Nakano
1 placesAsakusa
5 placesAsakusa Hanayashiki
浅草花やしきJapan's oldest amusement park opened in 1853 as a flower garden and still squeezes a Ferris wheel, a haunted house and t…
Kappabashi Kitchen Town
かっぱ橋道具街Eight hundred metres of shops selling everything a restaurant needs, from lacquered bowls and bamboo steamers to neon si…
Nakamise Street
仲見世通りThe 250-metre approach between Kaminarimon and Senso-ji is one of Japan's oldest shopping streets, with stallholders gra…
Senso-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…
Roppongi
1 placesShibuya
1 placesTsukiji & Toyosu
4 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…
Tsukiji Outer Market
築地場外市場The wholesale fish market moved to Toyosu in 2018, but the lanes outside it stayed, and the Outer Market is now a 400-sh…
Shinjuku
2 placesHanazono Shrine
花園神社Hanazono Shrine has stood on this spot since before Edo was the capital, and it is now the guardian shrine of Kabukicho,…
Shinjuku 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…
Marunouchi
1 placesGinza
2 placesItoya Ginza
伊東屋 銀座本店A twelve-storey stationery shop founded in 1904 and still marked by a red paperclip over the door. Each floor takes one…
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…
Akihabara
1 placesKoenji
2 placesKoenji Awa Odori
東京高円寺阿波おどりThe Koenji Awa Odori is a dance festival imported in 1957 from Tokushima by local shopkeepers hoping to draw crowds to t…
Koenji Hikawa Shrine
高円寺氷川神社Koenji Hikawa Shrine is a small neighborhood shrine behind the station's south exit, founded in the Edo period, and it c…
Harajuku
1 placesYanaka
3 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…
Yanaka Ginza
谷中銀座A 170-metre shopping street of sixty small shops that has barely changed since the 1950s, at the heart of a neighbourhoo…
Ueno
4 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…
Tokyo National Museum
東京国立博物館The oldest and largest museum in Japan holds 120,000 objects, including nearly a hundred National Treasures, spread acro…
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…
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