On arrival in Japan, most people are going to be thrown straight into the biggest city in the world, Tokyo. And, despite not being a huge city fan, Tokyo immediately became one of my favourites!
There is just something about this dynamic, engaging, mad city that hits all of your senses head-on in the best possible way. From the bright lights to the incredible food, everything about Tokyo whacks you in the face and pulls you in for more.
And being the biggest city in the world, catering to so many different interests, I recommend spending at least five days in Tokyo. Like I said in my Japan itinerary post, I think itineraries can be very personal, and that was certainly the case for Tokyo, where we wanted to indulge in niche interests. So it’s impossible, really, to put together a “perfect” itinerary for Tokyo, because everyone will want to do different things!
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However, for what I’d call the essential areas and attractions, I would definitely recommend 3 days minimum, which I’ll outline below, and then a couple more for all the other things you’d want to do. This also doesn’t include day trips, like a lot of Tokyo itineraries do! In fact, I find a lot of city itineraries generally to be very cookie-cutter – in contrast, while researching I don’t think I read a single Tokyo itinerary that was the same!
In reality, too, our Tokyo itinerary was split into two – we left for Kyoto on day 5, and returned at the end of the trip for a day and a half. Unless you’re flying out of Osaka or taking the boat to South Korea, you’ll likely be doing something similar.
So, here is EVERYTHING we got up to in Tokyo!
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Day 1 – arrival into Tokyo – Shinjuku
I highly recommend staying in Shinjuku as it’s a great base for getting absolutely everywhere in Tokyo (it does, after all, have the busiest train station in the world), and there is so much going on. It’s also got fantastic nightlife so if you’re staying nearby, you don’t need to worry about getting back at night. It makes the perfect base for your time in Tokyo.
Day 1 will depend on when you arrive – we landed at lunchtime and headed straight to Shinjuku, where we dropped our bags, freshened up, and then ran out the door in excitement. We found a quieter part of Shinjuku just to the west of the station, which still had plenty of bustling lights and restaurants. We headed up to the top of the Metropolitan Government Building for fantastic free views over Tokyo before finding somewhere for dinner. It was the perfect introduction as we weren’t thrown straight into the chaos.
Unless you’re staying right in the thick of it, I felt like this was a great way to do it as we saw a side of Shinjuku that our friend hadn’t even seen before (this was his 5th visit), and it eased us in gently. We could have gone to the main area (north-east of the station; just look for Hotel Gracery on the map and follow the lights), and if we’d got there in the morning, I probably would have done that in the evening. However, we had big plans in Shinjuku a couple of days later, so it would have to wait!
We stayed at The Knot Shinjuku, which is just across from the Metropolitan Government Building – it’s about a 15 minute walk from the station, but it’s a great area if you don’t want to be right in the middle of everything.
Day 2 – Harajuku & Shibuya
On our first full day, we planned to head down to Yoyogi Park to visit the Meiji Jingu shrine, spend the rest of the morning and lunch in Harajuku, and then walk down to Shibuya for the rest of the day.
Unfortunately, we woke up to rain, which turned out to be relentless for the entire day!
However, it didn’t stop us. We were WAY too excited to care!
We hopped on the train and rode two stops to Harajuku, but before hitting the main area of Harajuku, we crossed over into Yoyogi Park and went to the Meiji Jingu shrine. The walk to the shrine is incredibly peaceful and you wouldn’t know you were in the middle of a massive city! Just outside the shrine is a huge wall of sake barrels, which makes for great photos.
And then it was time to hit Takeshita Street. This is somewhere that I’ve ALWAYS wanted to go, for as long as I’ve wanted to visit Japan. It’s always been a mecca for crazy cyberpunk-style outfits, mad shops, colourful food and basically everything you can think of when you think of bonkers Japan.
Unfortunately it’s changed over the years and no longer attracts the same level of quirky clientele – much like Camden in London no longer really being punk. There are dog cafés and all manner of animal cafés; we even saw a man with an otter advertising an otter café (I have… opinions on these types of places, particularly in Japan – though I was seriously tempted by the capybara café). Sadly the absolutely insane Kawaii Monster Cafe has shut down.
However it’s still a cool place to visit – we saw a couple of punky shops clinging on the bastion of Harajuku, we managed to pick up some great souvenirs, and I had a rainbow grilled cheese from Le Shiner for lunch! I also got a giant candy floss bigger than my head from Totti Candy Factory, which I will admit was probably not the best idea in the rain (have you ever tried holding an umbrella in one hand and a giant candy floss in the other?), but who cares – it was worth it!
