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Viewpoint
Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building
Kenzo Tange's twin-towered city hall combines monumental late-modern architecture with free observatories overlooking the metropolis.
Church
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.
Park & garden
Imperial Palace East Gardens
Paths, walls and the foundation of the lost keep reveal the former Honmaru and Ninomaru compounds of Edo Castle.
Park & garden
Yoyogi Park
Former army parade ground, US housing «Washington Heights» and 1964 Olympic village, now Tokyo's weekend lawn for picnics, dancers and musicians.
Park & garden
Hibiya Park
Opened in 1903 as Japan's first Western-style modern urban park, Hibiya became a stage for concerts, demonstrations and mass politics.
Park & garden
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.
Church
Nezu Shrine
Its richly decorated 1706 buildings, azalea garden and tunnel of red torii offer one of Tokyo's best-preserved Edo-period shrine settings.
Church
Gotokuji Temple
Thousands of white cat figurines recall the legend of a beckoning cat that saved a feudal lord and inspired the maneki-neko tradition.
Church
Sengakuji Temple
The graves of the forty-seven ronin make this temple the central site for Japan's most famous tale of samurai loyalty and revenge.
Square
Shibuya Scramble Crossing
The world's most filmed pedestrian crossing: up to several thousand people cross in every direction at each green light.
Bridge
Nihonbashi Bridge
First built in 1603, this bridge marked the starting point of the Five Highways and remains Japan's official road-distance zero point.
Bridge
Rainbow Bridge
The illuminated suspension bridge became the defining gateway to reclaimed Odaiba and a symbol of Tokyo's late-twentieth-century bay development.
Market
Omoide Yokocho
«Memory Lane» by Shinjuku's west exit: two alleys of tiny yakitori counters left over from the post-war black market.
Market
Ameyoko Market
A post-war black market under the Yamanote tracks that became a 400-metre bazaar of fish, candy, sneakers and spices.
Street & district
Yanaka Ginza
A 170-metre shopping street of the old «shitamachi» with about 60 family shops, cat statues and the «sunset stairs» at its top.
Bridge
Azuma Bridge
A crossing has linked Asakusa with the eastern bank since the eighteenth century, and today's red bridge frames classic river and skyline views.
Waterfront
Chidorigafuchi Moat
The northwestern moat of Edo Castle becomes one of Tokyo's most celebrated scenes when cherry branches arch above its boats and stone walls.
Architecture
University of Tokyo Red Gate (Akamon)
The 1827 vermilion gate built by the Maeda lords to receive a shogun's daughter as a bride, now the symbol of Japan's top university.
Park & garden
Sanshiro Pond
This former daimyo-garden pond acquired its everyday name from Soseki's novel Sanshiro. In the book, the inexperienced student Sanshiro first encounters the mysterious Mineko here, and the fictional meeting became so famous that it displaced the pond's formal name in popular speech.
Park & garden
Inokashira Park
A pond park in Kichijoji with swan boats, a Benzaiten shrine and a legend that couples who row together break up.
Market
Harmonica Alley
These cramped covered lanes began with the informal station-front market that appeared after Japan's defeat in 1945. The tiny shops were later nicknamed for their resemblance to the closely spaced holes of a harmonica, and the surviving maze remains a remarkably intact descendant of Tokyo's postwar black-market city.
Street & district
Jimbocho Book Town
About 130 second-hand bookshops in one quarter, the largest concentration in the world, grown around the universities since the 1880s.
Curiosity
Nakano Broadway
A 1966 shopping complex that became the collectors' mecca: Mandarake floors of manga, figures, watches and vintage toys.
Waterfront
Sanya-bori Park
This long, narrow park covers the former Sanya Canal, once the elegant water route to Yoshiwara. Wealthy visitors hired fast, pointed chokibune boats and approached the quarter by water, turning the journey itself into a conspicuous part of the night’s entertainment.
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