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- Photo: Madame Tatillonne / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (resized)Mitaka, TokyoGhibli Museum, MitakaA maze-like museum that feels like a film in itself, with galleries on animation and a small cinema showing original short films; there is no set route, and entry is by advance timed reservation only.Official check: 26 Sept 2026
- Photo: Guilhem Vellut / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 (resized)Chuo, TokyoHama-rikyu GardensAn Edo-period garden loved by the shoguns, with the only surviving seawater pond among Tokyo's Edo gardens, fed from Tokyo Bay through sluice gates, and a teahouse on an island where you can drink matcha; skyscrapers rise behind it.Official check: 26 Sept 2026
Photo: Wei-Te Wong / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped and resized)Musashino, TokyoInokashira ParkA green park in Kichijoji, loved by local people, with recreation facilities, a shrine and a pond. You can rent rowing boats on Inokashira Pond in the centre, and in spring the pond is ringed with cherry blossoms. In its woods, which keep the feel of old Musashino, is the Inokashira Park Zoo (main zoo and aquatic life garden), and the Ghibli Museum, Mitaka is also in the park (advance booking required).Official check: 28 Sept 2026
Photo: Fg2 / Wikimedia Commons, Public domain (cropped)Chiyoda, TokyoKanda Myojin ShrineA shrine founded in 730 near today's Otemachi and moved here in the Edo period, the guardian of 108 districts including Kanda, Nihonbashi and Akihabara; it hosts the Kanda Matsuri, one of Japan's three great festivals, in May of odd-numbered years.Official check: 26 Sept 2026- Photo: KimonBerlin / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 (resized)Bunkyo, TokyoKoishikawa Korakuen GardensOne of Tokyo's notable historic Japanese gardens, a "stroll-style" garden centred on a pond. Tokugawa Yorifusa, founder of the Mito Tokugawa family, began it, and his son Mitsukuni completed it in 1669 with the help of the Ming scholar Zhu Shunshui. Famous scenes of Japan and China, such as Shorozan (Mt. Lu), Daisensui (Lake Biwa) and the Kiso Road, are recreated, so the view changes as you walk. There are cherry blossoms in spring, irises and lotus in summer, autumn leaves and plum in early spring. It is next to Tokyo Dome and Korakuen Hall.Official check: 28 Sept 2026
Photo: Guilhem Vellut / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 (resized)Okutama, TokyoLake OkutamaA lake formed by the Ogochi Dam on the Tama River, in the national park closest to central Tokyo and reachable on a day trip, with cherry blossoms in spring, fresh green in summer and autumn leaves.Official check: 26 Sept 2026
Photo: Photo ACShinjuku, TokyoMeiji Jingu GaienEast of Meiji Jingu and a few minutes on foot from Gaienmae Station, the Outer Gardens have sports facilities and the Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery. From spring to autumn you can watch baseball at Meiji Jingu Stadium, home of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, where fans cheer with umbrellas. There is a batting centre where you can face popular professional players on virtual screens, an indoor ice rink open all year, and tennis courts for rent. The Picture Gallery shows murals about Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken.Official check: 28 Sept 2026
Photo: Photo ACShibuya, TokyoMeiji Jingu ShrineA shrine to Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken set in a forest of about 100,000 donated trees between Shinjuku and Shibuya, 1 minute from Harajuku Station.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
Photo: Kentaro Ohno / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 (resized)Oshima, TokyoMt. Mihara, Izu OshimaThe active volcano at the centre of Izu Oshima, which last erupted in 1986; walk among black lava flows, peer into the crater, and see the Ura-sabaku desert that looks like another planet.Official check: 26 Sept 2026
Photo: Photo ACHachioji, TokyoMt. TakaoThe closest wild nature to central Tokyo, 50 minutes by train from Shinjuku, with many trails to the 599 m summit and, on clear days, a view of Mt. Fuji.Official check: 25 Sept 2026- Photo: Kestrel / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped and resized)Taito, TokyoNational Museum of Nature and ScienceOne of Japan's largest science museums, in Ueno Park, with over 25,000 exhibits from space and dinosaurs to Japan's ecosystems and the history of Japanese science, plus the 360-degree dome theatre "Theater 36○".Official check: 26 Sept 2026
