Best Tourist Spots In Kanto

Address：605−4 Onuma-aza Mawatari, Hitachinaka-shi, Ibaraki

Access：Bus: 29min from JR Katsuta Station, or 10min from Ajigaura Station. Get off at 'Kaihin Koen Nishiguchi'. Car: get off the speedway at Hitachi Kaihin Koen IC.

Tel：029-265-9001

Hours：9:30-17:00

Top Review：Blue World! A Flower Garden Of The Same Color As The Sky

Now, people from not only Japan but also all over the world visit here without a break. Miharashi Hills have proudly blooming nemophilas with so wonderful blue view at Hitachi Seaside Park in Ibaraki. I want you all to visit here at least once, because it's the best one among tourist attractions.◎Access: Cars must be involved in a traffic jam. You can use a shuttle bus from JR Katsuta Station, or use Hitachinaka Kaihin Railways.

Address：2-3-1 Asakusa, Taito-ku, Tokyo

Access：5 min walk from Asakusa Station. By car or taxi, 30 min from Shinagawa Station, 20 min from Tokyo Station or 50 min from Hanada Airport.

Tel：03-3842-0181

Hours：6:00-17:00

Top Review：Temple & Town Excellent With Kimono Dress

Asakusa is excellent with Kimono, Japanese traditional dress. Kimono looks beautiful at Senso-ji Temple and Edo-machi around it. In the season of New Year Days, Nakamise-dori is decorated with New Year ornaments, and we can enjoy happier atmosphere than usual.

Address：1-1 Maihama, Urayasu-shi, Chiba

Access：5 min walk from JR Maihama Station. Bus services are available from some major stations or hotels in neighboring prefectures.

Tel：0570-00-8632

Hours：8:00-22:00

Top Review：Disneyland in Full Bloom with Cherry Blossoms

It was very cold from the morning on this day, and Marie's fan cap was a big success. Spring is still cold in the morning and evening due to the large temperature difference, but the park is the time when the flowers are in full bloom, so it's colorful and fun to see.

Address：1121 Ninotaira Hakone-machi, Ashigarashimo-gun, Kanagawa

Access：2 min walk from Chokoku-no Mori Station. By bus, 18 min from Hakone Yumoto Station to Ninotaira Iriguchi, then walk 5 min. By car, 60 min from Atsugi IC, or 30 min from Gotemba IC.

Tel：0460-82-1161

Hours：9:00-17:00

Top Review：Photo Spots Everywhere You Walk

The Museum of Sculpture in Hakone is a museum that is created in beautiful nature and is a walking tour in nature. There are many things to see such as the beautiful lawn and the symphony that brings happiness because the stand glass is a beautiful observatory! It will be a pretty photo spot wherever you take a photo.

Address：189 Yamanouchi, Kamakura-shi, Kanagawa

Access：10 min walk from Kitakamakura Station. 7 min by bus from Kamakura Station to Meigetsuin Temple. No parking area.

Tel：0467-24-3437

Hours：9:00-16:00

Top Review：Meigetsuin Blue You Can See At A Hydrangea Temple In Kamakura

Kamakura is renown for hydrangea in this season, and Meigetsuin Temple is one of the most popular places. There're 2500 trees of hydrangea in beautiful colors admired as 'Meigetsuin Blue'. You can meet the beautiful scenery of rainy season, together with the bamboo grove.◎To enjoy seeing and taking pictures of hydrangeas enough, it'll be better for you to visit as soon as Meigetsuin Temple opens, or about one hour before it closes.

Address：Sengokuhara Hakone-machi, Ashigarashimo-gun, Kanagawa

Access：30 min by bus from Hakone Yumoto Station to Sengoku Kogen.

Top Review：A World Of Gold Shining Pampas Grass

Sengokuhara Susuki Prairie has a long season of pampas grass so we can enjoy seeing the gradation of ear changing its color. The pampas grass was shining beautifully in the sunlight.◎The beast season to see is from late September to middle November.

Address：Odaiba Palette Town 138 Aomi, Koto-ku, Tokyo

Access：5 min walk from Tokyo Teleport Station, 5 min walk from Aomi Station. 20 min by car from Shinagawa Station. Toll parking area is available.

