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Above, the Senso-ji ryokan of Tokyo Asakusa: This district of the north of Tokyo has of attraction only by its important ryokan, Senso-Ji or Asakusa Kannon. The first ryokan to be built on the spot was high into 645.
For a full list of Tokyo city information / tipss, parks and areas of interest The oldest buildings of the current site go back to the XVIIème century. The principal ryokan ** and the imposing door (Hozo-my) marking the entry of the site are XXème century. Before penetrating in this holy place carried by crowd, take time to stop you with certain small traditional and tourist gravers of the street Nakamise-dori. If you have suddenly walked you on the banks of the Sumida river located not far from the Subway station Asakusa, you will be able to then reach a service (paying) of cruising going of the Hama garden in Asagusa. Subway station Asakusa HOW TOible by the lines Ginza and Toei Asakusa. For a full list of Tokyo hostel, guesthouses, hostels and ryokan Local Time : GMT+9 hours Chiyoda: Not major of this district, the imperial palate and its garden. The imperial palate rebuilt after the second world war is HOW TOible to the public only at the birthday day from the emperor and New Year's day. The gardens are closed Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays of which the stone bridge (Nijubashi) and the most remarkable element. Subway: Subway station Otemachi HOW TOible by the lines Chiyoda, Hanzomon, Marunnouchi, Toei Mita and Tozai. Ginza: The term of Ginza means "place one one beats currency". This name comes to him from the presence of the old place of production of the currencies. Composed of resolutely modern buildings, it is the shopping area expensive with measures square and most luxurious of Tokyo. You will find there the department stores Hankyu, Matsuya Seibu, Wako, Sony building. All the marks of luxury are present Chanel, Cartier, Mikimoto. Allez to make a turn in Kabuki-za theater, the oldest theatre of Tokyo. Subway: Subway stations Ginza, Ginza-Itchome and Higashi-Ginza HOW TOible by the lines Hibiya and Yoei Asakusa. Harajuku: It is a district mode and connected of Tokyo. You will find all that it is necessary for you of tendency for your guard wraps. The meeting of the young population of the district will be able also to surprise you. You will discover in this district the sanctuary Meiji Jingu preserving the burials of the Meiji emperor and the empress including one certain number of personal effects are exposed in Meiji Treasure House. In the park of the sanctuary Meiji Jingu the superb gardens Minami-Ike Shobuda and Nai are. Another sanctuary of this district: the Togo sanctuary dedicated to the admiral Togo winner of the Russian troops in 1905. Harajuku also lays out of a large park the known "Yoyogi park" for these two stages Olympic conceived by the famous Tange-Kenzo architect, of a city information / tips of the Rock'n'roll & Roll. Subway: Subway station Harajuku HOW TOible by the Yamanote line. Above, the city information / tips of Tokyo Hibiya: the interest of this district resides in the presence of the park of Hibiya (which does not present anything very specific) and of the Diet (Japanese Parliament). You can on reservation visit the Diet. Subway: Subway station Hibiya HOW TOible by the lines Chiyoda, Hibiya and Toei Mita. Subway station Kokkai-Gijidomae HOW TOible by the lines Chiyoda and Marunnouchi. Ikebukuro: The life of this shopping area with its immense department stores (Metropolitan plaza, Sunshine city, Seibu and Tobu) is organized around the important railway center. To see in this district: department stores, the show room of Toyota (amlux), the Riyugi park (paying), Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space (concert), the botanical garden Koishikawa Shokubutsuen, the Zôshigaya cemetery. Subway station Ikebukuro HOW TOible by the lines Saikyo, Seibu-Ikebukuro, Tobu Tojo and Yamanote. Kanda: The point of essential interest of this district is the superb sanctuary vermilion and gold of Kanda Myojin which has also a small city information / tips whose entry is paying. Subway: Subway station Ochanomizu HOW TOible by the lines Chuo and Sobu. Marunouchi: District of business, it is not of major tourist interest. To however note the particular architecture of the station of Tokyo, and the presence of "Imperial Theater". Subway: Subway station Tokyo. Tokyo International Airport - Narita
Above, an TRAVELsight of the town of Tokyo. History Tokyo was originally a small village named Edo (??) establishes about 1453 by Ôta Dôkan. This village suddenly known a demographic explosion and became a political center when the shôgun Ieyasu Tokugawa decided to make of this village the military, political and administrative seat of its capacity in 1603. With this date the capital of Japan, place where the emperor sits, continuous to be Kyoto. Partly destroyed by the large fire of 1653, Edo will not reach the statute of capital and will take the name of Tokyo only in 1868. Minami-Aoyama: District tendency and artistic of Tokyo which offers to its visitors in addition to its stores very "in", a city information / tips of contemporary art, Nezu art city information / tips, Watari-Um (a small city information / tips of modern art), Japan