Architecture & design
Metabolist icons, Omotesando flagships and hidden brutalism.
Nakameguro & Daikanyama
2 placesDaikanyama T-Site
代官山 蔦屋書店Daikanyama T-Site is a bookshop built in 2011 as three white pavilions wrapped in a lattice of interlocking T shapes, de…
Starbucks Reserve Roastery Tokyo
スターバックス リザーブ ロースタリー 東京The Tokyo Roastery, opened in 2019 beside the Meguro River, is the fifth of Starbucks' showcase roasteries and the one d…
Odaiba
3 placesUnicorn Gundam at DiverCity
実物大ユニコーンガンダム立像A 19.7-metre RX-0 Unicorn Gundam stands outside DiverCity Tokyo Plaza, a full-size replica of the mobile suit from the a…
Miraikan
日本科学未来館The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, a glass hall on the Odaiba waterfront whose centrepiece is a six…
Odaiba Seaside Park
お台場海浜公園An 800-metre crescent of sand on Tokyo Bay facing the Rainbow Bridge, with the skyscrapers of Shiodome and Tokyo Tower b…
Ginza
4 placesGinza Chuo-dori
銀座中央通りThe spine of Ginza runs for a kilometre between Kyobashi and Shinbashi, lined with flagship stores built by architects w…
Ginza Six
GINZA SIXThe largest shopping complex in Ginza opened in 2017 on the site of the old Matsuzakaya department store, with 240 shops…
Wako Clock Tower
銀座 和光The curved neo-Renaissance building on the Ginza 4-chome crossing is the district's emblem and one of the few prewar str…
Kabukiza Theatre
歌舞伎座Kabuki has been performed on this corner since 1889, and the current theatre, rebuilt in 2013 behind a baroque Japanese…
Tsukiji & Toyosu
3 placesHamarikyu Gardens
浜離宮恩賜庭園A shogun's duck-hunting estate turned public garden, where a tidal pond fills and empties with the bay and a 300-year-ol…
Toyosu Market
豊洲市場The world's largest fish market moved from Tsukiji to this purpose-built complex on reclaimed land in 2018, where 500 to…
Tsukiji Hongwanji Temple
築地本願寺A Buddhist temple that looks like nothing else in Japan: a 1934 stone hall by the architect Chuta Ito, who borrowed the…
Marunouchi
4 placesImperial Palace East Gardens
皇居東御苑The inner grounds of Edo Castle, the shogun's fortress that became the Imperial Palace, opened to the public in 1968 as…
KITTE Marunouchi
KITTE丸の内The former Tokyo Central Post Office of 1931 was hollowed out in 2013 and reborn as a mall, its white modernist shell wr…
Tokyo International Forum
東京国際フォーラムRafael Viñoly's 1996 convention centre is a glass hall shaped like a ship's hull, 60 metres high and 200 metres long, it…
Tokyo Station Marunouchi Building
東京駅丸の内駅舎The red-brick station of 1914, designed by Kingo Tatsuno, lost its domes to wartime bombing and got them back in 2012, w…
Akihabara
1 placesRoppongi
4 placesMori Art Museum
森美術館A contemporary art museum on the 53rd floor of Mori Tower, higher than any other gallery in the world, with large themat…
National Art Center, Tokyo
国立新美術館Kisho Kurokawa's last major building, opened in 2007, is a rippling glass curtain wall that encloses an atrium the size…
Roppongi Hills
六本木ヒルズThe 2003 development that defined Tokyo's vertical-city ambitions, with a 54-storey tower, a cinema, a TV studio, apartm…
Tokyo Tower
東京タワーTokyo's 333-metre answer to the Eiffel Tower went up in 1958, painted orange and white, and stayed the city's tallest st…
Yanaka
2 placesNezu Shrine
根津神社One of Tokyo's oldest shrines, with all its 1706 buildings surviving intact: a gate, a cloister, a worship hall in the l…
SCAI The Bathhouse
スカイザバスハウスA 200-year-old public bathhouse named Kashiwayu, turned in 1993 into one of Tokyo's most respected contemporary art gall…
Harajuku
1 placesAsakusa
2 placesSenso-ji Temple
浅草寺Tokyo's oldest temple traces its story to 628, when two fishermen pulled a golden statue of Kannon from the Sumida River…
Sumida Park
隅田公園A long ribbon of green on both banks of the Sumida River, planted with 600 cherry trees along the embankment that the ei…
Shibuya
2 placesShibuya Scramble Crossing
渋谷スクランブル交差点The world's busiest pedestrian crossing sits right outside Shibuya Station's Hachiko exit. When the lights turn red for…
Shibuya Sky
渋谷スカイShibuya Sky is the open-air roof of the 229-meter Scramble Square tower, opened in 2019 directly above the station. A gl…