Hours：11:00-19:00 [Tri]11:00-21:00 [Sat]10:00-21:00 [Sun・Holidays]10：00-19：00

Closed：2nd・4th Tue

Top Review：Beautiful World Of Digital Art

On June 21st in 2018, Digital Art Museum opened at Odaiba, Tokyo. There's various art occupying every room, and it's completely another world. It must become a popular tourist spot in Tokyo.

Address：3173 Midori-cho, Tachikawa-shi, Tokyo

Access：10 min walk from Tachikawa Station. By car or taxi, 75 min from Shinagawa Station, or 90 min from Haneda Airport.

Tel：042-528-1751

Hours：9:30-17:00

Top Review：Beautiful Attractions Throughout Autumn At A Largest Park In Tokyo

Showa Kinen Park is located in Tokyo though, it's far larger than Disney Land! In autumn, we can enjoy autumn blessing so much, such as cosmos blooming on a hill and fall foliage at a Japanese garden. ◎You can walk from Tachikawa Station, but Cosmos Hill and Japanese Garden is toll area far from Tachikawa Station. It's better for you to take a bus from Tachikawa Station to Showa Kinen Park Sunagawa Gate.

Address：1-13 Maihama, Urayasu-shi, Chiba

Tel：0570-00-8632

Hours：8:00-22:00

Top Review：A Cruise Around the World of Disney

At DisneySea, the theme of which is a cruise, you can experience the scenery as if you were traveling around the world while boarding a boat. After playing to the fullest at popular attractions, take a break while watching the scenery slowly. Such a way of spending is also recommended. Pre-purchased tickets need to be confirmed as the number of visitors is currently limited.

Address：9th floor, Shibuya Scramble Square, 2-24-12, Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo

Access：Directly connected with Shibuya Station

Hours：5:30-8:00

Top Review：Shibuya Sky

A very beautiful night view seen from the top floor of Scramble Square. I was very impressed. It is recommended to go with a couple or with a friend. You can see the whole of Tokyo.

Address：607 Hasama-cho, Ashikaga-shi, Tochigi

Access：By car, 18 min from Sano Fujioka IC, 12 min from Sano Tanuma IC, or 15 min from Ashikaga IC. 1 min walk from JR Ashikaga Flower Park Station

Tel：0284-91-4939

Hours：9:00-18:00

Top Review：150 Years Old Great Wisteria To See Both In Daytime And Night-time

The best thing of Ashikaga Flower Park is this Great Wisteria. It was transplanted by the first Japanese woman tree doctor, thought to be over 150 years old, and spreads over a 600-tatami area! What's more, the wisteria flowers are beautifully lit up at night. Though you can't visit during the best season of the Great Wisteria, you can enjoy the pale pink, white and yellow ones.◎Ashikaga Flower Park Station, the new station of JR Ryomo Line, opened in 2018, and it takes 1 min on foot to the park. Parking area is also available.

Address：1-19 Oyama-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo

Access：5 min walk from Yoyogiuehara Station. By car or taxi, 20 min from Shinagawa, 30 min from Tokyo Station, 50 min from Haneda Airport.

Tel：03-5790-0760

Hours：10:00-18:00

Top Review：Gorgeous Foreign Architecture! The Largest Mosque In Japan

Tokyo Camii is said to be the largest mosque (Islamic chapel) in Japan. There're colors and gorgeous designs of foreign architecture that we rarely see in Japan. It's beautiful and sacred, and you can experience the exotic atmosphere.◎5 min walk from Yoyogiuehara Station. Anyone can look inside for free. Scarf are prepared for free, so be careful of bare fashion.

Address：327-6 Miyazawa, Hanno-shi, Saitama

Access：5 min by car or taxi from Han'nou Station

Top Review：A Lovely Wooden Monument In Beautiful Nature

We can see such a broad sky and beautiful nature in one hour from Tokyo. It's a place where the time flow slowly like Northern Europe. That's Metsa Village.

Address：15th Floor, COREDO Muromachi, 2-2-1 Nihombashi Muromachi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo

Access：Just near the A6 Gate of subway station ’Mitsukoshi-mae'

Top Review：Art Of Goldfish, Light And Water

Anyway, it's an artistic room. A modern art of light, music and goldfish. Though they're exhibited at only a large room and a passage, you can enjoy the art enough.