Photo: Photo ACBunkyo, TokyoNezu ShrineNezu Shrine, whose buildings are Important Cultural Properties, has rich greenery, a pond with carp and rows of red torii gates. It is said to have been founded about 1,900 years ago by Yamato Takeru, and moved to its present site in 1706 on the orders of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi. Its architecture follows the style of Nikko Toshogu, where Tokugawa Ieyasu rests. You can walk through the torii leading to Otome Inari Shrine in the grounds, and in spring more than 100 kinds of azaleas bloom.Official check: 28 Sept 2026
Photo: 663highland / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.5 (resized)Minato, TokyoOdaiba Marine ParkA waterfront park across the Rainbow Bridge with a sandy beach, a 12.5 m Statue of Liberty and night views of the illuminated bridge.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
Photo: Guilhem Vellut / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 (resized)Bunkyo, TokyoRikugien GardenA strolling garden with hills and a large pond, built over seven years from 1695 by Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, a close aide of the shogun Tsunayoshi; a Special Place of Scenic Beauty, lit up at night in spring and autumn.Official check: 26 Sept 2026
Photo: Photo ACMinato, TokyoRoppongi HillsA complex of luxury shops and restaurants with the Tokyo City View observation deck on the 52nd floor, where you can see Mt. Fuji on clear days, and the Mori Art Museum on the 53rd.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
Photo: Photo ACTaito, TokyoSenso-ji TempleTokyo's oldest Buddhist temple, founded in 628, reached through the Kaminarimon gate and the Nakamise shopping street with about 90 shops.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
Photo: Photo ACKatsushika, TokyoShibamata Taishakuten (Daikyoji Temple)The heart of Shibamata, a temple founded in 1629; its main hall, completed in 1929, survived the Second World War, and its inner hall is covered with carvings of the Buddha's life made between 1915 and 1929, next to the Suikeien garden.Official check: 26 Sept 2026
Photo: Photo ACShinjuku, TokyoShinjuku Gyoen National GardenA former feudal estate opened to the public as a national garden in 1949, with Japanese, formal and landscape gardens and about 900 cherry trees.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
Photo: mrhayata / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 (resized)Tachikawa, TokyoShowa Kinen ParkA national government park of 180 hectares on the edge of Tachikawa, with children's play areas, flower fields, cycling paths and boats, plus outdoor fitness sessions and nature photography classes. It opened in 1983 to mark 50 years of the reign of Emperor Showa; the land was originally a military base in the imperial era and then a US military base during the occupation after the Second World War.Official check: 28 Sept 2026- Photo: Photo ACSumida, TokyoSumida AquariumAn aquarium in Tokyo Skytree Town themed on the Ogasawara Islands, with one of Japan's largest open tanks for penguins and fur seals and a shallow dish-shaped tank of about 500 moon jellyfish.Official check: 26 Sept 2026
Photo: Photo ACTaito, TokyoTokyo National MuseumJapan's oldest museum, holding over 120,000 works including 89 National Treasures, with about 3,000 on display across six buildings in Ueno Park.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
Photo: Biliana Nikolova-Lefterova / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped and resized)Sumida, TokyoTokyo SkytreeThe world's tallest free-standing broadcast tower at 634 m, with observation decks at 350 m and 450 m reached by lift in about 50 seconds.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
Photo: Akonnchiroll / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (resized)Minato, TokyoTokyo TowerTokyo's original landmark, a 333 m tower opened in 1958, with a Main Deck at 150 m reachable by lift or about 600 outdoor steps.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
Photo: Photo ACChuo, TokyoTsukiji Hongwanji TempleA Buddhist temple rebuilt in the 1930s in the style of ancient Indian and Asian architecture, an Important Cultural Property with stained glass and a pipe organ inside.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
Photo: pelican / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 (resized)Taito, TokyoUeno ZooJapan's first zoo, opened in 1882 in Ueno Park, with about 2,500 animals of 300 species, including gorillas, tigers and the famously still shoebill.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
