Tokyo
Tokyo, officially the Tokyo Metropolis, is the capital and most populous city of Japan.
Tokyo, officially the Tokyo Metropolis, is the capital and most populous city of Japan. The population of the city proper was over 14 million as of 2023. The Greater Tokyo Area, which includes Tokyo and parts of six neighboring prefectures, is the third-most populous metropolitan area in the world, with 33 million residents as of 2025.
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What Wikivoyage says to see
Tokyo has a vast array of sights, but the first items on the agenda of most visitors are the temples of Asakusa, the gardens of the Imperial Palace (in Chiyoda) and the Meiji Shrine (明治神宮 Meiji-jingū, in Harajuku). Tokyo has many commercial centres for shopping, eating and simply wandering around for experiencing the modern Japanese urban phenomenon.
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Things to do
See the tuna auction at the Toyosu Market and eat a sushi breakfast at the former Tsukiji Fish Market. Take a boat ride on the Sumida River from Asakusa. Lose yourself in the dazzling neon jungle outside major train stations in the evenings. Shibuya and east Shinjuku at night can make Times Square or Piccadilly Circus look rural in comparison — it has to be seen to be believed.
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Where to eat
Visitors from Western countries may be surprised to find that despite its justified reputation for being an expensive city, eating out in Tokyo can be surprisingly affordable.
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Getting to Tokyo
- Airports
- Tokyo Haneda (HND), 18 km · Narita (NRT), 63 km · Ibaraki (IBR), 85 km
- Narita → Tokyo57 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · ¥810–1,110
- Omitama → Tokyo85 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · ¥1,080–1,470
- Makinohara / Shimada → Tokyo168 km · quickest by road, 3h 11m · ¥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 Tokyo
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 Tokyo. 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 Tokyo – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Tokyo
Tokyo is 1 km from Shinjuku, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.