Roppongi
Roppongi is a district of Minato, Tokyo, Japan, famous for the Roppongi Hills development area, an upscale commercial and residential complex, and night club scene.
Roppongi is a district of Minato, Tokyo, Japan, famous for the Roppongi Hills development area, an upscale commercial and residential complex, and night club scene. Several foreign embassies are located in or near Roppongi. The district is in central Tokyo, situated south of Akasaka and north of Azabu and is noted for its night life, attracting both local residents and visitors from abroad.
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Roppongi Crossing
The heart of Roppongi is this big intersection of Roppongi-dōri (六本木通り), under the elevated highway, and Gaien-higashi-dōri (外苑東通り).
- 02National Art Center
- 03Sumitomo Collection
- 04Roppongi Hills
- 05Mohri Garden
In 2003, thousands of small Japanese killifish were liberated into this small park's pond after living in outer space as part as an experiment, they were the first animals to breed in space.
- 06Mori Art Museum
From Wikivoyage: Roppongi, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Things to do
- 01Karaoke-kan
- 02Nagomi Spa and Fitness
Grand Hyatt Tokyo Hotel, 6-10-3 Roppongi, reservation@tyogh.com.
- 03TV Asahi
- 04Toho Cinemas
From Wikivoyage: Roppongi, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Where to eat
Not surprisingly, Roppongi has a plethora of international restaurants, and generally some of the best restaurants in Tokyo (though some research is needed to find them.) Below budget?
From Wikivoyage: Roppongi, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Roppongi
- Airports
- Tokyo Haneda (HND), 13 km · Narita (NRT), 61 km · Ibaraki (IBR), 85 km
- Narita → Roppongi54 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · ¥780–1,070
- Omitama → Roppongi85 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · ¥1,050–1,430
- Makinohara / Shimada → Roppongi169 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · ¥2,220–3,030
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Roppongi
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Roppongi. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inHitchhiking into Tokyo is pretty easy, but hitchhiking out is considerably more difficult.
- Get inIt's definitely possible for determined cheapskates though, see Hitchhiking in Japan for a detailed list of tested escape routes from the city.
- Get inKokusai Kogyo Bus (国際興業バス) Keisei Bus (京成バス) Keikyu Bus (京急バス) Keio Bus (Japanese Website) (京王バス) Kanto Bus (関東バス) Nishi Tokyo Bus (Japanese Website) (西東京バス) Odakyu Bus (Japanese Website) (小田急バス) Odakyu Highway Bus (小田急ハイウェイバス) Seibu Bus (西武バス) Tobu Bus (Japanese Website) (東武バス) Tohoku Kyuko Bus (東北急行バス) One of the great ports of the world, Tokyo also has domestic ferry services to other points in Japan.
- Get inHowever, none of the regular international ferries to Japan call at Tokyo.
- Get inThe main long-distance ferry terminal is , on an artificial island adjacent to Odaiba in Tokyo Bay.
From Wikivoyage: Tokyo, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Roppongi – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Roppongi
Roppongi is 4 km from Shinjuku, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.