Things to do in Tokyo with kids 35 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.
Japan's first zoo, with about 300 species spread over two gardens.
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National Museum of Nature and Science
A national museum shown at full size — dinosaur skeletons, a life-size blue whale.
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One of Japan's first public parks, with the zoo and museums inside its grounds.
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A small amusement park, a flower garden in 1853, that calls itself Japan's oldest.
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A toy museum inside an elementary school built nearly ninety years ago.
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Tokyo's oldest temple, approached through a stone-paved shopping street from the great gate.
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At 634 meters, the tallest free-standing broadcast tower in the world.
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A shrine wrapped in 700,000 square meters of forest, founded in 1920.
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Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden
A former imperial garden of 58 hectares, holding three garden styles in one plan.
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An aquarium at the foot of Tokyo Skytree, built so you get close to the animals.
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A two-level observatory above Shibuya Station, finishing on an open roof 229 meters up.
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Seven themed lands and 37 attractions, only five of which set a minimum height.
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Japan's oldest museum, six buildings on one site, showing almost only real objects.
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A government-run park with over 50 facilities and about 2,000 rental bikes.
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An aquarium of over 500 species, built around a 2,200-cubic-meter doughnut tank of bluefin tuna.
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An indoor playground at Tokyo Dome City, its ball pool filled with some 40,000 balls.
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Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building Observatories
A free observatory 202 meters above Shinjuku, on the 45th floor of Tokyo's city hall.
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Shibuya Crossing is a road junction outside Shibuya Station, where over 1,000 people cross at once.
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An aquarium on a rooftop in Ikebukuro, with two indoor floors and an outdoor garden.
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A digital art museum in Toyosu that you enter barefoot and walk through water.
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Tokyo Tower is a 333-meter landmark in central Tokyo, with its main deck at 150 meters.
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Kabuki-za, in Tokyo's Ginza, calls itself the world's only theater dedicated to kabuki drama.
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Tokyo DisneySea is a Disney theme park in Urayasu, Chiba, made up of eight themed "ports."
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Toyosu Market is Tokyo's wholesale market for fish and produce, toured from corridors above.
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Roppongi Hills is a complex in Tokyo's Roppongi district with over 200 shops and restaurants.
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Kiyosumi-Shirakawa is a flat, quiet Tokyo neighborhood of art, coffee and old temples.
A hilltop shrine in central Tokyo, with escalators beside its steps.
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The National Art Center, Tokyo
A national art museum in Roppongi, Tokyo, that owns no collection and hosts changing exhibitions.
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Koenji is a Tokyo neighborhood of 13 shopping streets, a few stops from Shinjuku.
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Aogashima is a small volcano island with a rare double caldera.
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A park along a valley about 1 km long, the only valley in Tokyo's 23 wards.
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Golden Gai is a Shinjuku drinking district of tiny bars packed into low wooden row houses.
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Rainbow Bridge, opened in 1993, has a free walkway linking the Shibaura and Odaiba districts.
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Zojoji is a Buddhist temple founded in 1393, with one of the Tokyo area's largest halls.
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A former Tokyo family estate whose 1896 Western-style house was designed by Josiah Conder.
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