The one problem was the rain – the umbrellas were making everything more stressful and difficult on a relatively narrow street, and we were having to find acceptable places to hide to eat food (walking while eating in Japan is a MASSIVE faux pas). It meant I didn’t want to explore more of the area, like finding the hip Desolation Row or everything else outside of Takeshita Street. And it certainly didn’t make our 20 minute walk to Shibuya all that pleasant.
On the walk, we popped into Tokyu Plaza shopping centre in Omotesando, purely for the view of the entrance! Though it also ended up being a great pit stop for the toilet. Finally, we made it to Shibuya.
So, Shibuya Crossing.
Crazy at normal times, being the busiest street crossing in the world. In the rain, with a million umbrellas? I don’t think I’ve ever been so stressed crossing a road – and I’ve been to Vietnam!!! It was impossible to get good photos, and sadly Starbucks had closed down, which has always been the best place to get that iconic photo from above. And guess what? It re-opened two weeks after we were there! So yes, you CAN still get the iconic photo, without having to pay for the Magnet 109 terrace. It’s just that we missed out, of course.
We also had to stop by the Hachiko statue outside the station. Hachiko the dog has a very similar story to Greyfriars Bobby in Edinburgh – he used to meet his owner at Shibuya station every day until the owner suddenly died. Hachiko continued to show up every day for years hoping for his return – what a wee legend.
We spent the rest of the day in Shibuya, which mostly involved shopping and food. We checked out our first Nintendo store and Pokemon store, and we popped into Loft to get wee notepads for stamping at train stations. We also went to Tower Records, which had been on my list since I was a teenager!
We were booked to go up Shibuya Sky in the evening, but because of the weather, the rooftop observation deck was shut! We were offered an opportunity to rebook, but there was no availability until 10 days later. In hindsight, maybe we should have done that, as we were actually back in Tokyo then. But we were also here now, and we’d got great photos from the Met Gov building through the glass. Unfortunately, most of the inside of Shibuya Sky is full of lights, so reflections were awful, but I did manage to get a few shots.
I can’t really do a full comparison between the two observation decks seeing as we didn’t get the full experience, but usually you’d be outside in Shibuya Sky, which probably gives it the edge over the glass view at the Met Gov.
Day 3 – Senso-Ji Temple, Akihabara, night out in Shinjuku
Thankfully, day 3 was a lot sunnier, and we were up bright and early to go and check out Senso-Ji temple.
This is a highlight of Tokyo, with crowds to match, so I recommend getting there early! In fact, it was the first place on the trip that I really felt like we were in a touristy location, and by far the busiest place we experienced in Tokyo.
We got fortunes from the shrine, and mine was AWFUL. It said many accidents will happen, my wishes won’t come true, a sick person won’t recover, I should definitely stop building a house (?!) and my marriage, trip, and employment will all be bad. If you get one like this, you tie them to the rack next to the fortunes to leave the bad luck behind. Phew!
(What was hilarious was my friend got a good fortune which told her everything will be amazing and she would have good luck in marriage – at this, she wink wink nudge nudged her boyfriend. If you’ve read my other posts, you’ll know he proposed at the end of the trip! It was SO HARD to keep a straight face at that point HAHA!)
We also popped over to Skytree briefly, as it’s only two stops away and the shopping centre there has the best Donguri Republic store for Studio Ghibli merch in Japan. They have a giant Totoro and Catbus that you can take photos with!!! I was in my element. There’s also a small Pokemon store where you can pick up an exclusive Skytree Pikachu.
From there, we made a beeline for nearby Akihabara for the afternoon, where we had booked a Final Fantasy themed café for Ash’s birthday!
We were really impressed with this place, from the theming to the food itself. I had a chocobo bao bun. A chocobao? Honestly, so cool! The drinks were all based on spells and characters too.
We did NOT make it to the Pokemon café – it’s almost impossible to get a reservation as it sells out the second bookings go up, and we weren’t bothered enough to stress about it. There are absolutely tons of themed cafés all over Tokyo, including Kirby, Pompompurin, Sanrio (Hello Kitty etc) and more.
Known as “Electric Town”, Akihabara is traditionally known as the place to go – in the WORLD – for electronics, but while a lot of the older, original markets have closed down, it’s now a haven for gamers and anime-lovers.
