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Things to Do in Tokyo

Hand-picked sights and experiences across Tokyo, with day trips to Chiba, Kanagawa, Yamanashi and more.

Two sumo wrestlers locked together mid-bout on the clay dohyo at Asakusa Sumo Club in Tokyo, a staff member in a blue happi coat watching from ringside beside the east-side name plaque, with the audience seated at tables only a few metres awayTokyo Sumo Experience with Chankonabe LunchGiant mirrored ovoids standing on moss-covered mounds in drifting mist, reflecting the visitors and the mirrored walls around themteamLab Planets TokyoThe bright orange Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes shopfront on the Diagon Alley set, its curved bay windows stacked three storeys high, with mannequins of the Weasley twins in pinstripe suits standing outsideWarner Bros. Studio Tour Tokyo - The Making of Harry PotterShibuya Crossing seen from directly above, pedestrians streaming across the diagonal stripes between neon-covered buildings, buses queued along the station roadShibuya Sky Observation DeckVisitors standing and sitting on a low mound inside a darkened teamLab room, curtains of blue light falling all around them with drifting projected flowersteamLab Borderless TokyoA driver in a blue hooded animal onesie at the wheel of a blue go-kart lit from below, stopped on the crossing of a neon-lit Tokyo intersection at nightJAPANKART go-kart tour in ShibuyaTwo drivers in bright yellow and orange animal onesies raise their arms at the wheel of black go-karts, more costumed riders lined up behind them on a sunlit Tokyo backstreetJAPANKART go-kart tour through Tokyo Bay, Ginza, and AkihabaraThe white lattice shaft of Tokyo Skytree rising into a clear blue sky, framed by branches of cherry blossom in full bloomTokyo Skytree Observation DecksTwo visitors in samurai armour and horned helmets holding katana raised, posed against a gold screen painted with black inkSamurai & Ninja Museum Tokyo

When to catch the colours in Tokyo?

Average cherry blossom and autumn foliage dates for Tokyo, from the Japan Meteorological Agency's 1991–2020 normals — the fortnight to aim for, not a promise for any particular year.

Where to look next?

The prefectures we've mapped so far, nearest to Tokyo first.

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