Best Visiting around Tokyo and Surroundings Spot List

Nippon Camera Hakubutsu-kan or the JCII Camera Museum is a museum operated by the Japan Camera Industry Institute, and you can have fun learning and familiarizing yourself with cameras by looking at and touching cameras. There are more than 300 cameras on display.

A park built in Kurihama in commemoration of the landing of Commodore Matthew C. Perry of the United States Navy.

Famous for the Great Buddha of Kamakura which weighs 121 tonnes, Kotoku-in is a Buddhist temple of the Jodo-shu sect.

This lake beautifully compliments Mount Fuji, a World Heritage Site. You can enjoy many leisure activities in the vast natural surroundings.

This is the ski resort where you can enjoy 3 seasons from the Fall to the Spring. The slope is covered by a roof top so weather does not impact it and there is no need to worry about ultra-violet rays from the Sun!

Traditional Japanese bathhouses(SENTO).

This is the site where the revenge of the 47 Ronin (Ako-roshi) took place. On the same property is Matsuzaka-inari shrine, which enshrines Kira and the well said to have been used to clean his head.

One of two Daihonzan (head temples) of the Soto school of Zen Buddhism, with modern buildings in the spacious temple grounds. You can practice Zen meditation here.

A spacious Buddhist temple with buildings of historical and cultural value. Kan'ei-ji is easily accessible to the general public and heartily welcomes visitors.

One of Japan's Three Big Festivals

See the Night Sky Illuminated with Over 20,000 Fireworks

The Enoshima Shrine is situated on Enoshima Island and is dedicated to the worship of three sister goddesses. It is a popular power spot to increase luck with money and matchmaking.

Hikawa Maru, an ocean liner of Nippon Yusen (NYK Line or Japan Mail Shipping Line), is one of the historical cargo-passenger ships and was built in 1930 for the purpose of running a regular route to Seattle. Today, the liner is open to the public and the visitors can enter the guestroom, the dining room, wheelhouse, the engine room, and other areas.

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.

A wide variety of plays such as kabuki, comedy, modern, and melodramatic shinpa can be enjoyed in the theater. It is also an ideal theater to feel close to the Japanese traditional performing arts.

This aquarium has introduced Japan's first tunnel aquarium, which offers a 360-degree view of the seals swimming around. It is an aquarium that both kids and adults can enjoy.

Newly renovated in 2002, it is an international passenger terminal that Japan boasts about to the world.

An archaeological park in Minato Ward, Tokyo with a reconstructed pit-house from the latter Jomon Period (approximately 4,000 years ago).

Ishikawa Brewery is where numerous traditional Japanese-style warehouses stand. It also has restaurants where you can enjoy sake and local beer.

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