{"id":67,"date":"2026-07-17T10:30:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T10:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/?touriza_city=tokyo"},"modified":"2026-09-17T14:19:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T14:19:38","slug":"tokyo","status":"publish","type":"touriza_city","link":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/?touriza_city=tokyo","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Why go<\/h2>\n<p>Tokyo works as a collection of towns joined by the Yamanote loop. Each has its own scale and closing time \u2014 Yanaka feels like 1955, Shibuya like a decade ahead \u2014 and the fastest way to enjoy it is to pick two per day and walk them properly.<\/p>\n<h2>Five things to do<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"rule-list\">\n<li>\n<div style=\"display:flex;gap:14px\"><span class=\"n\">01<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>Sunrise at Meiji Jing\u016b<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\" style=\"margin-top:4px\">Gravel avenues, empty before 7am.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"display:flex;gap:14px\"><span class=\"n\">02<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>Standing sushi in Ueno<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\" style=\"margin-top:4px\">Ten pieces, fifteen minutes, no reservation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"display:flex;gap:14px\"><span class=\"n\">03<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>Yanaka Ginza at 5pm<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\" style=\"margin-top:4px\">Croquettes and cats.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"display:flex;gap:14px\"><span class=\"n\">04<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>Sumida river bus to Asakusa<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\" style=\"margin-top:4px\">A boat instead of a train.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"display:flex;gap:14px\"><span class=\"n\">05<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>A neighbourhood sent\u014d<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\" style=\"margin-top:4px\">The local social club, for the price of a coffee.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Neighbourhoods<\/h2>\n<div class=\"grid g2\">\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<h4 style=\"border:0;padding:0;margin-bottom:6px\">Yanaka<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\">Wooden houses, cemeteries and a shopping street the war missed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<h4 style=\"border:0;padding:0;margin-bottom:6px\">Shimokitazawa<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\">Second-hand shops, tiny theatres and live houses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<h4 style=\"border:0;padding:0;margin-bottom:6px\">Kagurazaka<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\">Stone lanes, French bakeries and geisha history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<h4 style=\"border:0;padding:0;margin-bottom:6px\">Toyosu &amp; Tsukiji Outer<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\">The wholesale market moved; the food stalls stayed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Getting around<\/h2>\n<p>Buy the transport card on arrival \u2014 every city on this list has one, and it is cheaper than single fares within about four journeys. Walking covers more than the map suggests: most of the districts above are within thirty minutes of each other on foot.<\/p>\n<p>Taxis and ride apps are worth it late at night and when you are carrying luggage. Everything else is faster on the metro, the tram or the ferry, in that order.<\/p>\n<h2>Where to eat<\/h2>\n<p>The rule that holds in Tokyo is the rule that holds everywhere: eat at the busy place, at the hour the locals eat, and order the thing the kitchen makes most of. Reserve for dinner in the districts above; lunch rarely needs it.<\/p>\n<h2>Two days here<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Morning: Sunrise at Meiji Jing\u016b<\/li>\n<li>Afternoon: walk Yanaka<\/li>\n<li>Evening: Yanaka Ginza at 5pm<\/li>\n<li>Day two: A neighbourhood sent\u014d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirteen million people and a hundred village-sized neighbourhoods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":315,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"touriza_continent":[2],"touriza_theme":[],"class_list":["post-67","touriza_city","type-touriza_city","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","touriza_continent-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/touriza_city\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/touriza_city"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/touriza_city"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/touriza_city\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/touriza_city\/67\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"touriza_continent","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftouriza_continent&post=67"},{"taxonomy":"touriza_theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftouriza_theme&post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}