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Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden
Trees, lawns and a change of pace near Shinjuku. A paid garden visit with seasonal hours, worth giving a little breathing room.
Good things are out there
Follow your curiosity.
A name, a neighbourhood, a mood. Start somewhere.
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Horikiri Iris Garden
A Katsushika garden offers an iris-season destination and a quieter local walk.
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Higo Hosokawa Garden
A pond-centred garden offers an unhurried route through this part of Bunkyo.
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Meguro Sky Garden
A garden above road infrastructure offers an unusual urban-design stop near Ikejiri.
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Koishikawa Botanical Garden
Botanical research becomes a walk among an extensive collection of plants.
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Nezu Museum
Art, a garden and a slower pace in Minami-Aoyama, with admission tied to the exhibition calendar.
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Hama-rikyū Gardens
A tidal pond, pine trees and Shiodome’s towers in the same frame. Give this waterside garden an unhurried hour.
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Kyu Shiba Rikyu Gardens
A traditional landscape garden sits surprisingly close to Hamamatsucho’s transport hub.
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Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum
Art Deco rooms and a garden make Shirokanedai an architectural afternoon.
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Shunkaen Bonsai Museum
Bonsai and garden settings reward a dedicated journey into eastern Tokyo.
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Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum
An Aoyama studio and garden open a personal route into Okamoto’s world.
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Kyu-Furukawa Gardens
Western-style architecture and Japanese garden design meet in northern Tokyo.
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Tokyo, at your own pace
Three ways to shape a Tokyo day: a garden, a temple neighbourhood or an afternoon with art. Choose one starting point.
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Gotoh Museum
Japanese and East Asian collections sit within a garden setting in Kaminoge.
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Rikugien Gardens
A landscape garden whose paths turn a pond into a sequence of changing views.
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Koishikawa Kōrakuen Gardens
A historic landscape garden beside Tokyo Dome, with carefully composed views.
Free entry
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Hibiya Park
Central Tokyo’s garden paths make a useful green pause between Ginza and Marunouchi.
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Tokyo, from gardens to the dance floor
A garden morning, two very different art stops, tonkatsu and WOMB. A full Tokyo day that saves some energy for Shibuya.
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Sogetsu Kaikan
Kenzo Tange’s Sogetsu building in Akasaka brings together ikebana, design and a performance hall.
Free entry
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Meiji Jingū
Trade Harajuku’s shopfronts for the long, wooded approach to Meiji Jingū. An early visit leaves room for a slow lunch in Aoyama.
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Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Photography and moving images in Ebisu, with an exhibition-led programme and late openings on Thursdays and Fridays.