Kyu Asakura House

Taisho period property with a beautiful Japanese garden

Bunkyo Civic Center

Described as a giant Pez candy dispenser, the Bunkyo Ward municipal building houses an observation deck on the…

Kappabashi Street

Commercial street famous for selling restaurant supplies where tourists can buy cheap crockery and “fake food”.

Asakusa

Lying along the Sumida River, Asakusa (浅草) is in the heart of Tokyo’s shitamachi. It is unfailingly on…

Kanda Myojin

Beautiful 1,300 year-old shrine where two of the Seven Gods of Fortune are enshrined (Daikokuten and Ebisu) and the home of the Kanda Festival.

Akihabara Radio Center

Warren of booths under the rail tracks selling retro gadgets and electronic components that is an icon of Akihabara.

Akasaka

Akasaka (赤坂) is a well-known nightspot located north of Roppongi and, like its neighbour, it has a very…

Yoyogi Park

Large park west of Shibuya ward especially popular during the cherry blossoms which also served as an Olympic Village for the 1964 Tokyo games.

Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden

One of the most famous gardens in central Tokyo covering an area of almost 60 hectares. It opened to the public in 1949 and today is home to three gardens (traditional Japanese, French formal, English landscape) and a rock-landscaped greenhouse.

Rikugien Gardens

300 year old garden designed by Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu and based on the “six tenets of poetry”.

Kyu Shiba Rikyu Garden

Kyu Shiba Rikyu Garden (旧芝離宮, KyĹ« Shiba RikyĹ«) was, like Rikugien and Koishikawa Korakuen, once a private garden of…