Photo: Photo ACTaito, TokyoYanaka Ginza Shopping StreetA retro shopping street of small family shops selling meat, fish, vegetables, home-made side dishes, tea and Japanese sweets, about 5 minutes on foot from Nippori Station.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
Photo: Syced / Wikimedia Commons, CC0 1.0 (resized)Shibuya, TokyoYoyogi ParkYoyogi Park, 3 minutes on foot from JR Harajuku Station, is fifth in size among the Tokyo metropolitan parks, divided into a forest park and an area with an athletics field and an outdoor stage. It was once the army's Yoyogi parade ground, became US military housing after the war, served as the athletes' village for the Tokyo Olympics, and then became a park. Together with the trees of neighbouring Meiji Jingu it forms a dense green forest. On weekends many families and couples come for picnics, and you can ride the cycling course on a rental bike.Official check: 28 Sept 2026
Photo: Daderot / Wikimedia Commons, CC0 1.0 (resized)Bunkyo, TokyoYushima Tenmangu ShrineOne of Tokyo's best-known shrines to Sugawara no Michizane, god of learning, near Ueno; thousands of wooden prayer plaques hang here in exam season, and hundreds of plum trees bloom from February to early March.Official check: 26 Sept 2026
Photo: Photo ACMinato, TokyoZojoji TempleZojoji, a quiet landmark right by Shiba Park and Tokyo Tower, holds the tombs of six Tokugawa shoguns. Its Sangedatsumon gate, in traditional Buddhist style, is the only structure that survived the Second World War. It was a subject for artists, and Utagawa Hiroshige depicted it in "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo". The "Zojoji Treasure Gallery", opened in 2015, shows works by the painter Kano Kazunobu and a model of the Taitokuin mausoleum where a Tokugawa shogun is buried; next to it is a small garden of Jizo statues for children's health and growth.Official check: 28 Sept 2026- No photo yetChiyoda, TokyoAkihabara Electric TownOnce 1,000 electrical shops packed into 1 km square, now "Akiba", a hub of pop culture full of PC, anime and manga shops; the main street goes car-free on Sunday afternoons.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
- No photo yetTaito, TokyoAmeyoko Shopping StreetA lively street of about 500 shops running some 500 m from Ueno to Okachimachi, selling international food, fresh seafood, sweets, fashion and more to the calls of shopkeepers.Official check: 26 Sept 2026
- No photo yetTaito, TokyoAsakusa HanayashikiJapan's oldest amusement park, born as a peony and chrysanthemum garden at the end of the Edo period, with 19 attractions including a vintage roller coaster and a haunted house.Official check: 26 Sept 2026
- No photo yetChiyoda, TokyoEast Gardens of the Imperial PalacePart of the honmaru, ninomaru and sannomaru of the former Edo Castle, laid out as gardens attached to the Imperial Palace when the palace was rebuilt, and open to the public since 1968. Historic structures such as the Hyakunin-bansho guardhouse, the Fujimi-yagura turret and the base of the castle keep sit alongside landscaped gardens, including the Ninomaru Garden. The grounds also hold the Museum of the Imperial Collections (Sannomaru Shozokan).Official check: 20 Oct 2026
- No photo yetChofu, TokyoJindai-ji TempleA temple in Chofu, western Tokyo, that holds a bronze seated Shaka Nyorai (about 84 cm), a masterpiece of the late Asuka (Hakuho) period. Long forgotten under an altar after the temple's halls burned in 1865, it was rediscovered in 1909 and is now a National Treasure, the oldest in eastern Japan and the only Buddhist statue designated a National Treasure among Tokyo's temples. It can be seen in the Shaka-do hall.Official check: 20 Oct 2026
- No photo yetMinato, TokyoNezu MuseumA museum founded to preserve and show the collection of Japanese and East Asian antiques gathered by the businessman Nezu Kaichiro (1860-1940), opened in 1941 on the site of the Nezu family residence. Largely destroyed in 1945 air raids, it reopened its exhibitions in a shack in the autumn of 1946; today's main building was designed by Kengo Kuma. The collection numbers 7,630 items (as of March 2025), including 7 National Treasures and 93 Important Cultural Properties, and a garden with tea houses and stone lanterns, often called an oasis in the city, now has easy-to-walk stone paths.Official check: 20 Oct 2026
- No photo yetShibuya, TokyoShibuya Scramble CrossingThe famous crossing outside Shibuya Station where more than 1,000 people cross at once, an iconic image of Tokyo.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