Address：3-11-2 Hase, Kamakura-shi, Kanagawa

Access：5 min walk from Hase Station of Enoden. 5 min walk from JR Hasekan'non Station. By car, 50 min from Yokohama city. Toll parking area is available.

Tel：0467-22-6300

Hours：8:00-17:00

Top Review：Hydrangea Temple In Kamakura! 2500 Trees Of Hydrangea And Lovely Jizo Images

Myogetsuin Temple is the most famous as a hydrangea temple in Kamakura, but Hase-dera is also a great spot of many hydrangeas. You can enjoy beautiful hydrangeas, and let's try to find smiling Ryoen Jizo images and a big Nagomi Jizo.

Address：1-1-2 Oshiage, Sumida-ku, Tokyo

Access：Just near Tokyo Skytree Station or Oshiage Station

Tel：03-5302-3480

Hours：8:00-22:00

Top Review：Tokyo Sky Tree With Kawazu Zakura Cherry Blossom

Kawazu Zakura (one of the famous kinds of cherry blossom in Japan) bloom around Tokyo Sky Tree from the middle of February to the early May. The trees are not so many though, we can take pictures of cherry blossoms with Sky Tree,

Address：4-2-8 Shibakoen, Minato-ku, Tokyo

Access：On foot: 5 min from Akabanebashi, 7 min from Kamiyacho, 6 min from Onarimon, 10 min from Shibakoen, 10 min from Daimon. By car or taxi: 15 min from Tokyo Station, or 25 min from Haneda Airport.

Tel：03-3433-5111

Hours：9:00-23:00

Top Review：A Little Known Shooting Spot For Tokyo Tower

Though Tokyo Tower is beautiful from every angles, I like this picture with unique atmosphere took at the parking area nearby. The parking area is located just near the entrance of 'Ukai', a kaisei restaurant of tofu.

Address：1-6, Shinko, Naka-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa, Japan

Access：Around Minatomirai Station

Top Review：YOKOHAMA CROSS NIGHT ILLUMINATION

At the dome in Shinko Central Square, you can see the illuminations from the inside, and you can experience a new sensation as if you are surrounded by light. The illumination seen from the outside is also beautiful, but the outside world seen from the inside is also glittering.

Address：Shinagawa Prince Hotel 4-10−30 Takanawa, Minato-ku, Tokyo

Access：3 min walk from Shinagawa Station. By car or taxi, 30 min from Haneda Airport, or 20 min from Tokyo Station.

Tel：03-5421-1111

Hours：10:00-22:00

Top Review：An Active Space You Can Feel Close To The Unique Animals

A tunnel under the sea where a manta and a ray swim unhurriedly. Expressive seals, Madagascar day gecko with pretty little gestures and so on. You can see close to these unique animals

Address：Kusatsu Kusatsu-cho, Agatsuma-gun, Gunma

Access：25 min by bus from Naganohara Kusatsu Station to Kusatsu Onsen. By car, 90 min from Maebashi city.

Tel：0279-88-0800

Top Review：A Fantastic Illuminations Of A Hot Spring Town In The Steam Clouds

Kusatsu Onsen district is one of the best hot spring resort in Kanto region. Yu-batake, a source of hot spring, makes the steam clouds rising all day and becomes a best scenic place. At night, the steam clouds and illuminated town produce a fantastic night view.

Address：1-8-1 Shimomeguro, Meguro-ku, Tokyo

Access：5 min walk from Meguro Station. By car or taxi, 15 min from Shinagawa Station, 20 min from Tokyo Station, or 25 min from Haneda Airport.

Tel：03-3491-4111

Top Review：Absolutely Gorgeous Ceiling Paintings & Interiors Lightened In Japanese Mood

Hyakudan-kaidan' (one hundred steps) is a wooden architecture and a tangible cultural property of Tokyo. It was built in the beginning of Showa era as a banquet room. The interiors of the seven Japanese rooms are worth seeing! During summer, the collaboration exhibition with lights like Japanese festivals and artistic lights wins popularity. Some people wear yukata, summer kimono, and enjoy it.

