Tokyo 🇯🇵
東京 · 89 places · 5 neighbourhoods
Thirteen cities pretending to be one.
Neighbourhoods
A city is too big to plan an evening around
Anime in Tokyo
Frames you can stand inside
Suga Shrine Steps
The staircase from the last scene, on an ordinary street.
Ghibli Museum, Mitaka
Miyazaki designed it so you would get lost in it.
Hikawa Shrine, Motoazabu
The shrine behind Sailor Moon, on a hill in Azabu.
Shinjuku Gyoen
The garden from The Garden of Words, in the rain.
Docomo Tower from Southern Terrace
The clock tower on the skyline in Your Name.
Tokyo Big Sight
Four inverted pyramids, and the home of Comiket.
Landmarks in Tokyo
The ones worth the crowd
Shibuya Scramble Crossing
Three thousand people crossing at once, every two minutes.
Tokyo Skytree
The tallest thing in Japan, by some distance.
Ryōgoku Kokugikan
The national sumo stadium, and the streets around it.
Tokyo Station Marunouchi Building
A 1914 red-brick facade, restored to its full height.
Nihonbashi
Kilometre zero for every road in Japan.
Hachikō Statue
The dog who waited, and Tokyo’s default meeting point.
Shopping in Tokyo
Vintage, design and everything odd
Shimokitazawa
Vintage shops and tiny live houses, no cars.
Nakano Broadway
Four floors of collectors selling to collectors.
Daikanyama T-Site
A bookshop worth crossing the city for, open until midnight.
Nakamise-dōri
Two hundred metres of shopfronts leading to the temple.
Kappabashi Kitchen Street
Where Tokyo’s restaurants buy everything.
Jimbōchō Book Town
A hundred and fifty secondhand bookshops on one street.
Cafés in Tokyo
Long sits and good coffee
Café de l'Ambre
A coffee-only counter that has been aging beans since 1948.
Kissa You
The omurice that collapses when you cut it.
Blue Bottle Kiyosumi-Shirakawa
The warehouse that turned Kiyosumi into coffee country.
Kayaba Coffee
A 1938 corner kissaten, still doing the egg sandwich.
Glitch Coffee & Roasters
Light-roast filter, taken seriously.
Meguro River Walk
Eight hundred cherry trees over a narrow canal.
Culture in Tokyo
Shrines, palaces and quiet rooms
Kanda Myojin Shrine
A 1,300-year-old shrine that blesses laptops.
teamLab Planets TOKYO
Walk barefoot through knee-deep water and projected light.
Nezu Shrine
A miniature torii tunnel without the Kyoto queue.
Sensō-ji
Tokyo’s oldest temple, and it never stops moving.
Sumida Park Riverside
The river walk with the Skytree on one side.
Tomioka Hachimangū
The shrine where sumo became a public sport.
Food in Tokyo
Markets, counters and late kitchens
Yanaka Ginza
A single shopping street the war and the developers both missed.
Tsukishima Monja Street
Seventy shops cooking the same runny pancake.
Ameyoko Market
A postwar black market that never closed.
Tsukiji Outer Market
The wholesale market left, the good food stayed.
Nonbei Yokochō
Forty postwar bars in the shadow of the tracks.
Omoide Yokochō
Yakitori smoke in a lane the width of a corridor.
J-Drama & Film in Tokyo
Japanese live action, on location
Quieter corners of Tokyo
22 places most visitors walk past