The busy market streets left behind when Tokyo's wholesale fish market moved to Toyosu, packed with stalls selling fresh sushi, grilled seafood, tamagoyaki (sweet omelette), knives and kitchen tools.
Go in the morning; many stalls close by early afternoon, and some on Sundays and Wednesdays. At the new Toyosu Market you can watch the tuna auction from a gallery very early in the morning.
An immersive digital art museum where you walk barefoot through rooms of light, water and mirrors, including a room of floating orchids and a pool wh…
Tokyo's oldest temple, founded in 628, entered through the Kaminarimon gate with its giant red lantern.
A Shinto shrine dedicated to Emperor Meiji and Empress Shōken, set in a forest of 100,000 trees in the middle of Tokyo, entered through huge wooden t…
A hot-spring resort in the mountains near Mount Fuji, ideal for staying in a ryokan (traditional inn) and bathing in an onsen.
Japan's highest and most sacred mountain, a near-perfect volcanic cone 3,776 m high, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The lavishly decorated shrine and mausoleum of Tokugawa Ieyasu, founder of the Tokugawa shogunate, in a cedar forest in the mountains north of Tokyo,…
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