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At this museum inside Ueno Park, the exhibits of fossils, specimens and asteroids are now ...

Kanda Yabu Soba has spawned numerous shops run by former apprentices. This one, open only for ...

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

Regarded as one of Japan’s great modern painters, Yokoyama Taikan was born at the beginning of ...

The core collection housed in this 1959 Le Corbusier-designed building, Japan’s only national ...

In a backstreet on the northern side of Ueno Park, Katsutaro is a small, friendly ryokan with ...

This mainly Japanese-style ryokan, not far from Ueno Park, offers a good standard of ...

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

This smart, modern ryokan is wonderfully situated five minutes’ walk from Asakusa’s temple. ...

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

A modern, business-style hotel barely a wrestler’s stride from the sumo stadium in Ryogoku – a ...

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

Hanayashiki has been in business since 1883 and still draws crowds. There are around 20 rides, ...

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

Barely 30 seconds from Asakusa’s market and temple complex, yet surprisingly peaceful, the ...

A basic business hotel in Ueno, the Tsukuba is clean and good value for money. Rooms are tiny, ...