It’s also full of maid cafés. Like, I’d read about maid cafés but I don’t think I was prepared for the volume of them, nor the girls advertising each establishment outside every second building. It got to the point where we were almost tempted.
Instead, we explored a couple of the famous arcade shops, which became quite a theme of the trip as they are in fact all over the place in Japan. From claw machines to video games, there is an overwhelming amount to do, and if it’s something you’re into, you could literally spend all day – or more – in this area!
There are also gachapon machines, with tiny toys in capsules, if you want something guaranteed and also quintessentially Japanese. You have to get at least one!
Even if you’re not massively nerdy (to be honest I am not as much as Ash and our friends!), I recommend Akihabara anyway as it’s such a big part of Japanese culture. You just might not want as much time there as us. Unfortunately we didn’t have a lot of time on our first visit, because we had a food & drink tour lined up back in Shinjuku – which was fine as we were planning to come back to Akihabara at the end of the trip.
Our friend had done a nightlife tour in Tokyo before hosted by Yoshi, and as soon as he found out we’d be celebrating Ash’s birthday on the trip, he suggested booking it. And we had one of the most fun nights of the whole trip!
The tour took us to one of the izakayas on Memory Lane (aka Piss Alley) for food, followed by another larger place around the corner which only had locals in. We tried sting ray fin and an assortment of more normal foods, as well as being shown local customs, and we met a really lovely local guy in the second place. I cannot remember which izakaya we went into, and in fact we tried to go back on our last night and ended up in the wrong one by mistake! You can’t go too wrong anyway, as food in Japan is generally excellent.
The izakayas are really tiny, and I highly recommend going to Memory Lane as it’s full of great places to eat. Not to disparage travelling with our friends, but because of the tiny sizes of some of the restaurants, we found a couple of times it was harder to get into places as a group of four. Most places on Memory Lane seem to have an upstairs room with more space (or at least both places we went to did), but it’s not such a great atmosphere as having everything cooked in front of you in a tiny space.
We ended the night in the Golden Gai, an area packed with equally miniscule bars, often only seating up to ten people. It’s worth noting that not all of these are tourist-friendly, but there are SO many to choose from! We went to Bar Lonely with the tour, which we managed to squeeze through to get upstairs.
We were asked if anyone was brave enough to try the sweet potato shochu which was described as “interesting”, and naturally I immediately raised my hand! “How was it?” the tour guide asked afterwards. “…interesting!” I said, and everyone laughed.
This is where the tour ended, but it was NOT where our night ended! We went to Cambiare, where we befriended a whole bunch of Americans and Ash struggled to get down the stairs, and finally, after a few attempts, made it into Deathmatch In Hell, a metal bar that I’d had on my list. It was SUCH a cool bar. Albatross G also looks great.
10/10, would go back to Golden Gai for a night out in Tokyo.
Day 4 – TeamLab Borderless & Ghibli Museum
Much of our Tokyo itinerary was based on one thing: the Studio Ghibli museum. It is notoriously hard to get tickets, so we tried for a couple of different days. We originally tried for Ash’s birthday, but by the time we had gone from the calendar screen to the payment screen, it had completely sold out! Luckily, we managed to get them for the next day, albeit at 4pm.
Timings secured, we did TeamLab Borderless on the the same day so that we had our structured, booked activities all in one day.
Borderless moved to a new location earlier this year, Azabudai Hills, and in some ways it’s now easier to get to, but there’s much less of interest to us in the new area. Where before we had planned to do a couple of other things around there, now there’s just a fancy shopping centre. It’s quite close to the Tokyo Tower though, if you fancy seeing that up close!
I got tickets for Borderless at 11am, which is the earliest I could get. 10am slots sell out VERY quickly!
We didn’t go to TeamLab Planets, but it looks a lot more immersive in that there are rooms where you have to walk through water. It does look cool, but personally I much prefer the look of Borderless. The themed rooms are incredible, and it’s apparently much bigger than Planets. We spent just over two hours in there, including drinking tea in their “teahouse”.
I’ve written a full post about Borderless, partly because there’s not a lot out there about their new location and rooms, plus I have sooo many more photos to share!
Read more: A Photo Guide To TeamLab Borderless: Is This Tokyo Attraction Worth Visiting In 2024?
We decided to have lunch in the area before moving on to Mitaka. We found a real local ramen place near the station which was excellent!
