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

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

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

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 ...

Part of the huge Palette Town development that opened in 1999, Mega Web certainly lives up to ...

This majestic, temple-like building is one of the most attractive sento in Tokyo. Cleaner than ...

This museum is currently closed for renovation, and will open again in November 2015.Run by the ...

This museum takes to extremes the maxim ‘learning by doing’. The unique five-spoke building, in ...

Built in 1896 for Iwasaki Hisaya, son of the founder of the Mitsubishi conglomerate, this ...

Daimyo feudal lords were the only people who could afford the clocks displayed here. Before ...

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

With a clay drum from Mexico, an udekki from Sri Lanka and hundreds of other drums from around ...

A primeval forest in central Tokyo? Yes, it’s a remnant of the ancient Musashino plain. ...

Sadly, you won’t be able to witness much wailing and gnashing of teeth here, since the TSE, ...

This medium-sized Kunsthalle in the woods of Ueno Park holds the annual VOCA exhibition of ...

The absence of anything relating to modern crime-fighting might alarm more than reassure ...

This uplifting museum is a cornucopia of kites, including Indonesian dried leaves, giant ...

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