Tokyo is one of the busiest cities in the world, its streets seem filled every minute of the day or night. No visit to Japan should go without a visit to Tokyo. Tokyo has everything to offer the tourist from quirky suburbs selling nothing but the lastest gadgets to historic temples full of culture.
Tokyo is Japan’s capital city and a huge metropolis, there are approximately 35 million people living in the greater Tokyo area.
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Akihabara Electric Town is a Tokyo suburb with is streets lined with shops that are dedicated to all the latest modern gadgets, music and anime and manga comics. Sometimes called Akiba, this suburb is an amazing place to walk around and check out the sights.
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Asakusa is an historic temple town which dates back over 1000 years, today it is one Japan’s few traditional quarters and is a very popular tourist destination.
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Ginza is everything elegant and stylish, its the place for sophisticated Tokyoites. This retro modern precinct is home to the world’s leading brands. Cartier, Sony, Tiffany, Versace, Amardi, Cucci..the list goes on and on..
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Ikebukuro is home to many of Japan’s large department stores and is also home to a large shopping centre known as Sunshine City that houses a planetarium, observatory, aquarium, indoor theme park and an ancient orient museum. Across the road from Sunshine City is Toyota Amulux.
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Marunouchi is the main commercial district boarded by the Tokyo station, Imperial Palace and the Tokyo International Forum to the south in Yurakucho. The Marunouchi area is also home to Imperial Theatre and the Tokyo Post Office.
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Odaiba is a large man made island in Tokyo Bay, Originally constructed during the Edo period as a fortress, the once derelict site has been under rewwwment since the mid 1980s.
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Roppongi is best known for its nightlife and as a hangout for western tourists and expatriates as most of the restaurants and nightclubs cater for English speaking tourists and residents.
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Once the location of the Tokyo Olympics, Shibuya is commercial and entertainment district in Tokyo and as such it is popular amongst the Japanese youth crowd. The Shibuya streets, notably Takeshita st and Center Gai, are filled with plenty of fashion shops and bars.
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Shinjuku is a large business, entertainment and shopping district and is home to most of Tokyo’s Skyscrapers, with so many people working or visiting the area each day its not hard to realize that the Shinjuku Station handles around 2 million people every day.
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Shiodome is a new suburb right in the centre of Tokyo bordering the Ginza district. Once the site of a rail yard this area has undergone a transformation in recent years and is now home to skyscrapers and the offices of some of Japans biggest companies.
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The Tokyo Disney Resort comprises of two theme parks Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea as well as 7 large hotels. Disneyland is styled after Disney’s classic Disneyland in California and first opened in 1983 making Tokyo Disneyland the first Disney park outside the USA.
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Ueno is Tokyo’s cultural capital, it is home to the National Museum of Western Art, the National Science Museum, the Tokyo National Museum, the National Museum of Western Art and the Ueno Zoo.
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While you could spend weeks in Central Tokyo and not see everything, there is also plenty to so see only a short train ride out of the city.
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Public transport is the best way to get around Tokyo as the city has the worlds largest rail network. The city’s rail networks are super reliable and efficient that makes it one of the most used systems in the world.
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Tokyo has two major airports, Handea which handles mainly domestic traffic and Narita which is the major international airport. Rather confusingly Handea is often called Tokyo International Airport as this was the international airport prior to Narita opening. Narita handles about 20 million passengers a year and 2 million tons of cargo, it is one of the worlds great airport hubs.
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Haneda is called the Tokyo International Airport but it really is the domestic airport with most of the flights coming into Japan from overseas using Narita International Airport which is about 90km to the north east of the city.
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In this shop in Tokyo’s Odaiba you can pay to spend some time in a room full of cats.