https://tokyotravel.com/ The Tokyo travel portal — neighbourhood guides, day trips to Mount Fuji, Hakone, Nikko, Kamakura and Yokohama, transport, seasons and the best tours. en https://tokyotravel.com/itineraries/ https://tokyotravel.com/itineraries/ Realistic Tokyo itineraries for 3, 5 and 7 days: which districts to combine, when to fit in Mount Fuji, Hakone, Nikko or Kamakura, what to book ahead and how to adapt for rain, children and repeat visits. Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tokyotravel.com/getting-there/ https://tokyotravel.com/getting-there/ How to get to Tokyo and around it: Narita vs Haneda, the Narita Express, Skyliner, limousine buses, Keikyu and the monorail, plus Suica and PASMO, JR vs Metro vs Toei, the Tokyo Subway Ticket and rail passes. Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tokyotravel.com/travel-guide/ https://tokyotravel.com/travel-guide/ Practical Tokyo travel guide: entry rules, money and costs, cash and IC cards, tax-free shopping, etiquette, eSIM and pocket Wi-Fi, luggage forwarding and coin lockers, earthquakes, health, food and accessibility. Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tokyotravel.com/when-to-go/ https://tokyotravel.com/when-to-go/ The best time to visit Tokyo: month-by-month weather and crowds, cherry-blossom and autumn-leaf timing, the rainy and typhoon seasons, sumo tournaments, baseball and the festival calendar. Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tokyotravel.com/tours/ https://tokyotravel.com/tours/ The best tours, tickets and experiences in Tokyo, ranked and grouped by destination: teamLab, Shibuya Sky, Skytree, sumo shows, food tours, go-karts and day trips to Mount Fuji, Hakone, Nikko and Kamakura. Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tokyotravel.com/where-to-stay/ https://tokyotravel.com/where-to-stay/ Where to stay in Tokyo: a neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood comparison of Shinjuku, Shibuya, Ginza, Asakusa, Ueno and more, with well-reviewed hotels in each of fifteen destinations and links to live Trip.com rates. Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tokyotravel.com/destinations/shinjuku/ https://tokyotravel.com/destinations/shinjuku/ Shinjuku is Tokyo turned up to full volume: the busiest railway station on earth, the neon canyons of Kabukicho, lantern-lit alleys of six-seat bars — and, ten minutes’ walk away, one of the city’s loveliest gardens. Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tokyotravel.com/destinations/shibuya-harajuku/ https://tokyotravel.com/destinations/shibuya-harajuku/ Shibuya is the Tokyo of the famous crossing and the open-air rooftop of Shibuya Sky; Harajuku, one stop north, pairs teenage street fashion with the cedar forest of Meiji Jingu. Together they make the city’s most energetic day out. Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tokyotravel.com/destinations/asakusa-skytree/ https://tokyotravel.com/destinations/asakusa-skytree/ Asakusa is old Tokyo: the great red gate and incense smoke of Senso-ji, a street of stalls that has fed pilgrims for centuries, rickshaws and kimono. Across the Sumida River, Tokyo Skytree rises 634 metres above it all. Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tokyotravel.com/destinations/ginza-marunouchi/ https://tokyotravel.com/destinations/ginza-marunouchi/ The polished centre of the capital: Ginza’s department stores and galleries, the red-brick Tokyo Station and the office towers of Marunouchi, the moats of the Imperial Palace, and breakfast at Tsukiji Outer Market. Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tokyotravel.com/destinations/ueno-yanaka/ https://tokyotravel.com/destinations/ueno-yanaka/ Ueno packs Japan’s greatest museums, a zoo, a lotus pond and a thousand cherry trees into one park, with the shouting stallholders of Ameyoko below. A short walk north, Yanaka’s temple lanes show what Tokyo looked like before the towers. Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tokyotravel.com/destinations/akihabara-kanda/ https://tokyotravel.com/destinations/akihabara-kanda/ Akihabara is the world capital of otaku culture: multi-storey anime and game stores, retro consoles, arcades, maid cafés and the electronics shops that started it all. Around it, old Kanda offers a venerable shrine, railway-arch cafés and Tokyo’s secondhand-book quarter. Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tokyotravel.com/destinations/roppongi-azabudai/ https://tokyotravel.com/destinations/roppongi-azabudai/ Roppongi has grown from a nightlife quarter into Tokyo’s art and architecture district: Roppongi Hills and the Mori Art Museum, the National Art Center, the new Azabudai Hills with teamLab Borderless — and, glowing orange beside them, Tokyo Tower. Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tokyotravel.com/destinations/odaiba-toyosu/ https://tokyotravel.com/destinations/odaiba-toyosu/ Tokyo’s waterfront playground on reclaimed islands in the bay: barefoot digital art at teamLab Planets, the dawn tuna auction at Toyosu Market, a life-size Gundam, beaches, museums and the Rainbow Bridge skyline. Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tokyotravel.com/destinations/ikebukuro/ https://tokyotravel.com/destinations/ikebukuro/ Ikebukuro is the big-city hub that tourists overlook: a skyscraper complex with an aquarium and observatory, Tokyo’s second anime district, two giant department stores, famously competitive ramen — and hotel prices below Shinjuku’s. Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tokyotravel.com/destinations/tokyo-disney-resort/ https://tokyotravel.com/destinations/tokyo-disney-resort/ Two theme parks on the bay just east of Tokyo: classic Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea, a nautical-themed park found nowhere else in the world and widely rated among the best Disney parks anywhere. Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tokyotravel.com/destinations/mount-fuji-kawaguchiko/ https://tokyotravel.com/destinations/mount-fuji-kawaguchiko/ The classic day trip from Tokyo: about two hours by bus or train to Lake Kawaguchiko at the northern foot of Mount Fuji, for the postcard view from Chureito Pagoda, lakeside walks, spring-water villages and hot-spring inns. Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tokyotravel.com/destinations/hakone/ https://tokyotravel.com/destinations/hakone/ Tokyo’s favourite mountain escape, 90 minutes from Shinjuku: a loop by mountain train, cable car, ropeway and lake cruise through steaming valleys and cedar forest, ending in a hot-spring bath. Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tokyotravel.com/destinations/nikko/ https://tokyotravel.com/destinations/nikko/ Two hours north of Tokyo, Nikko holds the most lavish shrine in Japan — Toshogu, the mausoleum of the first Tokugawa shogun — and, up a famous hairpin road, the Kegon Falls and Lake Chuzenji in a national park. Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tokyotravel.com/destinations/kamakura-enoshima/ https://tokyotravel.com/destinations/kamakura-enoshima/ Japan’s first samurai capital is now a relaxed seaside town of temples, hiking trails and surf beaches. Add the little Enoden railway and the island of Enoshima and you have the most varied day trip from Tokyo. Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tokyotravel.com/destinations/yokohama/ https://tokyotravel.com/destinations/yokohama/ Japan’s second-largest city feels like Tokyo with room to breathe: a waterfront you can walk from end to end, the country’s largest Chinatown, a classical garden and one of the best night views in the region. Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT