Tokyo

This Tokyo travel guide brings our guides for the city into one place. Tokyo is two cities living in the same place. You can stand in a quiet shrine courtyard in the morning. You can be lost in light and crowds by night. Then you turn a corner and find a lane that has not changed in decades.

The city is enormous, so it works best broken into neighbourhoods. Each district has its own character and pace. Shibuya and Shinjuku run fast and bright after dark. Asakusa and Ueno hold the older, slower side of the city. Pick a few areas, learn the trains, and let the rest unfold.

We have gathered our Tokyo guides by area so you can find your part of the city fast. For now the focus is the landmarks most first trips are built around. That means the temples, the towers, the crossings and the shrines. More areas go up as we publish them, each with guides for food, sights and where to stay.

Every guide here is built from time actually spent in the city. We focus on where to stay, what is worth your time, and the quieter details most itineraries miss. Use this Tokyo travel guide as your starting point. When you want to research the city itself, the official Go Tokyo site is a good place to begin.