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Sightseeing Tickets & Passes

Top Attractions in Tokyo

1. Meiji Jingu Shrine

Points of Interest & Landmarks

Shibuya / Harajuku / Ebisu

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Set inside a spacious 100-year old park, the Meiji Jingu shrine includes a small cluster of buildings around a…

2. Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden

Gardens

Shinjuku

The 58-hectare property, and home to 20,000 trees, is loaded with history, having been owned by a Japanese feudal lord…

3. Yomiuri Land

Amusement & Theme Parks • Water Parks

Admission tickets from SGD 81.71

4. Asakusa

Neighbourhoods

Ueno, Asakusa

The 10th century Sensoji temple, destroyed in WWII and rebuilt to resemble the original in 1960, is the centre piece of…

5. Edo-Tokyo Museum

History Museums

This history museum traces the birth of the City of Tokyo beginning is 1603 and through the ages to the Tokyo of today.

6. Ueno Park

Parks

Ueno, Asakusa

The idea was to create a public park under the patronage of the Imperial family based on Western ideas of enlightment…

7. Tokyo National Museum

Points of Interest & Landmarks • Art Museums

Ueno, Asakusa

This museum has an array of different artifacts spread out over two stories in (the main) grand building.

8. Ginza

Neighbourhoods

Ginza / Tokyo Nihonbashi

The world’s biggest seafood market, moving an astounding 2400 tonnes of seafood a day and supplying Tokyo’s top…

9. Samurai Museum

Speciality Museums

Shinjuku

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Temporarily closed

The samurai have an iconic symbol of power, courage and masculinity over hundreds of years of Japanese history .

10. Senso-ji Temple

Religious Sites

Ueno, Asakusa

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Open now

It’s Tokyo’s oldest temple, built in the 628 and rebuilt after it was completely destroyed during the war.

11. Tokyo Skytree

Points of Interest & Landmarks • Architectural Buildings

Admission tickets from SGD 23.88

It reminds Japanese that the Skytree's current location belongs to the ancient Musashi Province.

12. Odaiba District

Neighbourhoods

Odaiba / Shiodome / Shinbashi

This is a new area to Tokyo (developed in the last 10 to 15 years) which is filled up with shopping malls, hotels and…

13. Mori Art Museum

Art Museums

Akasaka / Roppongi

This art museum occupies the top two floors of this 52nd floor building.

14. Tokyo Tower

Points of Interest & Landmarks • Architectural Buildings

Odaiba / Shiodome / Shinbashi

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Eiffel Tower-inspired and painted white and international orange,this structure was built in 1958.

15. Tokyo Metropolitan Government Buildings

Points of Interest & Landmarks • Observation Decks & Towers

Shinjuku

The buildings (two of them joined together) are enormous skyscrapers which attest to the importance and size of the…

16. Hama Rikyu Gardens

Parks • Gardens

Odaiba / Shiodome / Shinbashi

Previously the hunting ground of the Tokugawa shoguns this garden changed its design several times over the centuries.

17. Tokyo Central Railway Station

Historic Sites • Points of Interest & Landmarks

Ginza / Tokyo Nihonbashi

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The entire building is built around a seismic isolation design; essentially the buildings foundation and structure has…

18. Chidorigafuchi

Points of Interest & Landmarks

Yotsuya / Iidabashi

Though this memorial honors 3 MILLION lost souls, it is very small with only one small gazebo housing one symbolic…

19. The National Art Center, Tokyo

Art Museums

Akasaka / Roppongi

Chronologically ordered to show Dali's earlier works and later foray into surrealism.

20. teamLab Borderless

Art Galleries • Speciality Museums

Odaiba / Shiodome / Shinbashi

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It is a highly unusual, creative and interactive 3D digital art museum occupying over 10,000 sq ft, two floors, and a…

21. Tokyo City View Observation Deck (Roppongihills)

Observation Decks & Towers

Akasaka / Roppongi

The Skytree towers above the city and its many temples, shrines, an gardens without, however, imposing itself on their…

22. Nezu Shrine

Historic Sites • Points of Interest & Landmarks

Ueno, Asakusa

Temple structure and temple compound filled with tori and plants.

23. Nezu Museum

Art Museums

Akasaka / Roppongi

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Kuma’s roofs are abstractions of traditional Japanese architecture, overhanging eaves shelter and shade from the…

24. Akihabara

Neighbourhoods

Ochanomizu / Akihabara / Kanda

The center of Japan's otaku culture devoted to manga and electronics.

25. National Museum of Nature and Science

Science Museums

Ueno, Asakusa

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The Japan Gallery deals with all aspects of this nation's islands from their creation, to their geology, flora and…

26. Yasukuni Shrine

Historic Sites • Religious Sites

Yotsuya / Iidabashi

This is the 'controversial' shrine that remembers ALL of Japan's war dead - the good, the bad, the civilians, the…

27. Shibuya Crossing

Points of Interest & Landmarks

Shibuya / Harajuku / Ebisu

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Open now

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This crosswalk is the essence of how Tokyo has millions of habitants and they all live in harmony.

28. Rikugien Garden

Parks • Gardens

Ikebukuro

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This historic garden was originally constructed in 1702 and is a strolling garden which represented 88 scenes from…

29. Ryogoku Kokugikan

Arenas & Stadiums

The site has date of release information and floor plans of all the various venues across the country.

30. Akasaka Palace (State Guesthouse)

Points of Interest & Landmarks • Architectural Buildings

Akasaka / Roppongi

The Guesthouse sits on a piece of prime real estate that houses the royal family and their relatives.

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