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New popular place to visit
Roppongi Hills

Roppongi Hills
New popular spot in Tokyo with more than 2000 shops, restaurants, cinema complex, hotels, offices and residences.

Shiodome
Once the town of office buildings in the bay area, it is now redeveloped into a new complex facility with office buildings, shops, restaurants and theaters located between Shinbashi and Hamamatsucho.


Famous spots
Shinjuku "Takashimaya"
Harajuku "Takeshita Dori"
Ginza
Odaiba
Ueno Koen
Tokyo Tower
Shiodome "Hamarikyu"

Shinjuku
This busy area is the largest shopping and amusement district in Tokyo with high-rise buildings, huge department stores, amusement centers open for 24 hours, high-class restaurants and bars for everybody.

Shibuya
Shibuya is the quarter of many young men and women in the latest and colorful fashion, and is the birth place of the culture of youths.

Harajuku
This town of the youth culture has created various fashions since 1960s. "Takeshita Dori" is now attracting low teens and thriving with boutiques, general shops, restaurants and coffee shops. Harajuku area has turned out to be the town for the adults as well, highlighted with fashionable boutiques, brand shops and restaurants.

Ginza
Boasting a long history, Ginza represents Tokyo's shopping centers for adults, and has long-established stores, specialty stores, high-end brand shops and many kinds of restaurants.

Akihabara
This is the worldly famous shopping center of electric appliances, audio equipments and PC and the related items.

Odaiba
This is the new amusement spot in the Bay Area consisted of shopping malls, high-class hotels, hot spa and many restaurants.

Ameyoko, Ueno
With more than 500 stores of food or sundry always at a bargain, Ameyoko is attracting many shoppers.
On the other hand, Ueno Park, comprising Ueno Zoo, Shinobazu Pond, art galleries and museums, is a well-known place for a stroll.

Kappabashi
This is a place of stores of cuisine related items for business use such as food sample made of plastic, tableware, cooking equipment and instruments, billboard, and utensil.

Tokyo Tower
Tokyo Tower was built in 1958 and is a symbol of the rapid economic growth in the post Second World War period. Standing as high as 333 m, it is lit up at night to show its beauty.

Asakusa, Ryogoku
In Asakusa you can enjoy the taste of old Tokyo which still remains in the long-standing theaters, the cinemas, many restaurants and coffee shops in this area. The famous temple, Sensoji, is quite popular especially among non-Japanese.
With Sumo stables centered on Ryogoku Kokugikan, Ryogoku area also remains the townscape of old days.

Hamarikyu
Hamarikyu was a private garden for the royal family managed by the Imperial Household Agency before the breakout of the Second World War, and is now Tokyo metropolitan government-run park nationally designated as a place of scenic beauty. This is a rare example of a park at the beach where the ocean tide roams in and out.

Tsukiji Fish Market
This is the fish market whose volume of selling fish is the biggest in the world. Shops and restaurants on its periphery attracts many people not only those who on business but also everyday people.


Historical spots
The Imperial Palace
Asakusa "Kaminarimon"

The Imperial Palace
This was formerly a palace for Tokugawa Shogun. As the capital city moved from Kyoto to Tokyo at the Meiji Restoration, it was handed over to the royal family as their residence. It stretches across one million sq.m., and is spotted with the palace, the residences of Emperor and Empress and their family as well as the office of the Imperial Household Agency.

Sensoji Temple
The impressive scene of the gate "Kaminarimon" of Sensoji Temple and its huge paper lantern hanging on it is worldly famous. There are many people who wanted to come to see it from overseas.

Meiji Shrine
At the demise of Meiji Emperor and Empress, Meiji Shrine was built and completed on November 1st, 1920. It has the Japan's oldest wooden shrine gate "Torii" and is decorated with more than 200 thousand trees.

Spots around Tokyo

Tokyo Disney Land / Sea Resort
This is the largest theme park in Asia comprised of Disney Land, Disney Sea (theme park integrated with hotels) and Ikspiari (shopping facility).

kamakura
Kamakura Shogunate was established by Shogun Yoritomo and seated in this area, which flourished as the center of politics and culture since then. The historic sites of this ancient capital such as Tsurugaoka Hachimangu, Kamakura Daibutsu and Hase still attract many sightseers.

Hakone
Hakone is a part of a national park located in western Kanagawa Prefecture. Many people go to "Hakone Shichiyu" for a hot-spring cure. It is more than a hot spring resort. It is also a major sightseeing spot with many hotels, Japanese inns and Ashinoko Lake.

Nikko
This is a religious place established in the days of Tokugawa Shogunate, with Nikko Toshogu as the major shrine to worship the late Tokugawa Ieyasu.
There are also Sanrinno Temple, Futarasan Temple, Chuzenji Lake, Senjogahara in this area.

Yokohama
This is the center of Kanagawa Prefecture, and has an exotic atmosphere, since foreign cultures were introduced to this town earlier than other parts of Japan and was resided by more expatriates since its early days. Today's Yokohama embraces a big shopping area centered on the bay area and the world largest Chinatown.

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