Best around Tokyo and Surroundings Spot List

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 wide range of medicines, cosmetics, daily necessities, food, etc., with favorable prices and considerate services

A 4-minute walk from Musashikosugi station. ORIHICA is a Japanese business-casual brand offering high cost-performance suits and shirts for both men and women, with a slim fit design that combines practicality. Highly popular among Japanese office workers.

This is a time-honored iris garden with wide varieties, 200 cultivars, and 6,000 bulbs of irises blooming in a genuine Japanese garden.

Enjoy nature all through the seasons! A whole family can enjoy the day camping and outing by the riverbank.

About a 3-minute walk from JR Kouenji Station. A Japanese suit brand offering a variety of popular items, including non-iron shirt, washable suits, and a wide selection of business attire for both men and women.

Owakudani is filled with clouds of volcanic smoke and a sulfurous smell. Tasting the famous black eggs is a must.

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

This is an electronics mass retailer close to the Akihabara Station. There is a wide selection of popular home appliances. A store with a passport reader. All items are duty free.

A Western-style residence commissioned by former Prime Minister Ichiro Hatoyama. Various flowers such as roses bloom beautifully from season to season.

The former Wada residence―Kurosuke no ie― is a traditional folk house built over 100 years ago.

A community-based shopping mall crowded with shoppers and well-known for its Awa-Odori.

One-stop purchase of popular Japanese products.

Hijiri-bashi is a bridge over the Kanda River. Its three-dimensional piers are beautiful.

A museum relaunched in spring 2021 integrates the activities of the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (closed in 2021) and its annex Hara Museum ARC

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 is a memorial monument of a samurai commander in the mid-10th century with his decapitated head used to be buried in a corner of the office jungle in Otemachi, Tokyo.

A soaring five-story pagoda at Senso-ji Temple in Asakusa with magnificent nighttime illumination.

This park is one of the most famous sites for cherry blossom viewing in Japan and is also popular among foreign visitors. Other than cherry blossoms, the park offers its appeals any time of the year. There are festivals held in summer, tree leaves change colors in autumn, and peonies blooming in winter.

The museum displays valuable handicrafts and folk crafts, mainly Japanese antique ceramics and dyed or woven textiles that were selected by Japanese philosopher Yanagi Muneyoshi, collected from Japan and overseas.