Tokyo 33 spots
Tokyo is Japan's capital and one of the world's largest metropolitan areas. Districts with very different characters sit within a short train ride, and zoos, aquariums and museums are all walkable from stations. It suits first-time visitors who want to build days without renting a car.
Areas in Tokyo
- Asakusa4 spotsAsakusa is the temple town of Sensoji, the oldest temple in Tokyo.
- Ueno6 spotsUeno has Japan's first zoo and a cluster of national museums inside one park.
- Sumida (Oshiage)3 spotsSumida (Oshiage) sits at the foot of Tokyo Skytree, Japan's tallest tower.
- Shinjuku3 spotsShinjuku is home to the station said to be the world's busiest.
- Ginza2 spotsGinza is Tokyo's calmer shopping district.
- Shibuya & Harajuku3 spotsShibuya-Harajuku pairs one of the world's busiest pedestrian crossings with Japan's youth-culture hub.
- Maihama1 spotMaihama is the district around the station that serves Tokyo Disney Resort (administratively it is Urayasu, Chiba).
- Odaiba1 spotOdaiba is a waterfront district built on reclaimed land in Tokyo Bay.
More lists for Tokyo
All 33 spots in this prefecture
A government-run park with over 50 facilities and about 2,000 rental bikes.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
An aquarium of over 500 species, built around a 2,200-cubic-meter doughnut tank of bluefin tuna.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
The first permanent Pokémon cafe, in a department store near Tokyo Station.
Stroller OK · checked Aug ’26
An indoor playground at Tokyo Dome City, its ball pool filled with some 40,000 balls.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building Observatories
A free observatory 202 meters above Shinjuku, on the 45th floor of Tokyo's city hall.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Shibuya Crossing is a road junction outside Shibuya Station, where over 1,000 people cross at once.
Stroller OK · checked Sep ’26
Haneda Airport SIM & Wi-Fi Rental Counters
Staffed counters for SIM cards and Wi-Fi sit in two of the three terminals.
Nursing room · Kids' toilet · checked Aug ’26
An aquarium on a rooftop in Ikebukuro, with two indoor floors and an outdoor garden.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A digital art museum in Toyosu that you enter barefoot and walk through water.
Nursing room · Changing table · Family restroom · checked Sep ’26
A high-rise hotel in the middle of Asakusa, walking distance from Sensoji.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A small amusement park, a flower garden in 1853, that calls itself Japan's oldest.
Nursing room · Changing table · Elevator · checked Aug ’26
Tokyo's oldest temple, approached through a stone-paved shopping street from the great gate.
Stroller OK · Changing table · Elevator · checked Aug ’26
Asakusa Imahan Kokusai Street Head Restaurant
A sukiyaki and shabu-shabu house in Asakusa since 1895, serving only female black wagyu.
Stroller OK · Elevator · checked Sep ’26
Japan's first zoo, with about 300 species spread over two gardens.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
National Museum of Nature and Science
A national museum shown at full size — dinosaur skeletons, a life-size blue whale.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
One of Japan's first public parks, with the zoo and museums inside its grounds.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A market street of some 400 shops packed into 500 meters between two stations.
Stroller OK · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Japan's oldest museum, six buildings on one site, showing almost only real objects.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Western food in a corner of Ueno Park, from a restaurant founded in 1872.
Nursing room · Changing table · Elevator · checked Aug ’26
Japan's first high-rise hotel, opened in 1971 and walkable from Shinjuku Station.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A toy museum inside an elementary school built nearly ninety years ago.
Nursing room · Changing table · Elevator · checked Aug ’26
Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden
A former imperial garden of 58 hectares, holding three garden styles in one plan.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A shrine wrapped in 700,000 square meters of forest, founded in 1920.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Sep ’26
A two-level observatory above Shibuya Station, finishing on an open roof 229 meters up.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Kura Sushi Global Flagship Store Harajuku
A 245-seat conveyor-belt sushi restaurant with an open-air deck over the city.
Elevator · Family restroom · checked Aug ’26
A crab restaurant by Shimbashi Station, with kaiseki courses that run to nine dishes.
Changing table · Elevator · Family restroom · checked Aug ’26
An apartment hotel whose rooms run 38 to 63 square meters, each with a kitchen.
Stroller OK · Changing table · Elevator · checked Sep ’26
Solamachi Tabe-Terrace Food Court
A food court at the foot of Skytree: udon, ramen and rice bowls at one table.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
At 634 meters, the tallest free-standing broadcast tower in the world.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
An aquarium at the foot of Tokyo Skytree, built so you get close to the animals.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Elevator · checked Aug ’26
Japan's national museum of emerging science, hands-on throughout.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Sep ’26
Seven themed lands and 37 attractions, only five of which set a minimum height.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Tokyo's closer airport, about 15 minutes by train from the terminals to Shinagawa.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
