Nature & parks
Gardens, riverside walks and the city's surprising green pockets.
Tsukiji & Toyosu
1 placesMarunouchi
1 placesKichijoji
1 placesNakameguro & Daikanyama
1 placesHarajuku
2 placesMeiji Jingu
明治神宮Meiji Jingu is a shrine dedicated to the emperor who opened Japan to the world and his empress, completed in 1920 and su…
Yoyogi Park
代々木公園Yoyogi Park is 54 hectares of lawns, forest and fountains next to Meiji Jingu, on land that was a parade ground, then Am…
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…
Yanaka Cemetery
谷中霊園Ten hectares of graves, cherry trees and cats on a ridge between Nippori Station and the temples of Yanaka, laid out in…
Odaiba
1 placesShinjuku
2 placesShinjuku Gyoen
新宿御苑A former imperial garden opened to the public in 1949, Shinjuku Gyoen is 58 hectares of lawn, ponds and 20,000 trees thr…
Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building
東京都庁Kenzo Tange's 243-meter twin-towered city hall, finished in 1991, was Tokyo's tallest building for a decade and still lo…
Ueno
3 placesShinobazu Pond
不忍池A broad lotus pond at the foot of Ueno's hill, divided by causeways into a boating lake, a cormorant sanctuary and a bed…
Ueno Park
上野恩賜公園Japan's first public park, opened in 1873 on the grounds of a destroyed temple, is a plateau of museums, shrines and che…
Ueno Zoo
上野動物園Japan's oldest zoo opened in 1882 inside Ueno Park and became a national obsession in 1972 when China sent the first gia…