Opening hours, prices and tickets for places worth your time.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building in Shinjuku is the seat of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, designed by Kenzo Tange and completed in 1990. Its 243-metre main tower divides into two at the 33rd floor; each half has an observation room on the 45th floor, 202 metres up, with views across the city and, on clear days, to Mount Fuji.
MAGNET by SHIBUYA109 is a shopping building on the north side of Shibuya Crossing, opened in 1987 as 109-2 and given its present name in 2018. Its floors hold character, anime and souvenir shops and a food floor, and the rooftop deck MAG8 looks straight down on the scramble crossing.
An indoor observation deck on the 52nd floor of Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, the 238-metre office tower in Roppongi, Minato, completed in 2003. Windows on all sides look out over central Tokyo, including Tokyo Tower, and towards Mount Fuji in clear weather; the deck also hosts temporary exhibitions. The open-air rooftop Sky Deck is closed until further notice.
An indoor observation deck on the 60th floor of Sunshine 60, the 239.7-metre skyscraper in Ikebukuro completed in 1978, about 226 metres above the ground. After a renovation it reopened in April 2023 as Tenbou-Park, with an artificial lawn, seating areas and a café, and its windows look out across the city in all directions.
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, opened in 1952 as Japan's first national art museum and stands in Kitanomaru Park beside the moats of the Imperial Palace. Its collection covers Japanese art from the Meiji period to the present, with Nihonga and Western-style painting, prints and sculpture, alongside some Western works.
A hot-spring spa on the upper floors of the LaQua building in Tokyo Dome City, Bunkyō, opened in 2003. Its amber water comes from a natural spring about 1,700 metres below the site and fills indoor baths and an open-air bath, alongside a carbonated-water bath, Finnish-style saunas, relaxation lounges, treatment salons and restaurants.
Tokyo Tower is a 333-metre lattice communications and observation tower in Shiba Park, Minato, completed in 1958 and painted white and international orange. Modelled on the Eiffel Tower, it has a Main Deck at 150 metres and a Top Deck at about 250 metres, with the FootTown building of shops and restaurants at its base.
Ueno Park is a public park in Taitō, Tokyo, opened in 1873 on land that had belonged to the temple Kan'ei-ji, one of Japan's first public parks. It holds the Tokyo National Museum, the National Museum of Western Art, the National Museum of Nature and Science and Ueno Zoo, along with Shinobazu Pond and its lotus beds and about 1,200 cherry trees.
The National Museum of Western Art in Ueno Park opened in 1959 around the collection of the industrialist Kōjirō Matsukata. Its main building, designed by Le Corbusier, is part of the UNESCO World Heritage listing of his architectural work, and the galleries show European painting and sculpture from the 14th to the early 20th century.
The Tokyo National Museum in Ueno Park, founded in 1872, is the oldest national museum in Japan. It holds about 120,000 objects, among them 89 National Treasures, shown in rotating displays across several buildings: the Honkan for Japanese art, the Tōyōkan for Asian art and the Gallery of Hōryū-ji Treasures.
teamLab Planets Tokyo is a digital art museum in Toyosu created by the art collective teamLab with DMM.com and opened in 2018. Visitors walk barefoot through large immersive installations, some of them in water, and through garden and forest areas; the venue is scheduled to run until the end of 2027.
A museum of miniature models in the Ariake district of Kōtō, opened in June 2020 inside a logistics centre building and covering about 7,000 square metres. Its rooms hold detailed dioramas such as a space centre with rocket launches, Kansai International Airport with moving aircraft, a global village, a Shibuya street scene and sets from the anime Evangelion.
A public aquarium on the fifth and sixth floors of Tokyo Solamachi at the foot of Tokyo Skytree in Sumida, opened in 2012 together with the tower. All tanks use artificial seawater. Exhibits include an open indoor pool with Magellanic penguins, fur seals, a tank modelled on the sea around the Ogasawara Islands, jellyfish and spotted garden eels.
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