- No photo yetBunkyo, TokyoSpa LaQua (Tokyo Dome Natural Hot Spring)A spa next to Tokyo Dome drawing natural hot-spring water from 1,700 m underground, with indoor and open-air baths, saunas and bedrock-bath rooms; you pay with a wristband and wear loaned loungewear.Official check: 26 Sept 2026
- No photo yetSumida, TokyoSumida Hokusai MuseumA museum opened in 2016 in Sumida, where Katsushika Hokusai was born and lived, showing works by him and his pupils; a room of life-size replicas introduces his life in several languages, and the building is by Kazuyo Sejima.Official check: 26 Sept 2026
- No photo yetMinato, TokyoThe National Art Center, TokyoOpened in 2007 as the fifth facility of the Independent Administrative Institution National Museum of Art, with the mission of creating a new culture through mutual understanding via art. Instead of holding a permanent collection, it works as an art center where people can experience and learn about many kinds of artistic expression, hosting a changing program of exhibitions. It connects directly to Nogizaka Station.Official check: 20 Oct 2026
- No photo yetChiyoda, TokyoThe National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo / MOMATJapan's first national art museum, in central Tokyo and surrounded by greenery: the Imperial Palace, Kitanomaru Park and Chidorigafuchi. It collects mainly Japanese modern and contemporary art from the late 19th century to the present. Its collection exhibition, "MOMAT Collection", shows about 200 of more than 14,000 works, including Nihonga, Western-style painting, prints, sculpture, photography and film, changing works each session to trace the flow of Japanese art.Official check: 20 Oct 2026
- No photo yetTaito, TokyoThe National Museum of Western ArtIts main building was designed by the French architect Le Corbusier as a symbol of restored relations between Japan and France after the war, and completed in March 1959. In 2016 the main building and its front garden were registered as part of the World Heritage Site "The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier", 17 sites in 7 countries on three continents. The front garden was restored toward Le Corbusier's original design during renovation works from 2020 to 2022, with Rodin's sculptures returned to their original positions.Official check: 20 Oct 2026
- No photo yetMinato, TokyoTokyo Metropolitan Teien Art MuseumThe museum is housed in the former residence of Prince and Princess Asaka. During a long stay in France from 1922 to 1925, at the height of Art Deco, they were captivated by the style and asked the French decorative artist Henri Rapin to design the main rooms of their new home. Built by architects of the Imperial Household Ministry with traditional Japanese craftsmanship, the residence was designated an Important Cultural Property in 2015 as one of the high points of the ministry's residential architecture. It is surrounded by a Japanese garden.Official check: 20 Oct 2026
- No photo yetEdogawa, TokyoTokyo Sea Life ParkAn aquarium in Kasai Rinkai Park, planned to mark the centenary of Ueno Zoo and opened in 1989 as "a place where people and the sea meet". Behind its eye-catching glass-dome entrance you can meet more than 500 species from the world's oceans and nearby waters. Its 2,200 m³ tank was the first in the world to show a school of Pacific bluefin tuna, which in 1999 also spawned in the tank for the first time anywhere, and it has one of the largest penguin exhibits in Japan with more than 100 birds.Official check: 20 Oct 2026
- No photo yetChuo, TokyoTsukiji Outer MarketTokyo's great food market within walking distance of Ginza, about 460 shops selling fresh sushi, seafood, seasonings and kitchen tools; many shops take cash only.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
- No photo yetChuo, TokyoTsukishima Monja StreetThe home of monjayaki, Tsukishima's soul food, with more than 80 specialist restaurants along the street where you cook it yourself on a hotplate at the table; many also serve okonomiyaki.Official check: 26 Sept 2026
- No photo yetTaito, TokyoUeno Toshogu ShrineA Toshogu shrine in Ueno Park, founded in 1627, enshrining Tokugawa Ieyasu as the deity Tosho Daigongen. Its lavish buildings, including the golden hall (Konjikiden), survived wars and earthquakes and are designated Important Cultural Properties as rare early-Edo architecture. Paying a separate fee lets you see the halls up close from inside the openwork fence (the interiors are not open).Official check: 20 Oct 2026