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...
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...
Mikurajima
Mikurajima: The Izu Island Where the Ferry Often Cannot Dock and You Need a Booked Bed to Land
A round, cliff-walled island about 200 km south of Tokyo with one small village, old-growth fores...
Mount Kumotori
Tokyo's Highest Point at 2,017 m, Best Done with a Night in a Hut
At 2,017 m on the border with Saitama and Yamanashi, Kumotori is the highest point in Tokyo and o...
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...
Suitengu
Nihonbashi's Safe-Childbirth Shrine, Busiest Every Twelfth Day
Tokyo's best-known shrine for safe childbirth, a minute from Suitengumae Station, rebuilt in 2016...
Asakusa Hanayashiki
Japan's oldest amusement park, squeezed in behind Sensoji
A tiny park a few minutes' walk from Sensoji that began as a flower garden in 1853. Its 1953 roll...
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...
Hachijo-jima
Climb 1,280 Steps up Hachijo-Fuji, 55 Minutes by Plane from Haneda
Two volcanoes joined by a strip of flat land, about 55 minutes by ANA from Haneda. Climb 1,280 st...
Kiyosumi Gardens
Stepping Stones Across a Pond Lined With Rocks Shipped by Mitsubishi
A Meiji-era stroll garden built by the Iwasaki family of Mitsubishi around a large pond with thre...
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...
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...
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...
Jindai-ji
Soba Lunch and an Asuka-Era Bronze Buddha on Tokyo's Western Edge
A temple founded in 733 in wooded Chofu, ringed by soba shops and home to the oldest National Tre...
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