Tokyo — Sights
Trains on the second, cats asleep in the lanes.
- Mori Art Museum — Large contemporary-art exhibitions high above Roppongi
- Nezu Museum — Asian art and garden walks in Aoyama
- Hamarikyu Gardens — Tidal ponds framed by a modern city skyline
- Koishikawa Korakuen Gardens — A strolling garden inspired by Japanese and Chinese scenery
- Rikugien Gardens — Pond-and-hill garden inspired by waka poetry
- Kiyosumi Gardens — Collected garden stones and waterside stepping stones
- Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum — Art Deco residence and garden with changing exhibitions
- 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT — Exhibitions exploring design through everyday themes
- The National Art Center, Tokyo — Changing exhibitions inside a curving glass building
- The Sumida Hokusai Museum — A museum exploring Hokusai’s art and life
- Yayoi Kusama Museum — An advance-booked visit to Yayoi Kusama’s work
- Zojoji Temple — A Tokugawa-associated temple beneath Tokyo Tower
- Tokyo Station Gallery — Changing exhibitions inside Tokyo Station’s brick building
- Miraikan — Science and future society museum — currently closed for refurbishment
- Suntory Museum of Art — Japanese art and crafts exhibitions at Tokyo Midtown
- SHIBUYA SKY — An open-air rooftop looking straight down on the Scramble Crossing
- Tokyo Skytree — Look out over all of Tokyo from 350 m and 450 m up a 634 m tower
- Tokyo Tower — The red lattice tower and its 150 m deck over the city lights
- Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building Observatory — Free night views from 202 m above Shinjuku
- Senso-ji, Asakusa — Tokyo's oldest temple, from the giant red lantern to the main hall
- Meiji Jingu — A towering wooden torii and a 70-hectare forest next to Harajuku Station
- Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden — Japanese, English and French gardens beside the skyscrapers; cherry and maple favourite
- Takeshita Street, Harajuku — About 350 m of teen fashion, character shops and crêpes
- Akihabara Electric Town — Block after block of figures, games, gachapon and electronics
- Ginza — Department stores, luxury and stationery on a street that goes car-free at weekends
- teamLab Planets TOKYO — Barefoot, knee-deep in water, inside room-sized digital art
- Ghibli Museum, Mitaka — A museum in the woods with Totoro at the ticket window; booking only
- Tokyo National Museum — Japan's biggest museum: samurai armour, swords and Buddhas at the end of Ueno Park
- Tokyo DisneySea — The 'grown-up Disney' of volcanoes, Venetian canals and Fantasy Springs
- Kamakura & Enoshima — An open-air Buddha, a seaside tram and the Slam Dunk crossing in one day
- Imperial Palace East Gardens — Edo Castle walls and lawns, free, in the middle of downtown
- Nezu Shrine — An old Tokyo shrine with a red torii tunnel and April azaleas
- Gotokuji Temple — The lucky-cat temple with hundreds of white maneki-neko
- Ueno Toshogu Shrine — An Edo-period shrine with a gilded karamon and a lantern-lined path
- Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum — An open-air museum of relocated old buildings, down to a bathhouse and shop streets
- Hie Shrine — Red torii climb a hill between office towers
- Tsukiji Hongwanji Temple — An Indian-style stone temple with a pipe organ
- Asakura Museum of Sculpture, Taito — A sculptor's home with a rooftop garden and pond
- Sunshine Aquarium — Penguins and sea lions swim over your head on the roof
- Yushima Tenmangu Shrine — A plum-blossom shrine where students pray to pass exams