The Meguro River, particularly the stretches of it intersected by Nakameguro Station, is one of the most popular cherry blossom viewing areas in Tokyo each year. While the river itself isn’t particularly beautiful, with the water metres down in a concrete canal that resembles a stormwater drain, it’s the heavy plantings of cherry trees either…
Category: Landmarks
Takeshita Street
Takeshita Street in Harajuku is one of the most visited tourist sites in Tokyo. Famous as the birthplace of ‘kawaii’(cute) youth culture in Japan, it’s a narrow shopping street running downhill from Harajuku Station. Its short length is filled with shops and cafes selling ‘cute’ fashion and accessories, idol merchandise and novelty foods. While spotting…
Hachiko Statue
The Hachiko Statue is a wonderful example of Japan’s ability to turn a small story into a larger national symbol of honourable traits. There’s the Hiroshima girl who folded a thousand cranes to cure her illness caused by the atomic bomb. Her story and the cranes she made have become enduring symbols of hope among…
Shibuya Crossing
Shibuya Crossing, one of Tokyo’s most famous landmarks, is also one of it’s most unlikely. After all it’s only a pedestrian crossing. Yet the multi-direction scramble intersection has become iconic as a well-known Tokyo symbol. It is also one of the busiest pedestrian thoroughfares in the world. Tourists visit day and night to see the…
Meiji Shrine
Meiji Shrine is one of Tokyo’s most famous historical attractions. Located amid tranquil greenery a reasonably short walk from Harajuku Station, it’s a must see on any first time visit to Tokyo. Compared to other religious landmarks in Tokyo, the shrine, aligned to the Shinto religion, is relatively new. It opened in 1920 in honour…
Sensoji Temple
If you’re looking for the biggest and best historical landmark in Tokyo, look no further than Sensoji Temple. A Buddhist landmark in Asakusa, Tokyo’s old entertainment district, Sensoji Temple is the world’s most visited spiritual site annually. The temple is also known as Asakusa Kannon Temple and Senso-Ji. The complex, which dates back to 645AD,…