Travel Destinations in Tokyo

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...

Yayoi Kusama Museum

Kusama's Own Five-Floor Museum, Timed Tickets Only

The museum Yayoi Kusama founded in 2017 in a quiet corner of Shinjuku, showing her work in two ex...

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Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building

Free Views From 202 Meters, With Mt. Fuji on Clear Winter Days

Two free observation decks on the 45th floor of Tokyo's city hall in Nishi-Shinjuku, 202 meters a...

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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...

Shrine

Hie Shrine

Escalators Up One Side, a Red Torii Tunnel Up the Other

A hilltop shrine in Nagatacho that guarded Edo Castle for the Tokugawa. Free to enter, open 6:00 ...

The National Art Center, Tokyo

A Wavy Glass Facade, 14,000 m² of Galleries and No Collection

A national art center in Roppongi with no collection of its own, only temporary exhibitions in 12...

Zoo

Ueno Zoo

Japan's First Zoo, Split Between a Hill and a Lotus Pond

Japan's oldest zoo, opened in 1882 inside Ueno Park, with about 3,000 animals of some 300 species...

Temple

Sengaku-ji

Where the 47 Ronin Lie Beside the Lord They Avenged

The Zen temple in Takanawa where the 47 ronin of the Chushingura story are buried beside their lo...

Temple

Tsukiji Hongan-ji

An Indian-Style Temple with a Pipe Organ and an 18-Dish Breakfast

A Jodo Shinshu temple whose 1934 main hall, designed by Ito Chuta, looks like ancient Indian Budd...

Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum

Thirty Rescued Tokyo Buildings in Koganei Park, Ghibli Links Included

An open-air museum in Koganei Park where 30 historic buildings, from Edo-period farmhouses to a 1...

Island Hikyo

Aogashima

A Village Inside a Double Caldera, Three Hours of Open Sea Past Hachijojima

The southernmost inhabited island of the Izu chain, a volcano with a second cone sitting inside i...

Aogashima, Tokyo, Japan

Park

Hibiya Park

Japan's First Western-Style Park, Between the Ministries and Ginza

Sixteen hectares of lawns, ponds and flowerbeds across the moat from the Imperial Palace, opened ...

Shrine

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...

Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan

Park

Inokashira Park

Kichijoji's Pond Park, Where the Kanda River Begins

A park built around a long spring-fed pond five minutes from Kichijoji Station, opened in 1917 as...

Musashino, Tokyo, Japan

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