Tokio
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Kirche
Senso-ji Temple
Tokyo’s oldest temple, founded on a legend of two fishermen who netted a statue of Kannon in the Sumida in 628; rebuilt in concrete after 1945.
Architektur
Kaminarimon Gate
The Thunder Gate, guarded by the gods of wind and thunder and hung with a giant lantern, is Asakusa's unmistakable entrance.
Platz
Shibuya Scramble Crossing
The world's most filmed pedestrian crossing: up to several thousand people cross in every direction at each green light.
Park & Garten
Imperial Palace East Gardens
Paths, walls and the foundation of the lost keep reveal the former Honmaru and Ninomaru compounds of Edo Castle.
Markt
Tsukiji Outer Market
Although the wholesale fish market moved to Toyosu in 2018, these crowded lanes preserve the food culture of Tokyo's former kitchen.
Park & Garten
Ueno Park
The former grounds of the powerful Kaneiji temple became a battlefield in 1868 and later Tokyo's great museum and cherry-blossom park.
Museum
Tokyo National Museum
Japan's oldest and largest museum (1872): samurai swords, Buddhist sculpture, kimono and the Horyu-ji treasures.
Aussicht
Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building
Kenzo Tange's twin-towered city hall combines monumental late-modern architecture with free observatories overlooking the metropolis.
Straßen & Viertel
Akihabara Electric Town
From a post-war radio-parts black market to the world capital of electronics, anime, manga and maid cafés.
Park & Garten
Hamarikyu Gardens
This former shogunal duck-hunting ground contains Tokyo's last surviving seawater tidal pond and frames old Edo landscaping against skyscrapers.
Straßen & Viertel
Shinjuku Golden Gai
This maze of tiny two-story bars began with postwar black-market traders and later became an unlicensed red-light district. After prostitution was outlawed in 1958, its cramped rooms became refuges for writers, filmmakers and theater people; regulars Kenji Nakagami and Ryuzo Saki won the Akutagawa and Naoki prizes simultaneously in 1976, sealing the district's bohemian reputation.
Kirche
Zojoji Temple
The Tokugawa family's principal funerary temple tells the story of shogunal power beneath the modern silhouette of Tokyo Tower.
Straßen & Viertel
Nakamise-dori
The 250-metre approach from Kaminarimon to Senso-ji, lined with about 90 stalls, one of Japan's oldest shopping streets.
