Best Visiting around Tokyo and Surroundings Spot List

The Festival Connected with the Tokugawa Shogun Visits to the Kanda Shrine

Takarazuka is a revue composed solely of unmarried women, and it has been popular since its first performance in 1914. This theater acts as its base in Tokyo.

The Iroha-zaka Slopes refer to two mountain roads with a total of 48 hairpin turns. The roads are famous for their great views.

The bridge stretching over the Sumida River was a favorite motif of Ukiyoe artist, Hiroshige Utagawa (1797-1858) of the end of the Edo period (1600/1603-1868).

A tied-arch bridge that imitated the Ludendorff Bridge in Germany.

3.2km of gondolas, 4.5km of powder snow trails through frost covered forests.

The History of Tsukiji Lives On

It is a museum where the Japanese maritime history can be learned from videos and valuable displays. The NYK Maritime Museum widely introduces the history of marine vessels along with the history of Nippon Yusen as a company. (NYK stands for Nippon Yusen Kaisha, a shipping company.)

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

The temple hall is classified as an Important Cultural Property, modeled after Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto Higashiyama. The gorgeous vermillion facade fascinates visitors.

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

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

A bridge with a beautiful rectilinear design listed in ”100 Views of New Tokyo.”

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

The bridge is called Kuramae (”front of warehouse”) since rice was stored in the area during the Edo period. Painted in bright yellow, the bridge reminds us of rice grains.

Traditional Japanese bathhouses(SENTO).

The Perry Memorial Hall is a museum that illustrates the Perry Expedition (1853－1854), which paved the way to the opening of Japan, and the history leading to it through dioramas and historical documents.

Main priests' residence of Senso-ji complex where the Three Buddha Statues of Amitabha are enshrined. The temple also houses ancestral tablets of Tokugawa Shoguns.

A place where you can take fantastic pictures of the sea and Enoshima

Shibuya's top commercial district right near the Shibuya scramble crossing. Has a wide variety of shops including restaurants and karaoke stores.