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...

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...

Mount Oyama

Edo's Pilgrim Peak: A Cable Car to Afuri Shrine, Then 90 Minutes Up

A 1,252-meter peak in the Tanzawa range that drew some 200,000 pilgrims a year in the Edo period....

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...

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Postwar Japanese Art in a Glass Hall at the Edge of Kiba Park

Tokyo's public museum of contemporary art, opened in 1995 on the north edge of Kiba Park, with ab...

Nakano Broadway

Five Floors of Used Manga, Old Toys and Collectibles in Nakano

A shopping complex from 1966 whose basement to fourth floor hold some 200 shops, a large share of...

National Museum of Nature and Science

Dinosaurs, a Plesiosaur and a 1931 Hall in Ueno Park

Japan's national museum of natural history and science, in two buildings: the 1931 Japan Gallery,...

Nezu Museum

Korin's Irises Screen Each Spring and a Hillside Garden Behind Omotesando

A museum of Japanese and East Asian art built on railway magnate Nezu Kaichiro's estate, with a 2...

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...

Niijima

6.5 km of White Sand and a Free Seaside Onsen Open All Night

A surf island about 160 km south of Tokyo, where Habushiura's 6.5 km of white sand faces the open...

Nippara Limestone Cave

A Limestone Cave Inside Tokyo, Two and a Half Hours from Shinjuku

A lit limestone cave at the far end of the Nippara valley in Okutama, a Tokyo natural monument th...

Odawara Castle

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

Ofuna Kannon

A 25-Meter White Kannon Bust Watching Over Ofuna Station

A white concrete bust of Kannon about 25 meters tall on the hill above Ofuna Station, begun in 19...

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...

Okunitama Shrine

Musashi's Old Provincial Shrine and Its Lights-Out May Festival

The soja, or combined shrine, of old Musashi Province, five minutes from Fuchu Station, reached b...