# Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel - [Harajuku](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/harajuku): Tokyo, Neighborhood. Tokyo's epicenter of youth fashion, street culture, and creative expression centered around Takeshita Street. - [Roppongi](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/roppongi): Tokyo, Neighborhood. Roppongi became a nightlife district because of the American military. Occupation forces took over the barracks here after 1945, bars opened for them, and the area kept the reputation long after the soldiers thinned out. That history explains both why so much English is spoken here and why the district still has an edge to it. What changed it was art. Roppongi Hills opened in 2003 with the Mori Art Museum on the 53rd floor, which puts a serious contemporary gallery above an observation deck with a view over the whole of Tokyo. The National Art Center followed in 2007, a Kurokawa Kisho building with an undulating glass front and no permanent collection at all, only visiting exhibitions. The Suntory Museum of Art in Tokyo Midtown completes what the tourist office calls the Art Triangle. Between them the three cover more ground than any comparable cluster in the country. Louise Bourgeois's giant bronze spider stands outside Roppongi Hills and has become the neighbourhood's landmark. Azabudai Hills, ten minutes' walk south and opened in 2023, has Japan's tallest building and teamLab Borderless in its basement. The honest part. The bars along the main strip employ touts, and there is a long record of drink-spiking and inflated bills serious enough that several embassies have issued warnings about specific streets. Declining the man on the pavement and picking your own bar removes most of the risk, though it is not a guarantee. Do not follow anybody anywhere. Tokyo Tower is a fifteen-minute walk east and looks better from Roppongi's streets than from its own base. - [Tokyo Tower](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/tokyo-tower): Tokyo, Landmark. 333-meter communications tower modeled on the Eiffel Tower, with two observation decks for views over Tokyo. - [Golden Gai](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/golden-gai): Tokyo, Neighborhood. A labyrinth of tiny bars in six narrow alleys, preserving old Tokyo's intimate drinking culture in Shinjuku. - [Ghibli Museum](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/ghibli-museum): Tokyo, Museum. Whimsical museum dedicated to Studio Ghibli's animated films, featuring exclusive short films and a rooftop Robot Soldier. - [Nakano Broadway](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/nakano-broadway): Tokyo, Shopping. A shopping complex from 1966 whose basement to fourth floor hold some 200 shops, a large share of them selling used manga, figures, vintage toys, anime goods and watches. Mandarake alone runs more than 30 separate sections here. About 5 minutes on foot from Nakano Station's North Exit. - [Tokyo Skytree](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/tokyo-skytree): Tokyo, Landmark. The world's tallest tower soars 634 meters above eastern Tokyo, with two observation decks offering views that stretch to Mount Fuji on clear days. - [Shimokitazawa](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/shimokitazawa): Tokyo, Neighborhood. Tokyo's bohemian hub of vintage shops, live music venues, and independent theaters. - [Yoyogi Park](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/yoyogi-park): Tokyo, Park. A large, mostly wooded park next to Meiji Shrine, built on the land that housed the athletes' village for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. Entry is free at any hour, the cherry trees fill the lawns with picnics in spring, and festivals set up across the road in the B area on many weekends. - [Ichiran Shinjuku](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/ichiran-shinjuku): Tokyo, Restaurant. Ichiran's whole design exists so that you never have to speak to anyone. Buy a ticket from the machine, get shown to a booth with wooden dividers on both sides, fill in a paper form, and hand it under a bamboo blind that a pair of hands then lowers. The bowl arrives through the gap. When you want more noodles you press a button. The chain is from Fukuoka and the ramen is Hakata style: pork bone broth, thin straight noodles, a scoop of the house red chilli paste in the middle. The form lets you set seven things, including how rich the broth is, how much garlic, whether you want spring onion, and how firm the noodles are. Order them futame or katame; the default is softer than most people from Fukuoka would accept. Kaedama, a second helping of noodles, comes on the same button and takes about a minute. Ramen people will tell you there are better bowls within five minutes' walk, and they are right. What Ichiran sells is consistency and a complete absence of social pressure, which is why the booths were designed in the first place, and it is the easiest possible introduction for someone eating ramen alone in Japan for the first time. The form is available in English. Around 1,000 yen and up. Several branches around Shinjuku, some open 24 hours, and the queue at 2am on a Saturday can still be twenty people. Cash and cards both work at most machines. - [Imperial Palace](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/imperial-palace): Tokyo, Historic site. The primary residence of the Emperor of Japan, set within vast gardens and moats in the heart of Tokyo. - [Yanaka District](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/yanaka-district): Tokyo, Neighborhood. A charming old-Tokyo neighborhood of temples, cats, and traditional shopping streets untouched by war. - [teamLab Borderless](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/teamlab-borderless): Tokyo, Museum. A groundbreaking digital art museum by teamLab where immersive artworks flow between rooms, respond to visitors, and create an ever-changing world without boundaries. - [Ogasawara Islands](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/ogasawara-islands): Tokyo, Attraction. Remote UNESCO World Heritage subtropical islands roughly 1,000 kilometers south of Tokyo, teeming with endemic species, pristine coral reefs for snorkeling, and seasonal whale watching. - [Mount Takao](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/mount-takao): Tokyo, Attraction. A hugely popular 599-meter mountain just 50 minutes from Shinjuku, drawing over three million hikers annually with multiple trails and a cable car. Page 2 of 7. 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