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Tokyo
Tokyo oldest temple, fronted by the lantern-lit Nakamise shopping street.
The world's largest fish market, successor to Tsukiji, where pre-dawn tuna auctions and dawn sushi breakfasts draw food lovers to Tokyo Bay.
A raucous open-air market of over 250 stalls under the Yamanote tracks near Ueno, famous for cheap seafood, fruit and street snacks.
A warren of six tiny alleys in Shinjuku packed with over 200 minuscule, characterful bars, each seating just a handful of drinkers.
Tokyo's 'Kitchen Town', an 800-metre street of shops selling everything for the restaurant trade, from hand-forged knives to plastic display food.
A smoky, lantern-lit warren of tiny yakitori and izakaya stalls beside Shinjuku Station, a surviving slice of postwar Showa-era Tokyo.
A pocket-sized retro drinking alley of around 40 tiny bars beside Shibuya Station, a nostalgic hideaway amid the neon.
A street of some 70 restaurants on Tsukishima island devoted to monjayaki, Tokyo's gooey, cook-it-yourself griddle dish.
A nostalgic old-Tokyo shopping street in the Yanaka district, lined with some 60 shops and stalls selling street food, sweets and crafts.
A buzzing, retro indoor food alley in Ebisu, packed with around 20 tiny stalls serving everything from grilled seafood to oden under one roof.
A dense maze of tiny shops, bars and eateries by Kichijoji Station, named for how its packed little stalls resemble the holes of a harmonica.
The Tokugawa family temple beneath Tokyo Tower, home to the oldest wooden gate in the city.
A 300-year-old shrine famous for its tunnel of red torii gates and springtime azalea hillside.
The tranquil 'lucky cat' temple in Setagaya where hundreds of white maneki-neko sit stacked in prayer.
Akihabara's 1,300-year-old guardian shrine, patron of merchants, prosperity and — today — technology.
The shogun's protective shrine in Nagatacho, ringed by skyscrapers and a hidden red torii staircase.
Tokyo's shrine of scholarship, wreathed in plum blossom and students' exam prayers each February.
The Zen temple where Japan's legendary 47 Ronin are buried beside the lord they died to avenge.
A retro shitamachi temple of jaw-dropping wood carvings, reached down a nostalgic old sweet-shop street.
Tokyo's largest Hachiman shrine, birthplace of professional sumo and home to a jewel-studded golden mikoshi.
A astonishing Indian-inspired Buddhist temple of stone domes and stained glass beside Tsukiji market.
Japan's oldest and largest museum, holding the world's greatest collection of samurai swords, Buddhist art and national treasures.
Japan's national science museum, packed with dinosaur skeletons, a blue whale, and the taxidermied dog Hachiko.
Japan's only national museum devoted to Western art, in a UNESCO-listed Le Corbusier building with Monet, Rodin and Renoir.
