31 Things To Do In Tokyo

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1. Senso-ji Temple (Asakusa)

10 km from city center

Buddhist Temple

Founded in 645 AD, Senso-ji is Tokyo's oldest Buddhist temple and one of the most visited religious sites in the world, drawing over 30 million visitors a year. It is dedicated to Kannon, the bodhisattva of compassion. The approach runs through the massive Kaminarimon (Thunder Gate) with its giant red lantern, along the 250-metre Nakamise-dori shopping street lined with roughly 72 stalls selling s (Read More)ouvenirs and traditional snacks, before reaching the Hozomon Gate and the main hall itself.

4.3 /5

3 km from city center

Commercial Street

Shibuya Crossing, outside the Hachiko exit, moves up to 3,000 people on a single green light. Street level is the least interesting view of it: Shibuya Sky puts you 230 metres up on an open roof, and the station Starbucks does the same job for free. Behind it sits Tokyo's centre of gravity for shopping and nightlife. Note the year-round street drinking ban after 6pm.

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₹2,064

4.5 /5

11 km from city center

Landmark

At 634 metres this is the tallest structure in Japan, with decks at 350 and 450 metres and the Solamachi mall and an aquarium stacked underneath. Book online rather than at the counter: advance tickets are cheaper than same-day, and weekdays cheaper than weekends. It stays open until 22:00 with no closing days, so it works as an evening stop once the temples have shut.

4.2 /5

2 km from city center

Religious Experience

A Shinto shrine to Emperor Meiji set in 70 hectares of planted forest beside Harajuku, and the forest is the point: a ten-minute walk under enormous torii gates before you reach the halls, which are post-war rebuilds. The grounds are free and open from sunrise to sunset. The Inner Garden costs extra and earns it only in mid-June, when the irises are out.

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₹2,064

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10 km from city center

Museum

teamLab Planets TOKYO is a barefoot digital art museum in Toyosu, Koto City, where visitors move through four large-scale installations and two gardens created by the teamLab collective. Shoes come off at the entrance: guests wade knee-deep through a mirrored water room, climb a floating-flower garden, and pass through rooms of shifting projected light and sound. Open since July 2018, it is one of (Read More) Tokyo's most-visited attractions, rated 4.5 stars across more than 55,000 Google reviews, with a strong following among Instagram and short-video travellers. Advance online tickets are required.

Instagram Worthy

4 km from city center

Viewpoint

Shibuya Sky's top level is an open rooftop roughly 230 metres above the street, with nothing between you and the city. It opened in November 2019 on the roof of Shibuya Scramble Square, and the 2,500 square metre rooftop looks directly down on the Shibuya scramble crossing, which is the one thing Tokyo Sky Tree and Tokyo Tower cannot show you. A further 3,000 square metres of indoor viewing space (Read More)sits below it for wind, rain and winter evenings.

7. Shinjuku (district)

Top Attraction

1 km from city center

Nightlife

Shinjuku is Tokyo's busiest district, built around Shinjuku Station, the world's busiest railway station at roughly 3.6 million daily passengers. West of the station, Nishi-Shinjuku holds Tokyo's densest cluster of skyscrapers, including the twin-towered Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, whose 45th-floor observation decks are free to enter. Nearby, Omoide Yokocho (officially Shinjuku Nishigu (Read More)chi Shotengai) is a narrow lane of small yakitori stalls. East of the station, Kabukicho's Golden Gai packs over 200 tiny bars into six alleys. This district card is separate from Shinjuku Gyoen park.

Day Trip to Mount Fuji and Lake Kawaguchiko

Top Attraction

83 km from city center

Day Trip

You do not climb it on a day trip, you look at it. Two hours from Shinjuku by highway bus or limited express, and the shot everyone comes for is Chureito Pagoda with the mountain behind it, ten minutes on foot from Shimoyoshida station. Clear views come far more often in the colder months and around dawn than on a summer afternoon.

Top Attraction

8 km from city center

Garden & Park

Ueno Park is Tokyo's oldest and most-visited public park, opened in 1873 on grounds once belonging to Kan'ei-ji temple. Spread across about 54 hectares in Taito, it draws over ten million visitors a year, more than any other city park in Japan. Highlights include roughly 800 cherry trees along the central promenade, the lotus beds of Shinobazu Pond, and Ueno Zoo, the country's oldest zoo. Away fro (Read More)m spring's hanami crowds, tree-lined paths and open lawns make it a year-round green escape near Ueno Station.

3.5 /5

8 km from city center

Commercial Street

The electronics reputation is decades out of date. Akihabara now runs on anime, manga, retro games and figurines, sold through multi-floor specialist shops like Mandarake and the thirty-odd stores inside Radio Kaikan. Come on a Sunday afternoon, when Chuo Dori closes to traffic. If you try a maid cafe, settle the cover charge and per-item prices before you sit down.