Address：tvk ecom park 6-1 Nishihiranuma-cho Nishi-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa

Access：10 min walk, from Hiranumabashi Station

Tel：045-326-3670

Hours：10:00-18:00

Top Review：Come Into A Fairy Tale World!? A Garden With 1700 Kinds Of Roses

For the perpetual roses, you can see many kinds of roses from spring to autumn. And they plant the different colors of roses for each areas, so you have various impressions every places, which is one of the attractions of this garden.◎Admission fee changes each month. Access: 10 min walk from Hiranumabashi Station of Sotetsu Line. Free shuttle bus from Yokohama Station.

Address：4 Nagai, Yokosuka-shi, Kanagawa

Access：By car, 25 mi from Kinugasa IC. By bus, 15 min from Misakiguchi Station to Soleil Hill

Top Review：Magic Makes Miura Peninsula Into Blue! Soleil Hill With Blooming Nemophila

From the end of April to the beginning of May, beautiful bright Nemophila flowers bloom at Soleil Hill at Miura Peninsula. The Nemophila blue scenery all of your sight will make you feel refreshed!

Address：2-1 Kamizono-cho, Yoyogi, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo

Access：5 min walk from Yoyogi Hachiman Station or Yoyogi Koen Station

Top Review：Instagrammable Shot

Though the cherry blossoms fell this year, you can take shots like this at Yoyogi Park. The lighted night cherry blossom are also beautiful.

Address：1-1-1 Shinko Naka-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa

Top Review：A Skating Rink With A Yokohama Night View

Address：Tagura 940-3, Futtsu-shi, Chiba

Access：By bus, 30 min from JR Kimitsu Station, or 25 min from Sanukimachi Station to Mather Farm. By car, 80 min from Shinjuku Station, or 60 min from Yokohama Station.

Tel：0439-37-3211

Hours：9：30-16：30,10:00-16:00 [Sat・Sun・Holidays]9:00-17:00,9:30-16:00

Top Review：Lively Pink Flower Fields

Mother Farm opens an event 'Pink Breath' from May to September, and about 25 thousand flowers covers the surface of Kanou-zan Mountain. This flower is breeding of　Petunia.

Address：2301 Sannai, Nikko-shi, Tochigi

Tel：0288-54-0560

Hours：8:00-17:00,8:00-16:00

Top Review：World Heritage Including The Gorgeous Yōmei-mon Arch

The most famous thing in Nikko Toshogu Shrine is this Yōmei-mon Arch. It's resistered as a world heritage. This Yomeimon gate has an Edo period architectural style, crafts, sculptures, paintings, and all of the cultures of this age.  

Address：909 Oya-machi, Utsunomiya-shi, Tochigi, Utsunomiya-shi, Tochigi

Access：30 min by bus from JR Utsunomiya Station.

Tel：028-652-1232

Hours：9:00-17:00

Top Review：Like Wandering In A Dungeon! OYA HISTORY MUSEUM With Huge Underground Space

This underground space like the world of game 'DRAGON QUEST' is a stone pit site and about 20,000 square meters. So, you might come across some DRAGON QUEST monsters!

Address：6890 Isohama-cho Oarai-machi, , Higashiibaraki-gun, Ibaraki

Access：Bus:15min from Oarai Station, get off at 'Oarai Isosaki Shrine'. Car: 15min from Mito Oarai IC

Tel：029-267-2637

Top Review：What a Nice Collaboration of the Two! The Sunrise over the Shrine Gate 'Kamiiso Shrine Gate'

The Kamiiso Shrine is famous as a spiritual place. Because it is on seashore and face to due east, the sunrise view looks mystic and attracts visitors. But it is dependent upon the weather.

Address：1 Tokiwa-cho, Mito-shi, Ibaraki

Access：Bus: 20min from JR Mito Station, get off at 'Kairakuen-mae'. Car: 20min from Mito IC.

Tel：029-244-5454　

Hours：6:00-19:00,7:00-18:00

Top Review：A Fantastic Night Of Early Spring! Full-blown Plum Trees And Illuminated Kairaku Garden

I introduce 'night・plum blossoms・fastival'. On March 12, you can enjoy the candle night and skyrockets set off from Senba Lake as well as the illuminated plum trees. Why don't you come to plum festival's finale in Mito to feel the fantastic night of early spring?