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

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

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

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

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

The resemblance to the Eiffel Tower is deliberate, as is the superior height – it is 13m (43ft) ...

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 ...

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

One of the fastest lifts in the world will whisk you to the observatory on the top floor of ...

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

Upon entering, the visitor beholds a globe 6.5m (22ft) in diameter above the lobby, with ...

This tree-shaded cemetery is the final resting place of such notables as John Manjiro ...

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

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

The Shoto’s rough stone exterior gives way to curved walls encircling a central fountain. It’s ...

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

The headquarters of the Fuji TV corporation, one of Japan’s nationwide commercial channels, has ...