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

Toshogu is dedicated to the first Tokugawa shogun, Ieyasu, and its style is similar to the ...

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

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

Opened in 1920, the shrine is dedicated to Emperor Meiji – whose reign (1868-1912) coincided ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A soak in the heart of Omotesando. Stash your shopping and unwind with a bath.

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

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

Few homes of early foreign Tokyo residents have escaped the ravages of time. This one, built in ...

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