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

One of the best museums in Tokyo is run by a department-store chain (it’s owned and operated by ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Attractions include displays on marine exploration and replicas of ancient Japanese ships.

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

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

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

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

Architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s Imperial Hotel in Tokyo was famously demolished in 1968, but few ...

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

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

This unusual venture was opened in 1953 by Kamegai Satoru, a doctor whose practice was ...

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