Because we weren’t sure how much time we’d spend in Borderless, we wound up with some extra time in Mitaka/Kichijoji, so we took a wander and loved how different the area feels to other parts of Tokyo. We made a beeline for Shiro-Hige’s Cream Puff Factory, a bakery that has Totoro cream puffs! As expected, they had sold out by the time we got there, but I did get some packs of Totoro cookies instead! I also wanted to check out Kichijoji Petit Mura, a very Ghibli-esque style complex which has shops and cafés inside. It was really cute although to be honest I was a bit underwhelmed by it.
It’s around a 20 minute walk from Kichijoji station to the Studio Ghibli Museum, which is set in a park about equidistant from both Kichijoji and Mitaka stations. Everyone had started an unofficial queue along the wall outside the entrance – unsurprisingly, it was already busy when we got there!
We had two hours in the Ghibli Museum, which I was honestly worried wouldn’t be enough. However we managed to see everything and even had plenty of time in the shop – although we were one of the last people to leave! Again, I have written a full post about the museum, because a) I have loads of tips and info which is too much for this post, and b) you might not care about Studio Ghibli anyway, so I’ll save the nerdiness for a dedicated post which you don’t have to read! 😉
After the museum, we continued our Ghibli trail by heading to Corn Barley for dinner, a restaurant just around the corner from Kichijoji station. We ate a lot of brilliant meals throughout our time in Japan, but I have to say this was actually one of my favourites! The theming was PERFECT. The service was excellent. We sat at a table themed on Kiki’s Delivery Service (one of my favourite Ghibli films!) and they even gave us little Jiji headbands to wear!
Read more: Visiting the Studio Ghibli Museum in Tokyo + Tips For Buying Tickets
Day 5 – whatever you like!
There are SO many things you could do in Tokyo, and every single itinerary I’ve read has had something different on it.
Maybe Disneyland is on your list (Tokyo Disneyland is meant to be incredible – and it was actually on my list but in the end we prioritised Universal in Osaka), or you want to use the time for a day trip to somewhere like Nikko or Hakone or Yokohama, or Mount Fuji which is easy to do in a day from Tokyo. If you go to Yokohama, there’s the Cup Noodle Museum where you can make your own cup noodles! This was on our list, but we simply ran out of time.
If you like shopping, Ginza is meant to be the place to head. For us, that type of shopping doesn’t appeal at all – however, Japan is one of the few places where I’ve really wanted to buy so much stuff! Funny flavoured KitKats (my favourite is melon!), silly stationery, beautiful stationery for that matter, Pokemon plushies, chopsticks, funky Japanese homeware. So we had to make sure to dedicate some time to places like the Pokemon and Nintendo stores, shops of particular interest like Tower Records, and the best place for Japanese goods is the megalith that is Don Quijote. There’s a huge one in Osaka which we mostly went into for inspiration, and then went into the Shibuya megastore to stock up.
On our final full day, our main aim was to head back to Akihabara as we hadn’t had much time there on our first visit. As well as going into a few more arcades, this time we also went into Mandarake, an 8-floor manga store that also specialises in collectibles, and Super Potato, a retro gaming store. Akihabara is also known for its more seedy shops too (our friends found the infamous used knickers vending machine!!!!), if you want an eye-opening shopping experience!
However, there is just so much to do in Tokyo that we had a couple more things on the list beforehand! So first up, Ash and I went to Gotokuji to check out the lucky cat shrine. This was brilliant and well worth going, however the cat is out of the bag, as you might say, because this is no longer a “hidden gem” and was pretty busy. We once again found ourselves asking what it would have been like coming here a few years ago, before social media got its hands on everything.
Side note: I actually cannot believe I missed this but just round the corner from Gotokuji is the original Shiro-Hige bakery with the Totoro cream puffs!! We could have absolutely gone there and picked some up. I am so annoyed that I didn’t register that we were in the vicinity.
We had to change at Shibuya on the way back, so we popped our heads out there for one last look around. We went into Pepper Parlor, a café that I really wanted to visit – the servers are all ROBOTS! And they actually have conversations with you! Unfortunately, it was fully booked for the day, so we left mildly disappointed – but genuinely, even just being there, it was SO much fun to see all the robots chatting away to people! I loved it.
So I definitely recommend making a reservation – the main reason we didn’t was because we didn’t want to get tied down to timings during the day.
(I found out about Pepper Parlor on Jane McDonald’s TV show in Japan – watch the clip here!)
