Best around Tokyo Spot List

Located in the prestigious shopping district of Ginza, Mitsukoshi Ginza is a renowned department store popular with LIVE JAPAN readers. As one of Tokyo's premier luxury shopping destinations, it offers a wide range of products, from fashion to daily essentials and groceries. You'll find a dedicated tax-free counter and support services tailored to international visitors. Ginza is a well-known landmark that attracts many foreign tourists, and a visit to Mitsukoshi Ginza is definitely worth your while.

Watch Tokyo’s Downtown Area Lit Up by Fireworks at Night

It is the palace where the generations of Emperors and Empresses of Japan have lived starting in the Meiji era (1868-1912) to this day. You can visit the palace site as long as you obtain prior permission.

Originally created as part of the Imperial Palace, the gardens are now open to the public.

This is an admission-free zoo where you can interact with cute little animals. The area where you can pet rabbits and guinea pigs is popular.

Witness Japanese paper dyeing, a traditional craft that is designated a cultural heritage of Bunkyo Ward, here at Ochanomizu Origami Kaikan, or Japanese paper folding center.

A multi-use commercial complex representative of Omotesando. Distinguished by the sophisticated design of the building by the architect, Tadao Ando.

At Japan Sake and Shochu Information Center , you can look, touch, and experience Japanese sake, authentic shochu, awamori and so on.

Welcome to Duty-free shop ”LAOX”

A place to buy all the cosmetics that catch your fancy

A hall that holds rakugo (comic storytelling) performances throughout the year. It also holds a variety of other performances, such as manzai (a two-man comedy act), that are worth seeing.

This is a museum where you can enjoy learning the 400 years of history and culture of Edo-Tokyo.

A scenic park selected as one of the New Tokyo 100 Views. The verdant park has a baseball field, tennis courts, and an athletic open space.

An indoor theme park where you can meet Sanrio characters such as Hello Kitty.

A theater where you can appreciate various Japanese traditional performing arts such as kabuki (classical Japanese dance-drama) and bunraku (Japanese puppet theater).

Tokyo Tourist Information Center offers services including nationwide sightseeing information guidance, tour bookings, hotel reservations, and event ticket bookings for overseas tourists.

A progressive stationery store identifiable by a big red paperclip.

It is a shopping district specializing in food-related specialty shops, and the district stretches about 800 meters from north to south between the Asakusa and Ueno areas.

One of Japan's Three Big Festivals

A museum specializing in Japanese swords. Some 190 items including swords, mountings and fittings, armor, and information on metalwork.