Travel Destinations in Tokyo

Tokyo Dome City

No Gate Fee, a Coaster Through a Building and an All-Night Spa

The leisure district around Tokyo Dome, with about 20 pay-per-ride attractions including the Thun...

Landmark

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...

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...

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...

Historic Site

Hachioji Castle Ruins

The Unfinished Hojo Mountain Castle Whose 1590 Fall Doomed Odawara

The ruins of Hojo Ujiteru's mountain castle, stormed by the armies of Maeda Toshiie and Uesugi Ka...

Hachioji, 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

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...

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

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...

Neighborhood

Tsukishima

Monja on Reclaimed Land: About 50 Griddle Shops Off One Street

A Meiji-era island of reclaimed land at the mouth of the Sumida River whose main shopping street,...

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

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 ...

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...

Shrine

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...

Shrine