Traditional Craft Center, the palate of Aoyama drawn by Tôyû Katayama and its park, resting it cemetery of Aoyama, remarkable the spiral building (gallery of art). Subway: Subway station Gaienmae HOW TOible by the Ginza line. Nihonbashi: This district, entirely destroyed by the earthquake of 1923, car its name of the Nihonbashi river which crosses it. It is a district of business but of less importance compared with the district of Marunouchi. It shelters the city information / tips of Western art "Bridgestone Muséum of Art" and Tokyo Stock Exchange which you can visit. Subway: Subway station Tokyo. Subway station Mitsukoshimae HOW TOible by the lines Ginza and Hanzomon. Subway station Nihonbashi HOW TOible by the lines Ginza-Tozai and Toei Asakusa. Roppongi: "Noisy" district concentrating discotheques and foreigners. To see the sanctuary Nogi Jinja dedicated to the Nogi general one of the heroes of the war Russo-Japanese woman. Mori Art city information / tips (6-10-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku. www.mori.art.mu seum), the National Center of art of Tokyo with these 14.000m2 of showrooms (7-22-2 Roppongi, Minato-ku. www.nact.jp) Subway: Subway station Roppongi HOW TOible by the Hibiya line. Above the park Ueno de Tokyo Shibuya: Shopping area, dynamics and of leisures. To see in this district: Bunkamura, an arts centre containing concert halls and cinema multiplexes. Tabacco and Salt city information / tips, the TEPCO Electric Energy city information / tips, Gôto Planetarium. You can stroll in the commercial alleys of HOW TOible Dôgenzaka plaza since famous Hachikô Plaza. Subway: Subway station Shibuya HOW TOible by the lines Ginza and Hanzomon. Shinjuku: The district of Shinjuku can be divided into two parts. North and is of Shinjuku (Higashi Shinjuku) dedicated to the entertainment (cinema, pachinko, bar, restaurant, theatre, music hall, discotheque, coil-hotels.). You can make your shopping in the immense shopping centres Isetan, Marui and Shinjuku Gyoen and visit the jolipetit sanctuary of Hanazono. The west of Shinjuku (Nishi Shinjuku) shelters an army of vertiginous towers to the modern design. Scrape ciels most interesting are Sumitomo building, Mitsui building, Yasuda Kasai and well on the town hall of Tokyo drawn by Kenzo Tange (Tokyo Tocho or TMG who is the acronym of Tokyo Metropolitan Governement). This part of Shinjuku shelters Togô Seiji Art city information / tips. Subway: The subway station Shinjuku of very contemporary architecture HOW TOible by the Yamanote line. Shimbashi: Shopping area sheltering many bars and restaurants. Tsukiji: Industrial district located at the south of Tokyo on the banks of the Sumida river. With not missing: the enormous fish market and Hama Detached De luxe hotel Garden, a garden of 25ha! Subway: Subway station Tsukiji HOW TOible by the Hibiya line. Ueno: This district lives by its park which shelters many treasures: the Tosho-gu sanctuary **, the Gojo sanctuary (to throw a glance with the alignment of Torii), the ryokans Rinno-ji and Benten-sama, the Kiyo-mizu mausoleum and the memorial of Shogi Tai, the national city information / tips of art Western, the national city information / tips of sciences, the national city information / tips of Tokyo ***, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Natural history city information / tips, the Shitamachi city information / tips ** (reconstitutes trade and traditional houses of the Edo era. Instructive and intéractif!) but also a small zoo, a superb pond named shinobazu, a pagoda of 4 stages of the XVIIIème century. After that we advise you to stroll at the market of Ameyoko located near the station. Tosho-gu and all the city information / tipss are paying. Subway: Subway station Ueno HOW TOible by the lines Ginza and Hibiya. Tourist Information CenterTourist Information Center Tokyo Office, 10F Tokyo Kotsu Kaikan Bldg. in front of JR Yurakucho station. Open 9am-5pm weekdays; 9am-noon on Saturday; closed Sunday + national holidays. (Tel: 033 201 3331). Kokusai Kanko Service Center, open Mon-Fri, 9.15am-5.15pm. (Tel: 033 252 1331). Embassies in Tokyo : A complete listing of foreign embassies and consulates in Tokyo. Bondi Books - Used English bookstore in Kichijoji. Tokyo means capital is. Until this date the capital of Japan was Kyoto. Tokyo is a town of relatively recent construction because the great seism of 1923 and the intensive bombardments of the second world war were right of the largest majority of the old buildings. Geography On the island of Honshû, Tokyo is a city of more than 2.140 km2 of the prefecture of the same name (Tokyo-to - ???), located in edge of bay of Tokyo giving on the peaceful one. Placed in the large plain of Kanto, it is sprinkled by the rivers Arakawa, Edo-gawa and Tama-gawa. Sumida. It is possible to divide the city into two, with a high part and a low part. Tokyo - A City of Villages
