Travel Destinations in Tokyo

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...

Island

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...

Kozushima, Tokyo, Japan

Garden

Kyu-Furukawa Gardens

A Conder Stone Mansion Above a Rose Garden and a Kyoto Gardener's Pond

A Western-style stone mansion finished in 1917 to a design by Josiah Conder, with a sloping rose ...

MOMAT (National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo)

Japanese Art Since Meiji, With a View Over the Palace Moat

Japan's first national art museum, opened in 1952 and in Kitanomaru Park since 1969. The MOMAT Co...

Aquarium

Maxell Aqua Park Shinagawa

A Dolphin Show in a Round Arena, Two Minutes From Shinagawa Station

An indoor aquarium inside the Shinagawa Prince Hotel, about two minutes from Shinagawa Station, w...

Meguro Parasitological Museum

An 8.8-Meter Tapeworm and 300 Jars of Parasites, Free in Meguro

A small private museum devoted to parasites, founded in 1953 by the doctor Satoru Kamegai. About ...

Michi-no-eki

Michi-no-Eki Hachioji Takiyama

Tokyo's own roadside station, next to Hachioji IC

Opened in 2007 as the first michi-no-eki in Tokyo, about 500 m north of Hachioji IC on the Chuo E...

Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan

Island Hikyo

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...

Mikurajima, Tokyo, Japan

Miraikan

A 6-Meter Glowing Globe and Science in Progress in Odaiba

Japan's national museum of current science, opened in Odaiba in 2001 and known for Geo-Cosmos, a ...

Island

Miyake-jima

Walk Past a School Buried by Lava on a Still-Active Volcano Island

A round volcanic island about 180 km off Honshu whose 2000 eruption and the gas that followed emp...

Miyake, Tokyo, Japan

Mori Art Museum and Tokyo City View

Contemporary Art on the 53rd Floor, Open Until 22:00 Most Nights

A contemporary art museum on the 53rd floor of Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, with exhibitions that c...

Mountain

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...

Okutama, Tokyo, Japan

Mountain

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...

Ome, Tokyo, Japan

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Postwar Japanese Art in a Glass Hall at the Edge of Kiba Park

Tokyo's public museum of contemporary art, opened in 1995 on the north edge of Kiba Park, with ab...

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