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Anamori Inari Shrine
A shrine near Haneda gives an airport-side excursion a neighbourhood destination.
The Tokyo edit
Places worth your time
The museums, garden and temple behind our Tokyo selection.
Explore our growing Tokyo selection, with checked details and official sources.
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Suga Shrine
A Yotsuya shrine and its stepped approach give a residential walk a clear landmark.
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Toyokawa Inari Tokyo Betsuin
Akasaka’s temple precinct offers a quieter spiritual stop among office streets.
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Maxell Aqua Park Shinagawa
An aquarium beside Shinagawa Station offers a weather-independent city outing.
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Sumida Aquarium
An aquarium in the Skytree area adds a close-up marine-life visit to an eastern Tokyo day.
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Asakusa Hanayashiki
A compact amusement park brings a playful change of pace to an Asakusa visit.
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Small Worlds
Miniature worlds turn an Ariake visit towards model-making and imagined cityscapes.
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Toyosu Market
A wholesale market visit offers a structured look at Tokyo’s food supply and seafood culture.
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Komiyama Tokyo G
Illustration, photography and a bookshop sensibility meet at this Jimbocho gallery from Komiyama Tokyo.
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Mizusai
A third-floor Kuramae gallery and shop for ceramics, objects and the work of contemporary makers.
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A contemporary-art stop upstairs in Bakurocho, with exhibitions shaped around emerging artistic practices.
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New Space PA
A flexible Harajuku and Omotesando space for exhibitions, pop-ups and short-run creative projects.
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Tetoka
Kanda’s Tetoka mixes a gallery programme with a café setting, craft objects and occasional music events.
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Maki Fine Arts
Contemporary painting and sculpture in a small Shinjuku gallery with an artist-led exhibition programme.
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Shikisaisha
A Kyobashi gallery built around solo exhibitions, with established painters and younger artists on the programme.
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Up & Coming
Tama Art University’s alternative gallery in Jingumae supports artists as they develop life beyond graduation.
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Taka Ishii Gallery Kyobashi
Taka Ishii Gallery’s Kyobashi room brings its contemporary-art programme into the Toda Building.
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OFS Gallery (Our Favourite Shop)
Design, paper and useful objects come together at Our Favourite Shop’s gallery in Ikejiri.
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Artdyne
A Kayabacho contemporary-art gallery for focused solo and group exhibitions, including new painting.
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Courage de Vivre
Ceramics and contemporary craft inside Roppongi’s AXIS Building, with a changing exhibition programme.
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Anomaly
Experimental contemporary art at Terrada Art Complex, with installations, moving image and performance in its programme.
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Gallery Koyanagi
Contemporary art above Ginza, in Gallery Koyanagi’s ninth-floor exhibition space.
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The Former Residence of Theodora Ozaki
A restored house in Gotokuji where manga exhibitions and a tea-room visit can share an afternoon.