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₹5,378

Top Attraction

18 km from city center

Amusement & Theme Park

Tokyo Disneyland is the original Disney theme park in Japan, part of Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu, Chiba, just east of central Tokyo. Opened on 15 April 1983, it was the first Disney park built outside the United States and is owned and run by the Oriental Land Company under license from Disney. The 51-hectare park has seven themed lands, including World Bazaar and Fantasyland, centered on Cinde (Read More)rella Castle. It draws over 15 million visitors a year, among the most-visited theme parks worldwide.

4.5 /5

19 km from city center

Amusement & Theme Park

The more design-led of the two Tokyo Disney parks, themed around ports of call rather than a castle, and the one adults tend to prefer. Fantasy Springs opened in June 2024 as an eighth port, adding Frozen, Rapunzel and Peter Pan areas. Tickets are date-specific and park-specific, so one will not get you into Disneyland next door. Both parks are in Chiba, not Tokyo.

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₹4,291

3.7 /5

3 km from city center

Commercial Street

Takeshita-dori is four hundred metres of teen boutiques, thrift shops and crepe stands, and it is shoulder to shoulder at weekends, so come on a weekday morning. The street cosplay scene the district is famous for ended years ago. Omotesando, running south, is the better walk: a tree-lined avenue of flagship architecture, with Cat Street linking the two.

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₹6,518

Top Things To Do

11 km from city center

Waterfront

Odaiba is an artificial island in Tokyo Bay reached via the Rainbow Bridge or the automated Yurikamome train. Built originally as 1850s coastal defense batteries, it was redeveloped in the 1990s into a shopping and leisure district. Visitors come for waterfront views of the Rainbow Bridge and central Tokyo skyline, malls including Aqua City and DiverCity Tokyo Plaza, a full-scale Unicorn Gundam st (Read More)atue outside DiverCity, the Miraikan science museum, and a replica Statue of Liberty along the promenade.

3.8 /5

6 km from city center

Forts & Palaces

The Emperor's residence, built on the site of Edo Castle. The palace itself opens to the public on just two days a year, 2 January and the Emperor's birthday on 23 February, so what you actually visit is the East Gardens: free, and holding the castle ruins, the old donjon foundation and the moats. They close on Mondays and Fridays, which is the trip people waste.

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₹1,630

43 km from city center

Day Trip

An hour from Tokyo Station on the Yokosuka line, covered by the Japan Rail Pass, and the easiest way to see an old temple town without giving up a night. The Great Buddha has sat in the open air since a storm took its hall in 1498, and Hokoku-ji serves matcha inside a bamboo grove. Go on a weekday: the town takes about nineteen million visitors a year.

79 km from city center

Day Trip

An onsen valley about ninety minutes from Shinjuku, usually done as a loop: switchback railway, cablecar, then a ropeway over the sulphur vents at Owakudani and a boat across Lake Ashi. The Hakone Free Pass covers the whole circuit. The ropeway suspends for gas or high wind fairly often, so check its status on the morning you travel.

Top Attraction

119 km from city center

Day Trip

Tokugawa Ieyasu's mausoleum, and the most heavily decorated shrine complex in Japan: the Yomeimon gate, the three wise monkeys, the sleeping cat. Two hours from Asakusa on the Tobu line. Treat it as two destinations rather than one. The shrines are a ten-minute bus from the station, while Lake Chuzenji and Kegon Falls are another fifty minutes up a hairpin road.

3.4 /5

2 km from city center

Garden & Park

Three gardens in one, Japanese landscape, formal French and English lawn, a few minutes from Shinjuku Station. Entry is 500 yen and it closes on Mondays. It holds over 400 Somei Yoshino cherry trees and stays open through blossom season, but weekend visits at the peak in late March and early April need an advance online reservation.

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₹1,956

Great For Family Outing

11 km from city center

Museum

The Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, western Tokyo, is devoted to the animation of Studio Ghibli, the studio behind My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away, and Princess Mononoke. Opened in October 2001 and designed with director Hayao Miyazaki's input, the museum has no fixed exhibit route. Rooms include a recreated animator's studio, original production sketches, and a giant plush Catbus that children can cli (Read More)mb into. The rooftop garden holds a five-meter robot soldier statue from Castle in the Sky. Entry requires a pre-purchased, dated ticket.

3.6 /5

8 km from city center

The wholesale market and its tuna auction moved to Toyosu in 2018. What is left at Tsukiji is the outer market, a grid of narrow lanes selling sushi breakfasts, tamagoyaki, knives and kitchen tools, and for most travellers it is the better visit of the two. Go between Tuesday and Saturday, early: it shuts Sundays and holidays and most stalls close by early afternoon.

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₹2,173

Top Attraction

6 km from city center

Landmark

Completed in 1958, Tokyo Tower is a 332.9-metre communications and observation tower in Shiba Park, Minato, modeled loosely on the Eiffel Tower and painted white and international orange to meet air-safety rules. It offers two observation levels, the Main Deck at 150 metres and the Top Deck at 249.6 metres, along with FootTown, a five-story base building with shops, restaurants and a small aquariu (Read More)m. Though surpassed in height by Tokyo Skytree in 2012, it remains one of the city's most recognizable landmarks and a steady draw for visitors.