The other main thing I wanted to do was check out some cherry blossoms around Tokyo, as they were FINALLY out in full bloom! There were three main places on my list for cherry blossoms:
- Sakuragaoka Street in Shibuya is an amazing street right off the main strip. Worth noting that we visited on Sunday evening and it was PACKED. Went back the next day, late morning, and it was not. So weekdays win here!
- Ueno Park is one of the best places in the city to see cherry blossoms. We headed here “on the way” to Akihabara (it’s actually a couple of stops past it). With its famous avenue of cherry blossom trees, as you can imagine, this also means it’s BUSY.
- I also had Chidorigafuchi Park on my list, but it was a little further out of the way of our plans. If the sakura had been out during our first week, I would have made time to go there, too.
Where we stayed in Tokyo
Believe it or not, we stayed in three different places in Tokyo!
The Knot. Our first four nights were at The Knot Shinjuku, which was not only a fantastic hotel, but there was also a bakery downstairs, so my regular Tokyo breakfast became melon pan. Yum!
Book & Bed. We just stayed one night at Book & Bed when we arrived back in Tokyo. It’s not often a hostel makes it onto my must-do list (even though I love hostels), but this one is so unique. We LOVED the set up, and the location is unbeatable, right in the heart of Shinjuku. We didn’t love the background music staying on until 1am.
Henn Na Hotel Maihama Bay. One of my favourite nights of the trip was the night we spent in the Henn Na hotel with robot dinosaur receptionists!! We saved this for our last night, partly because the location isn’t good for exploring the rest of Tokyo – it’s out near Disney, so perfect if you’re going there.
One good thing is that they run shuttle buses down to the train station, which is just outside the Disney parks. This meant we could get a bus in the morning, get straight on the train, and head to the airport. Which was lucky because it was raining, and honestly that made it a lot less hard to say goodbye to Japan, as I was dreading leaving.
We definitely went out on a high, as this hotel was such a highlight!
Massive tip: GET A SUICA CARD! There’s been an issue with the production of these but you can still get a Welcome Suica card in advance and pick it up at the airport when you arrive. These bad boys can be used for absolutely loads of things – mostly the metro and subway, in every city we went to, and also some convenience stores! We pretty much just used ours for public transport, all over Japan.
As an aside, I think I’d recommend flying into Haneda if you can. I felt like Narita would be the better, more major airport, but to be honest it’s definitely more of a pain for getting in and out of Tokyo – around an hour and a half instead of 50 minutes. Which means flying into Haneda equals more time in Tokyo!
Another thing to mention is luggage – you can use luggage services to move your bags from one hotel to another, which can be really useful if you’re going from Tokyo to Kyoto, for example. We looked at doing this for Shinjuku to the dino hotel, but it was really expensive just for doing that, so instead we took them to Akihabara and put them in lockers for the day. Lockers are abundant at most train stations in Japan.
One thing I haven’t even mentioned at all? The convenience stores! Known as conbinis, these are absolutely everywhere. Family Mart, 7/11 and Lawson are on almost every corner, and they are fantastic. We popped into them a lot to grab snacks and often breakfast as well. (For the record, Family Mart was our firm favourite!)
Quite frankly, there is so much to do in Tokyo that it would take a lifetime to do it all. But five days is a good start, and I’m happy with everything we managed to do there (except Pepper Parlor – and there’s also a restaurant called Gonpachi which is where they filmed Kill Bill and it looks AMAZING). I’m sure I could spend years adding more things to my list.
Tokyo, naturally, is an incredibly busy city, but we didn’t find it overwhelming at all. We called it “organised chaos” because even when it felt like you were about to be swept off your feet, you simply fed into a flow of people, and it worked. People form very orderly queues for trains in designated spots that the train always magically lines up with. I think the difference was made stark when we moved on to Kyoto, which was the very definition of actual chaos with the tourist crowds – it was actually a relief to get back to Tokyo where everything was in order!
Tokyo definitely lived up to all expectations, and I loved every minute of the time we had there. And, for us, our five day itinerary couldn’t have worked out more perfectly.
I have – slowly – been working through a LOT of Japan content! Check it out below:
⭐ My Top 10 Highlights Of Our Trip To Japan
⭐ Our Perfect Two Week Itinerary For A First Time Visit To Japan
⭐ A Photo Guide To TeamLab Borderless: Is This Tokyo Attraction Worth Visiting In 2024?
