# Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel

- [Meiji Shrine](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/meiji-shrine): Tokyo, Shrine. Shrine dedicated to Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken, set within a 70-hectare evergreen forest in central Tokyo.
- [Kabukicho](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kabukicho): Tokyo, Neighborhood. The name is a leftover from a plan that never happened. After the 1945 firebombing flattened this corner of Shinjuku, the rebuilding scheme included a kabuki theatre as the centrepiece. The theatre was never built. The name stuck to the entertainment district that filled the space instead. What grew there is roughly 35 hectares of bars, hostess clubs, karaoke, cinemas, love hotels and pachinko, packed into a grid dense enough that the neon reflects off the wet street in every direction. The Godzilla head mounted on the eighth floor of the Toho building has become the standard meeting point, and it roars on the hour. Kabukicho Tower opened in 2023 at the western edge, 225 metres of hotel, live music venue, arcade and a themed food hall that draws a younger and calmer crowd than the streets below. Robot Restaurant, which was in every guidebook for a decade, closed for good and did not come back after the pandemic. Do not go looking for it. A practical note, because it matters here more than anywhere else in Tokyo. Touts on the street offering cheap drinks or a free look at a club are the setup for a bill of tens of thousands of yen, and the police have been running campaigns about it for years. Nobody legitimate needs to stop you on the pavement. Ignore them, keep walking, and the district is as safe as the rest of Tokyo, which is very. There is a koban right at the main entrance. The good eating is in the side lanes rather than the main drag. Golden Gai, a five-minute walk east, is six alleys of tiny bars that seat six people each, many with a cover charge of 500 to 1,500 yen posted on the door. Omoide Yokocho on the far side of the station does grilled offal and beer under low ceilings. Ramen shops here run until dawn, which is the actual reason a lot of people are still out at four in the morning.
- [Shibuya Crossing](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/shibuya-crossing): Tokyo, Landmark. Shibuya's scramble crossing, where traffic stops every couple of minutes and people cross from all four corners at once, diagonals included. A local shopping-street association puts it at up to 3,000 people on one green light at peak.
- [Tokyo National Museum](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/tokyo-national-museum): Tokyo, Museum. Japan's oldest and largest national museum with over 110,000 objects including 89 National Treasures.
- [Fuunji](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/fuunji): Tokyo, Restaurant. A narrow counter with about ten stools, a few minutes from Shinjuku's south exit, and a queue outside it for most of the hours it is open. Fuunji opened in 2007 and has been on every Tokyo tsukemen list since. Tsukemen means the noodles and the broth arrive separately. Here the noodles are thick, cold and firm, and the dipping broth is a gyokai tonkotsu: pork and chicken bones cooked down and then loaded with dried sardine and bonito powder until it is closer to a paste than a soup. It is intensely savoury and it clings to the noodles rather than running off them. The standard order is the tokusei tsukemen, which adds extra chashu and a marinated egg. Finish the noodles, then ask for soup-wari. Staff top the remaining broth with light stock so you can drink it, and skipping this step wastes the best part of the meal. Practical things. Buy a ticket at the machine before joining the queue, which is the local rule and not obvious to first-timers. Expect thirty to sixty minutes at peak, less if you arrive right at opening or in the mid-afternoon before the evening service. There is a midday break, and the shop closes on Sundays. Portions are large and the default noodle amount defeats a lot of people. Credit cards are accepted. If the queue is beyond your patience, Shinjuku has several hundred other ramen shops. Very few of them do this particular bowl as well.
- [Ueno Park](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/ueno-park): Tokyo, Park. A sprawling public park home to Tokyo's finest museums, a zoo, historic temples, and over 1,000 cherry trees that make it one of the city's top hanami spots.
- [Ameyoko](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/ameyoko): Tokyo, Market. A bustling open-air market street near Ueno Station with bargain goods, street food, and lively energy.
- [Akihabara](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/akihabara): Tokyo, Neighborhood. Tokyo's legendary electronics and otaku district, packed with multi-story anime shops, retro game arcades, maid cafes, and electronics stores from cutting-edge to vintage.
- [Senso-ji](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/senso-ji): Tokyo, Temple. Tokyo's oldest and most visited temple, where a 700-kilogram red lantern marks the entrance to centuries of Buddhist tradition in the heart of Asakusa.
- [Tokyo Station](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/tokyo-station): Tokyo, Landmark. Red brick station from 1914, restored in 2012. Ramen Street in the basement, Character Street for shopping. The Marunouchi side at night is the money shot.
- [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.
- [Tsukiji Outer Market](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/tsukiji-outer-market): Tokyo, Market. The outer market stayed when the wholesale moved to Toyosu in 2018. Tiny sushi counters, grilled seafood skewers, tamagoyaki made in front of you. Most stalls close by 2pm, so arrive before 10am.
- [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.
- [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.
- [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.

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Last updated: 2026-10-20