3.7 /5

7 km from city center

Garden & Park

A feudal lord's duck-hunting estate on Tokyo Bay, now ringed by the Shiodome towers, with seawater ponds that rise and fall with the tide. Three hundred yen, open daily. The part people miss is the teahouse on the pond island, where you can sit with matcha and the skyline behind it. The Sumida river boat from Asakusa lands here, which makes an easy pairing.

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₹1,630

Top Attraction

7 km from city center

Commercial Street

Ginza is a shopping and dining district in Tokyo's Chuo ward, just south of Tokyo Station. It hosts flagship stores from Chanel, Dior, Louis Vuitton, and Gucci along the main Chuo-dori avenue, alongside long-established department stores. The Wako building, topped by the Hattori Clock Tower, marks the district's central intersection; the current structure dates from 1932, replacing the original 18 (Read More)94 building on the site. Kabuki-za, Tokyo's principal kabuki theatre, sits nearby. On Saturday and Sunday afternoons, Chuo-dori closes to vehicle traffic, turning the avenue into a pedestrian-only zone known as Hokosha Tengoku.

Top Attraction

9 km from city center

Sporting Events & Stadiums

Ryogoku Kokugikan is Tokyo's national sumo arena, an 11,098-seat hall in the Sumida district that has been sumo's heartland since the Edo period. The current building, opened in 1985, hosts three of Japan's six annual Grand Sumo tournaments each year, in January, May and September, and doubles as headquarters for the Japan Sumo Association. It also contains the Sumo Museum. The surrounding streets (Read More) are dense with sumo stables where wrestlers train and chanko nabe restaurants serving the stew associated with the sport.

3.4 /5

4 km from city center

Commercial Street

Roppongi's reputation abroad is nightlife, but the reason to come in daylight is art: the Mori Art Museum, the Suntory Museum of Art and the National Art Center sit within a short walk of each other. The Mori shares its floor with the Tokyo City View deck, so you get a gallery and a skyline in one stop. After dark, do not follow touts into bars.

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₹869

3.5 /5

8 km from city center

Museum

Japan's oldest national museum, open since 1872 in Ueno Park, and also the country's largest art museum. The collection runs to about 120,000 objects, 89 of them designated National Treasures, with only around 3,000 on show at any one time. Displays rotate every few weeks, so a repeat visit rarely shows the same thing twice.

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₹2,151

3.6 /5

1 km from city center

Commercial Street

Japan's largest nightlife and red-light district, and for most visitors a walk-through rather than a night out. The mainstream version is Tokyu Kabukicho Tower, opened in 2023, with an arcade, a food hall and live venues. Golden Gai's two hundred tiny bars and the yakitori alleys of Omoide Yokocho are next door. Never follow a street tout into a bar.

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₹1,901

Popular among Locals

8 km from city center

Neighborhood

Yanaka is a low-rise district in Taito ward, just north of Ueno, where narrow lanes, wooden shopfronts and small temples have survived since long before the high-rises went up elsewhere in the city. Its best-known stretch, Yanaka Ginza, is a covered shopping street lined with butchers, bakeries and snack stalls selling goods at old-town prices. Nearby, Yanaka Cemetery's tree-lined paths and Tennoj (Read More)i Temple's bronze Buddha make it one of the few central Tokyo areas that still feels like the old capital.

Popular among Locals

11 km from city center

Garden & Park

Kichijoji is a neighbourhood in Musashino, western Tokyo, built around Kichijoji Station and the shopping streets leading south to Inokashira Park. The park, opened in 1917, centers on a long pond used for rowboats, with a small zoo, a Benzaiten shrine, and pathways favoured by street performers and cherry-blossom crowds every spring. Sun Road and the surrounding lanes are packed with cafes, bouti (Read More)ques, and izakayas. The Ghibli Museum sits at the park's southwest corner in neighbouring Mitaka, making the area a natural pairing for a half-day visit.

3.3 /5

41 km from city center

Hills & Valleys

A 599-metre mountain inside Tokyo city limits and the easiest real hike from the centre, with a thousand-year-old temple near the top and Mount Fuji visible on clear days. Trail 1 is paved and takes about ninety minutes, or a cablecar halves it. Get there on the Keio line from Shinjuku, which the Japan Rail Pass does not cover. Avoid weekends and late November.

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Things To Do In Tokyo

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31 Things To Do In Tokyo

1. Senso-ji Temple (Asakusa)

2. Shibuya

3. Tokyo Sky Tree

4. Meiji Shrine

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7. Shinjuku (district)

8. Day Trip to Mount Fuji and Lake Kawaguchiko

9. Ueno Park

10. Akihabara

11. Tokyo Disneyland

12. Tokyo DisneySea

13. Harajuku

14. Odaiba

15. Tokyo Imperial Palace

16. Day Trip to Kamakura

17. Day Trip to Hakone

18. Day Trip to Nikko

19. Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden

20. Ghibli Museum (Mitaka)

21. Tsukiji Market

22. Tokyo Tower

23. Hamarikyu Gardens

24. Ginza

25. Ryogoku

26. Roppongi

27. Tokyo National Museum

28. Kabukicho

29. Yanaka

30. Kichijoji / Inokashira Park

31. Takaosan

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