⭐ Visiting the Studio Ghibli Museum in Tokyo + Tips For Buying Tickets
⭐ Shrines, Temples & Geisha: How To Spend Two Days In Magical Kyoto, Japan
⭐ A Love Letter To Osaka, Japan: Why It’s Worth More Than A Day Trip
⭐ Making The Most Of Universal Studios & Super Nintendo World In Japan
⭐ Hanging Out With The Polite Deer In Nara, Japan
⭐ An Overnight Trip To Hiroshima, Miyajima & Himeji From Osaka
⭐ A Semi-Helpful Guide To Mount Fuji & How To Visit From Osaka
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I spent maybe two nights in Tokyo (as part of a bigger trip in Japan, to Kyoto and Osaka), and that was not enough time. Even five nights isn’t enough to see it all! Thanks for sharing your itinerary for Tokyo, Clazz!
Oh yeah, I think you need 3 days minimum to see the essential sights! But you’re not alone, I’ve seen others only spend that much time there. It’s such a massive city, but it does depend what you want to do as well!
“have you ever tried holding an umbrella in one hand and a giant candy floss in the other?” – my mental image of this is pretty amusing, to be honest 😂
Planning this trip must have been just… overwhelming. Even just reading an organized itinerary like this, I’m overwhelmed. I’m 100% certain I’m just not even able to comprehend the size and diversity of what Tokyo has to offer. There’s so much here! I can’t believe it all fit into only 5 days.
I think my friend got an awful photo of me trying to eat it! I tried to get a photo myself and I was all fingers and thumbs hahaha, it was not my finest moment.
To be honest I think we’ve wanted to go for so long that we had a pretty good idea of what we wanted to do, but the extra four years of planning probably helped… plus our friend’s boyfriend ended up coming with us (they didn’t even know each other when we were originally going!) and it was his fifth visit and that also helped us to make an actual realistic plan!
This is a great resource. I’ll keep it for a future trip. 😊
Ahh thanks Maggie! That’s very kind of you.
Great view and great tip about the free look from up there! Yes, eating (or drinking) while walking is frowned upon. So is sitting on the sidewalk or pavement. Or talking on the phone in public!
Haha, yes! So many rules. Most of them made for a very civilised society. I didn’t actually know about sitting on the pavement, but we didn’t even think of doing that haha.
I get not wanting to be tied to a bunch reservations on a trip. We’re using the Go City Sydney card and it’s quite different from most city cards I’m used to. You have to make a pre-booked reservation for nearly everything they offer. Super annoying. I mean, I’m excited to see and do all the things we’re going to see and do, but having to be at Place X and Time Y means it will be more stressful than if we just showed up and waited in line. Also, I had to laugh at your bad fortunes in light of the ones I just got. I never eat the fortune cookies that come with takeout because I bring them to school and give them to my students. The other day, though, I ate 2 because school’s out for summer. The first one said, “A big fortune will descend upon you this year.” And so did the second one!! I’m glad you said Tokyo’s not as overwhelming as it seems, because it does look overwhelming!
Ohh really? That’s a pain. Yeah, I tend to be organised in the fact I like to know what we are doing each day, but not to the point that I know what we’ll be doing at every minute of that day. It makes you so aware of how much time you’re spending doing anything. I think there are only two things I regret not booking (another was a tour with an amazing guide in Kyoto – it sold out when we finally decided to do it!!).
Hahaha, fortune cookies have some bizarre ones! Hopefully that means you’ll get double the fortune. 😉
If you find us in Edinburgh sometime soon, you’ll know we were able to retire early and travel the world. 😉 $$$$$
It’s nice that Tokyo is so full of niche interest places that everyone and anyone can fill up their itinerary with what is personal to them. This is a great guide and does help make this dynamic city seem far more easy to approach as a place to go 🙂
I think it’s most of the reason Tokyo appealed to me so much. It’s totally different to anywhere else I want to visit, and for very different reasons. I mean I’ve always been fascinated by Japanese culture and history, which is often the influence of my travels, but I love how futuristic and bonkers Tokyo has always seemed! And there is just so much that has come out of Japan which I love, and Tokyo caters to things like that so well.
Looks amazing, it feels like the kind of city you could spend weeks in and still barely scratch the surface. It’s actually a city of mini-cities with the number of districts. Love your night shots out across the bright lights.
oh that cafe with robots! I didnt know about it! And you made it to the Cat Temple, I wanted to get there but just ran out of time. But on the other hand a lot of familiar places such as Totti Candy Factory and I’m guessing Le Shiner for the rainbow cheese sandwich! Such a brilliant city!