Tokyo has been the administrative center of Japan since the 1600s. Until the 1860s the Emperor exercised only symbolic rule from his palace in Kyoto, while those at the apex of the warrior class ran the country from their cheap accomodation in Tokyo. The low part located near the peaceful coast is under the sea level. Climate Monthly temperature in Tokyo Monthly precipitation in Tokyo Sunning monthly in Tokyo Monthly moisture in Tokyo Administrative division/addresses. Tokyo is divided into districts (Ku - ?) which are divided into district (chô) them even divided into blocks (is unemployed). Each house forming the block (is unemployed) is numbered. There is thus, most of the time, useless to seek street names, it is not. Think of always asking beside what (building, monument, restaurant.) your point of destination is. To Tokyo the islands of Izu Shôto are administratively attached: Hachijojima, Kôzujima, Mikurajima, Miyakejima, Niijima, Oshima, Shikinejima, Toshima, Udonejima. In other words, Kyoto was the repository of tradition, Tokyo the seat of power-an arrangement that persists to this day. Although Tokyo remains the administrative and political center of Japan - not to mention having also become its cultural center - stray only meters off the 'yellow brick roads' lined with skyscrapers and peopled with perfectly-turned-out creatures off the catwalks, and you will find that the metropolis also has its very down-home side. Enormous Tokyo has rightly been called a city of villages. In total, the conurbation is overwhelming and disorienting: a sea of streets, buildings, overhead highways and telephone wires. On closer inspection, though, Tokyo is a web of interconnected "villages," dominated by little old women who clean and gossip, water plants and keep a close eye on all who pass. These villages have become train stops or whole wards and cities, but still retain a local flavor defined by the shotengai , or high street, that is the center of activity. A good introduction to the high-tech center of the universe and its 12 million-plus inhabitants is a ride on the Japan HOTEL RESERVATION / BOOKING ONLINEYamanote loop line. An hour or so of Tokyo from the train will give you a feel for Tokyo: both it's grandeur and its clutter of mostly 2-3 storey architecture. Just avoid rush hour! For a full list of Tokyo city information / tipss, parks and areas of interest click here
Day Trips From TokyoAbove, an TRAVELsight of the Haneda airport of the town of Tokyo built on an artificial island. Airports Tokyo has 2 airports: Haneda (interior flight) and Narita (flight international). The transfer between the airport and the center of Tokyo can prove to be extremely expensive in the taxi. We thus advise you to travel by the train or the subway. Tourism Districts of Tokyo step by step. Akihabara - Akasaka - Asakusa - Chiyoda - Ginza - Harajuku - Hibiya - Ikebukuro - Kanda - Marunouchi - Minami-Aoyama - Roppongi - Shibuya - Shinjuku - Shimbashi - Ueno - Akihabara: It is the district of electronics, the computers and the portable telephones.
Attention at the time of your purchases, any material high-tech is not inevitably cheaper because you buy in Japan! Consult our councils of purchases while clicking here! Subway: Subway station Akihabara served by the lines Chuo, Sobu and Yamanote. Akasaka: Serious district with the hotels and élitistes restaurants and sélécts. You will find in this district the private city information / tips of the company Suntory "Suntory city information / tips of Art" exposing of the lacquers, of ceramics., the sanctuaries Hie Jinja and Toyakawa Inari and the city information / tips of floral arrangement "Sogetsu" in which you will be able to take courses of Ikebana. Subway: Subway station Akasaka-Mitsuke HOW TOible by the lines Ginza and Marunouchi. Subway station Nagatacho HOW TOible by the lines Namboku, Hanzomon and Yurakucho. HOW TOTRAVELNarita airport is Tokyo's main international airport with only a few international flights using the mainly domestic and nearer Haneda Airport. Airport Shuttle Buses - services to certain city center hostel, guesthouses from about 2,800 Yen.
Taxis from Narita - are expensive - around 20,000 Yen (1-2 hours). Trains from Haneda
Taxis from Haneda - are reasonable - around 6,000 Yen. HOTEL RESERVATION / BOOKING ONLINEAll mainline JR trains radiate from Tokyo Station connecting the capital via the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen lines to Shizuoka , Nagoya , Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe , Hiroshima and Fukuoka to the south and west and the Tohoku Shinkansen line to Sendai and Morioka in the north. The Joetsu Shinkansen line runs to Niigata on the Japan Sea coast. BusLong distance and night buses to many cities throughout Japan leave from Tokyo Station or Shinjuku Station.CHEAP TICKETSThere are ferries from Tokyo to Kushiro and Tomakomai in Hokkaido, Kochi and Tokushima in Shikoku and also to Kitakyushu in Kyushu and Nara in Okinawa. Getting Around in Tokyo
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Entertainment quarters of Roppongi , Shinjuku (Kabukicho) and cool youth scene in Shibuya . Sony Building in Ginza for the latest hi-tech. Tokyo Tower and environs for an interesting day and great views of the city. Ueno Park for relaxation, art and shopping. The Tokyo Metropolitan Building (Shinjuku) for high-rise views, Tsukiji fish market for morning sushi. Asakusa and the Yushima & Kanda district for a taste of old Edo. Tokyo National Stadium hosts many of 
Tokyo International Airport (Narita) to the city (64 kilometres): 
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Easy day or 2-day trips from Tokyo include 
Trains from Narita 
Buses from Haneda