Attraction
1. Senso-ji
Tokyo's oldest and most visited Buddhist temple, reached through the Kaminarimon gate and the shop-lined Nakamise approach in historic Asakusa.
View details — Senso-jiLandmarks, museums, historic sites, parks and viewpoints that draw visitors to a city, with practical notes on planning a visit.
10 places · Updated October 23, 2026
Attraction
Tokyo's oldest and most visited Buddhist temple, reached through the Kaminarimon gate and the shop-lined Nakamise approach in historic Asakusa.
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A major Shinto shrine dedicated to Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken, set in a large man-made forest beside Harajuku and Yoyogi Park.
View details — Meiji JinguAttraction
Japan's oldest national museum, founded in 1872, with a vast collection of Japanese and Asian art and archaeology across several galleries in Ueno Park.
View details — Tokyo National MuseumAttraction
The public gardens of the Imperial Palace, laid out on the Honmaru and Ninomaru grounds of the former Edo Castle in central Tokyo.
View details — Imperial Palace East GardensAttraction
At 634 metres, Japan's tallest tower, with observation decks at 350 and 450 metres offering sweeping views across Tokyo and, on clear days, Mount Fuji.
View details — Tokyo SkytreeAttraction
A 58-hectare national garden in Shinjuku combining Japanese, English landscape and French formal styles, famed for around 1,500 cherry trees.
View details — Shinjuku Gyoen National GardenAttraction
An immersive digital art museum in Toyosu where visitors walk barefoot through water-filled rooms and light installations by the art collective teamLab.
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The red-and-white 333-metre lattice tower that opened in 1958, with a Main Deck at 150 metres and a Top Deck at around 250 metres.
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One of Tokyo's first public parks, opened in 1873, home to major museums, a zoo, Ueno Toshogu shrine and the lotus-filled Shinobazu Pond.
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An Edo-period garden on Tokyo Bay built around a seawater tidal pond, with historic duck-hunting sites and a teahouse on an island.
View details — Hama-rikyu Gardens