Best Visiting around Tokyo and Surroundings Spot List

A charming shitamachi (downtown) shopping street lined with takeout shops, candy shops, izakaya (bars) and more.

The main gate of Sensoji Temple. Its huge, impressive paper lantern with ”Kaminarimon” written in kanji is a landmark of Asakusa.

The Hakone Ropeway operates for about 4km from Tougendai station, facing Lake Ashi via Ubako and Owakudani stations, to Sounzan station. Opened in 1959, currently over 2 million people ride it each year. On the route going through Hakone mountains, you can view the nature which changes by seasons, such as cherry blossoms, azaleas, hydrangeas, and red and yellow leaves, as well as allowing you to view Mount Fuji in the distance on a sunny day. From Sounzan Station, the terminal station, you can change trains to Hakone Tozan cable cars and go to Gora Onsen (hot springs) and further down to the Hakone Open-Air Museum by Hakone Tozan Railway.

Pick up your items at the airport counter upon arrival in Japan.

A Must-See Performance with Colorful Costumes and Spectacular Dancing

This is a museum built on the site where the Kawagoe Castle used to stand. Through various exhibitions, the museum explains how the people in the castle town lived.

This is a park overlooking Yokosuka Ironworks, to whose construction French engineer Léonce Verny contributed. The park is characterized by a French geometric garden.

A bridge built over the Sumida River after World War II with a panoramic view of skyscrapers in Tokyo.

Pick up your items at the airport counter upon arrival in Japan.

Ikebukuro Nishiguchi Park or the Ikebukuro West Gate Park is situated adjacent to the Tokyo Metropolitan Theater, which is located in front of the Ikebukuro Station. The park offers an artistic atmosphere with several art objects placed inside it.

This is where Michizane Sugawara, the god of learning and study, is enshrined. You can enjoy flower festivals, too; there are flowers blooming all year round.

The museum has the ancient Orient as its theme. Visitors can learn about the hunting and gathering life of 5,000 years ago as well as the invention of writing.

The Moyai statue is well-known as a meeting place at the Shibuya Station. It is a unique stone sculpture that has different faces carved on the front and the back.

This is an old temple that is said to have been built in the Kamakura period (1192 to 1333). During the Edo period (1603 to 1868), it became known for the tomi-kuji lottery and was called Edo-santomi (three shrines selling lotteries).

A history museum featuring precious cultural artifacts from the Kamakura Era.

The shrine was established by the then Shogun, Tokugawa Ienari. It is also known as an old Kanto Inari Sotsukasa shrine (the top Kanto area shrines enshrining the Inari.)

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Harbor View Park, or Minato-no-mieru-oka Koen is located on the hillside of the city, overlooking Yokohama Harbor and the Bay Bridge. It is a popular sightseeing course in Yokohama.

Surrounded by nature and visited by many people, Bentendo Temple rises from the center of Shinobazu Pond in Ueno Park.

A good old-fashioned shopping district with 70 older shops and a shitamachi (downtown) atmosphere.