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...
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
Japan's First Public Art Museum, Where Each Show Has Its Own Ticket
Opened in 1926 as Japan's first public art museum. There is no permanent collection display: the ...
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...
Hama-rikyu Gardens
A Seawater Pond and a Teahouse Below the Shiodome Towers
A former shogunal villa on Tokyo Bay whose main pond still fills and drains with the tide, the on...
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 ...
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...
Hanazono Shrine
Shinjuku's Guardian Shrine, Steps from Golden Gai
Shinjuku's guardian shrine since before 1603, squeezed between Yasukuni-dori and the bars of Gold...
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...
Niijima
6.5 km of White Sand and a Free Seaside Onsen Open All Night
A surf island about 160 km south of Tokyo, where Habushiura's 6.5 km of white sand faces the open...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Holy Resurrection Cathedral (Nikolai-do)
A Green Byzantine Dome Two Minutes from Ochanomizu Station
The main cathedral of the Orthodox Church in Japan, a Byzantine-style church with a 35-meter gree...