Culture Showa Kinen Park Flower Festival Todd Wojnowski The Showa Kinen Park in Tachikawa, Tokyo hosts the incredibly beautiful spring Flower Festival. Colors, scents and designs stretch..
Activities Walking Across the Rainbow Bridge Manish Prabhune Walking over the Rainbow bridge in the evening offers stunning views of the city, which cannot be enjoyed the same way in the car...
7 Culture Sayama Park and Lake Tama Brian Wood-Koiwa Sayama park forms the eastern slope of the dam that created Lake Tama with views of Mt Fuji to the west and the skyscrapers of Shinjuku..
11 Culture Wisteria Festival, Kameido Tenjin Nicole Bauer Kameido Tenjin Shrine is one of the few places in Tokyo—and the most popular one—, where you can see great wisteria from late ..
Accommodation Toyoko Inn Nihonbashi Zeimushomae Bonson Lam Toyoko Inn has uniformally low prices throughout the year, so it is best to book early. The Nihonbashi Hotel is the closest Toyoko..
6 Culture Rikugien Gardens Light Up Manish Prabhune Beautiful light up of Rikugien Gardens in autumn and spring—a major attraction in the northern suburbs of Tokyo.
9 Culture Ueno Park - Sakura Season Susan Tumanon I often see Ueno Park on Japanese TV whenever cherry blossom season approches. I decided to see what the buzz was all about.
10 Culture Cherry Blossoms at Zojo-ji Nicole Bauer Zojo-ji in Tokyo during sakura season: The scene around the temple with salarymen and office ladies enjoying their bento under..