When Emperor Meiji died, on 13 September 1912, General Nogi Maresuke and his wife proved their ...

Exhibits range from flints and a tablet from Mesopotamia through Egyptian papyrus to abacuses ...

Japanese and foreign films – 19,000 of them – star at the country’s only national facility ...

Currently closed for renovation, scheduled to re-open in December 2015.This museum is run by ...

Idemitsu Sazo, founder of Idemitsu Kosan Co, collected traditional Chinese and Japanese art for ...

One of the many faded relics that crowd around Asakusa’s famous Sensoji, this bathhouse offers ...

Following the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, some 40,000 people who had fled their homes ...

A few doors from Kyubei – one of Tokyo’s most famous (and famously expensive) sushi restaurants ...

The Bank of Japan has two buildings, descriptively named Old and New. The New Building is where ...

Kume Kuchiro was one of the first Japanese artists to embrace the Impressionist style. This ...

A recently renovated, traditional sento with a number of novelty tubs, including one that ...

A modern sento with a variety of baths, including a rotenburo and sauna. Usefully, it stocks ...

This wooded hilltop park was once the estate of Eiichi Shibusawa (1840-1931), president of ...

Currently closed for renovation, scheduled to re-open in 2019.This two-storey Chinese-style ...

This earthquake-prone city is long overdue for a devastating trembler, so the Tokyo Fire ...

This museum was founded by Soetsu Yanagi in 1936 and has a wide variety of mingei (folk crafts) ...

This museum channels a fundamental ingredient of life, water, into exciting displays and ...

A reconstruction of the Shinbashi passenger terminus, part of the first railway in Japan, which ...

Koishikawa Korakuen was first laid out in 1629. It’s now only a quarter of its original size, ...