Culture Witness Growth at the Edo Tokyo Architectural Museum Gaby Sun Traditional architecture ranging from the Edo period to the 20th century preserved in its original, functional state on beaut...
12 Culture Ume Blossoms at Hamarikyu Garden Leslie Taylor Ume Blossoms at Hamarikyu Garden in Tokyo bloom in February, showing that Spring is just around the corner!
6 Culture Kameido Tenjin Shrine Manish Prabhune Kameido Tenjin Shrine, also called Shitamachi-no Tenjin-sama, has an incredibly beautiful setting, right in the center of Tokyo.
Culture Yushima Seido Confucian Temple Todd Wojnowski The world's largest statue of Confucius stands in Tokyo's Yushima Seido, one of the biggest Confucian temples in Japan. Sitin...
Culture A Day at Shinjuku Gyoen John Dodd Shinjuku Gyoen is a 58 hectare-park containing three formal garden areas: English, French, & Japanese. It's a pleasure emergi...
Food Thai Garden, Shibuya Peter Sidell In Tokyo's lively Shibuya district, Thai Garden is a place to escape the noise and crowds, sit back and relax over some tasty...
Culture Asakusa’s Traditional Hagoita Fair Tomoko Kamishima Asakusa is famous for its annual year-end Hagoita (Battledore) Fair held December 17-19. It started in the late 16th century ...
Shopping Cutlery Tsubaya in Asakusa Kyle Hedlund Tsubaya is an enjoyable stop on anyone's Kappabashi stroll. The lineup of specialty cutlery on display is as fascinating as a...
Transportation Sky Hop Bus Kyle Hedlund Tokyo Sky Bus provides unlimited "hop-on, hop-off" access to three different routes covering many of central Tokyo's most pop...
Accommodation Agora Place Asakusa Kyle Hedlund Newly opened in July of 2012, Agora Place Asakusa is a stylish, chic hotel whose modern concepts make it unique in a tired ho...
