the Tenjin Ridge

A 1,977-meter peak on the Gunma and Niigata border where more than 800 climbers have died since 1...

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 ...

Seibuen Yuenchi

A 1960s Showa shopping street and a Godzilla ride in Tokorozawa

An old Seibu Railway amusement park that reopened in May 2021 as a full Showa-era set piece: a re...

Kasama Inari Shrine

An Inari shrine at the heart of Kasama, with shrine buildings and a shopping approach known for i...

Kodokan Mito Domain School

A former Mito domain school with surviving historic buildings and plum trees near Mito Station.

Michi-no-Eki Hachioji Takiyama

Tokyo's own roadside station, next to Hachioji IC

Opened in 2007 as the first michi-no-eki in Tokyo, about 500 m north of Hachioji IC on the Chuo E...

Tobu Zoo

White tigers and a wooden coaster in one Saitama park

A zoo and amusement park rolled into one, about an hour from Tokyo on the Tobu line: around 120 a...

Doai Station

Doai Station: 462 Steps Up from a Platform Inside a Mountain Tunnel

An unstaffed JR Joetsu Line station whose down-line platform sits inside the Shin-Shimizu Tunnel,...

Fukagawa Edo Museum

A Full-Size 1840s Fukagawa Street You Can Walk Into, for 400 Yen

A city museum that rebuilds a corner of Fukagawa Saga-cho as it looked in the Tenpo era (1830s to...