Things to Do in Kanto, Japan

National Museum of Western Art

Le Corbusier's UNESCO World Heritage Museum in Ueno

Designed by Le Corbusier and inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2016, the National Muse...

Fukuroda Falls

Fukuroda Falls is considered one of Japan's three great waterfalls, its 120 meters of cascading w...

Yokohama Cosmoworld

Waterfront Amusement Park and the Cosmo Clock 21 Ferris Wheel

A compact urban amusement park in Minato Mirai built around the Cosmo Clock 21, a giant clock-fac...

Showa Kinen Park

180 Hectares of Flower Fields on a Former Air Base in Tachikawa

A 180-hectare national park built on the site of the former US Tachikawa air base, with seasonal ...

Tama Zoological Park

Tokyo's Hillside Zoo Without Cages, Four Times the Size of Ueno

A zoo spread over more than 50 hectares of the Tama Hills, opened in 1958 as Japan's first zoo de...

Fukiware Falls

The Niagara of the Orient

A dramatic 30-meter wide waterfall where the river splits and pours into a deep gorge from both s...

Mount Haruna

Lake Haruna, a Three-Minute Ropeway and Initial D's Mount Akina

A cluster of volcanic peaks around Lake Haruna, west of Ikaho Onsen. A ropeway climbs the cone 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,...

Hakone Yumoto Onsen

Hakone's Gateway Onsen Town, Where the Romancecar Stops and Two Big Day Bathhouses Wait

Hakone Yumoto is the end of the line for the Odakyu Romancecar from Shinjuku, about 80 minutes ou...

Rainbow Bridge

Walking 1.7 km Across Tokyo Bay on the Rainbow Bridge Promenade

A free 1.7 km walkway on the lower deck of the 1993 suspension bridge between Shibaura and Odaiba...

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...

Futarasan Shrine

The Shrine Behind Nikko's Red Shinkyo Bridge, Quieter Than Tosho-gu Next Door

The shrine of Mount Nantai, in the cedars a few minutes west of Tosho-gu, and owner of the vermil...

Warner Bros. Studio Tour Tokyo

The Making of Harry Potter, an Indoor Studio Tour in Nerima

A large indoor Harry Potter studio tour on the former Toshimaen site, where visitors walk through...

Honda Collection Hall

Honda's Story in Bikes and Cars, Inside the Motegi Race Circuit

Honda's own museum, inside the Mobility Resort Motegi race circuit and park, with motorcycles, ca...

Rinno-ji

Nikko's Head Temple: Three Gilded Buddhas in Sanbutsudo and Iemitsu's Black-and-Gold Taiyuin

The Tendai temple that has run Nikko's mountain worship since the monk Shodo opened it in 766. Tw...