The way to visit Yanaka is to walk from Nippori Station to Yanaka Ginza and then get lost for two hours — wooden shopfronts, 1819 mochi shop, cats, and a cemetery lined with cherry trees.
Districts
Tokyo neighbourhood guides — Shibuya, Shinjuku, Asakusa and more.
Roppongi has been rebuilt since the nightlife-only reputation of the 1990s. It is now the densest art district in Tokyo, home to Mori, the National Art Center, Suntory, and teamLab Borderless.
A honest guide to Tokyo Station – the domes, the Ramen Street, the Shinkansen platforms, and the city under the city that most tourists walk straight past.
Ueno is the oldest public park in Japan (1873), with five major museums, a zoo famous for its pandas, Shinobazu Pond and its lotuses, the Saigō Takamori statue, and the post-war Ameyoko market — all in one walkable district in northeast Tokyo.
The honest Harajuku guide — Takeshita Street, Cat Street, Omotesando, purikura, the rainbow cotton candy truth, crepes worth queuing for, and how to time your visit so you dont hate it.
Ginza is a 400-year-old specialised-commerce district, not a post-war invention. A practical guide to the Wako clock tower, single-act kabuki tickets, weekend pedestrian paradise, and how to eat well here without remortgaging.
Tokyo’s Electric Town: anime shops, retro games at Super Potato, under-track radio stalls, maid cafes, and how to actually spend an afternoon in Akihabara.
A first-timer guide to Shibuya in Tokyo — the Scramble, Hachiko, Shibuya Sky, Nonbei Yokocho, and which of the station exits to actually use.
The real first-timer guide to Shinjuku: how to survive the world’s busiest station, the free skyline view at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, and which bits of Kabukicho, Omoide Yokocho and Golden Gai are worth your night.
A first-timer guide to Odaiba, the artificial island in Tokyo Bay with the Unicorn Gundam, Rainbow Bridge, teamLab Planets, and a Statue of Liberty nobody asked for. Transport, timings, costs, and the one day-plan that works.