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high-speed elevator goes up
to the 45th-floor observation
gallery for the city’s best
sunset and night views.

An Outdoors Day
Two adults allow at least
¥10,000
• A relaxing river cruise
• Stroll around the historic
Imperial Palace Garden
• A stroll in Shinjuku-Gyoen
Garden
• Shopping and a shabu-
shabu dinner Imperial Palace Garden, a pleasant retreat in the heart of the city
front of Tokyo Station (see p44)
Morning and its red brick, Queen Anne- Art Browsing
Board the Suijo Bus (river style facade.
cruise) (see p170) at Asakusa’s Two adults allow at least
Azuma Bridge. The Sumida Afternoon ¥10,000
River provides the setting for Return to the palace moat • Treasures at the Tokyo
one of the most interesting and Otemon gate, the main National Museum
concentrations of bridges entrance to the Imperial Palace • A fine art museum
in Japan. On alighting, walk Garden (see p45). The green of • A crafts museum
straight into the grounds of manicured lawns contrasts with
the Hama-rikyu Gardens gigantic stones and a ruined
(see pp42–3). This stunning, keep that give a vivid sense of
spacious, landscaped garden the grandeur of the original Morning
dating from the 1650s includes castle grounds. After, head for JR Begin this day of museums,
an elegant tea pavilion on the Yurakucho Station to Shinjuku- galleries, and cultural sights
edge of its tidal salt pond. Next, Gyoen Garden (see p179), a with the world’s largest
walk through the Ginza district cherry blossom-viewing spot. collection of Japanese art
or take the metro to Hibiya The former estate of a feudal and antiquity at the Tokyo
Park (see p45), a spacious lord, this is the closest you National Museum (see pp52–5).
Western-style park, full of shady can get to a great outdoors The cafés around nearby
arbors. Stroll along the outer experience in Tokyo. Stroll over Shinobazu Pond, with the
moat of the Imperial Palace to to Takashimaya Times Square Benten-do temple sitting
the Marunouchi Building (see and Tokyu Hands (see p140) for on an islet surrounded by
p44) and lunch at Kua’Aina, window shopping. For dinner, lotuses, are a good place for
a popular Hawai ian burger sample the superb shabu-shabu a coffee break. Take the Ginza
restaurant located right in at Nabe-zo (see p133). Line to Omotesando for the
next cultural treat, the Nezu
Museum (see p70). Finally,
lunch on authentic sushi at
Sushi Gotoku (see p134).
Afternoon
It is just two stops from
Shibuya on the Keio-Inokashira
Line to Komaba-Todaimae and
the Japan Folk Crafts Museum
(see p79), housed in a wonder-
ful 1936 residence. Return
to Shibuya Station and the
Bunkamura (see p68) cross-
cultural center, which houses
regular exhibitions. After
spending an hour or two here,
you will be well positioned for
Exhibition of flag models at the Japan Folk Crafts Museum a night out in Shibuya.

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