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Best Activities & Experiences in Tokyo

33 places, each checked by our team.

• @home cafe Akihabara Main Store ＠ほぉ～むカフェ 本店Akihabara — Akihabara's best-known maid café: maids greet you as 'master' or 'princess', draw on your omurice in ketchup and lead the room in 'moe moe kyun'…
• ANA Blue Hangar Tour ANA Blue Hangar TourHaneda Airport — All Nippon Airways' free maintenance-hangar tour at Haneda: a lecture, an exhibition hall and a walk through the vast hangars where ANA's…
• Canyons Okutama (Canyoning & Packrafting) キャニオンズ 奥多摩ベースOkutama — Tokyo's own adventure base in the forested Okutama valley: slide down natural rock chutes and jump into clear pools on a guided canyoning trip, or…
• Cat Cafe MOCHA Harajuku 猫カフェ MOCHA 原宿店Harajuku — A bright, spacious cat café directly opposite Harajuku Station, where dozens of breed cats lounge on climbing towers and you pay by the 10 minutes…
• COCOMO Asakusa Kimono & Maiko Makeover 浅草着物レンタル cocomoAsakusa — A small Asakusa studio for those who want more than a rental: alongside regular kimono, COCOMO offers full maiko, geisha and oiran makeovers with…
• Cooking Sun Tokyo クッキングサン 東京Shinanomachi / Yotsuya — A small English-language cooking school in a residential area of Shinjuku, teaching sushi, wagyu and home-style Japanese dishes.
• Ebisuya Rickshaw (Asakusa) 人力車 えびす屋 浅草店Asakusa — Ride a jinrikisha through Asakusa's backstreets pulled by a fit, chatty guide who doubles as photographer and historian, the classic Asakusa splurge.
• Edo Tokyo Soba no Kai (Soba-Making Class) 江戸東京そばの会Tateishi / Katsushika — A soba school in Katsushika that has trained hundreds of noodle makers, offering a visitor workshop where you mix, knead, roll and cut buckwheat…
• Ganso Shokuhin Sample-ya Kappabashi (Food Sample Workshop) 元祖食品サンプル屋 合羽橋店Kappabashi — Make your own plastic-looking food replicas, wax tempura and a head of lettuce, at the shop of the company that invented Japan's fake-food displays,…
• Happo-en Mu-an Tea House 八芳園 茶室「夢庵」Shirokanedai — A century-old tea house in Happo-en's lovely Japanese garden in Shirokanedai, where you can drop in for matcha and a seasonal sweet or book a formal…
• Hato Bus Tours はとバスTokyo Station / Marunouchi — Tokyo's best-known sightseeing bus company, running English-guided half-day and full-day tours of the city and day trips to Mount Fuji.
• HiSUi TOKYO (Japanese Culture Experiences) HiSUi TOKYOGinza — A refined Ginza studio teaching tea ceremony, calligraphy, kimono dressing, flower arrangement, Japanese dance and samurai sword etiquette in…
• Ichigaya Fish Center 市ヶ谷フィッシュセンターIchigaya — Fishing ponds on the old castle moat right below Ichigaya Station, where commuters watch you hook carp while trains rumble past, a quirky, cheap,…
• Ishikawa Brewery (Sake Brewery Tour) 石川酒造Fussa — A sake and craft-beer brewery in Fussa, founded in 1863, with storehouses, an ancient zelkova tree, an English tasting tour and an on-site Italian…
• JAL SKY MUSEUM (JAL Hangar Tour) JAL工場見学 SKY MUSEUMHaneda Airport — Japan Airlines' maintenance-base tour at Haneda: an aviation museum with uniforms, cockpits and history, then a walk onto the hangar floor beneath…
• Japan Sake and Shochu Information Center 日本の酒情報館Toranomon / Shimbashi — A free information centre run by the Japan Sake and Shochu Makers Association, with a cheap tasting bar of about 50 sake, shochu and awamori.
• Kimono Rental VASARA Asakusa Sumidagawa 着物レンタルVASARA 浅草隅田川店Asakusa — One of Asakusa's biggest kimono rental chains, on the 9th floor of a building right by Azumabashi bridge and Asakusa Station. Pick a kimono and obi…
• Musashi Ninja Clan Dojo 武蔵一族Asakusa / Kappabashi — A small, serious ninja and samurai dojo on Kappabashi street, run by a family lineage of martial artists, offering private-feeling sessions of…
• Ninja Trick House in Tokyo 手裏剣道場 新宿忍者からくり屋敷Shinjuku / Kabukicho — A hands-on ninja experience hidden in a Kabukicho back street, where an instructor teaches shuriken throwing, sword moves and ninja history.
• Ozu Washi (Washi Paper-Making) 小津和紙Nihonbashi — A paper merchant in Nihonbashi since 1653 with a free gallery, a vast washi shop and a small studio where you scoop and shake your own sheet of…
• Samurai Ninja Museum Tokyo (Asakusa) サムライ忍者ミュージアム東京 浅草Asakusa / Kappabashi — A hands-on museum near Kappabashi where an English-speaking guide walks you through samurai armour and swords, then lets you try on armour, hold a…
• Shinohara Furin Honpo (Edo Wind Chimes) 篠原風鈴本舗Edogawa — A century-old family workshop in Edogawa where you blow your own glass wind chime from molten glass and paint it from the inside, the sound of a…
• Shunkaen Bonsai Museum 春花園BONSAI美術館Edogawa — The private garden-museum of bonsai master Kunio Kobayashi, with around a thousand trees, some many centuries old, and a workshop where you create…
• Sogetsu Kaikan (Ikebana International Class) 草月会館Akasaka / Aoyama — Headquarters of the avant-garde Sogetsu school of ikebana, whose Monday-morning International Class lets visitors learn flower arranging in English…
• STREET KART Tokyo Bay STREET KART 東京ベイShinkiba / Tokyo Bay — Drive a street-legal go-kart through real Tokyo traffic in costume, crossing Rainbow Bridge on the Tokyo Bay route, a bucket-list thrill, but only…
• Sumida Edo Kiriko-kan すみだ江戸切子館Kinshicho — A craftsman's shop-workshop near Kinshicho where you cut traditional Edo kiriko patterns into a glass on a diamond wheel, then take your sparkling…
• Symphony Cruise (Tokyo Bay) シンフォニー クルーズTakeshiba / Hinode — Elegant restaurant cruises from Hinode Pier around Tokyo Bay, under Rainbow Bridge and past Odaiba, with French or Italian lunch, sunset and dinner…
• TAIKO-LAB Aoyama (Wadaiko Drumming) TAIKO-LAB 青山Aoyama — Pound big Japanese taiko drums in a soundproofed studio near Gaienmae with a professional drummer, a sweaty, joyful hour that needs no musical…
• Tokyo Cruise (Asakusa Pier) TOKYO CRUISE 浅草乗船場Asakusa — The classic Sumida River water bus from Asakusa down to Hama-rikyu, Hinode and Odaiba, including Leiji Matsumoto's futuristic Himiko and Hotaluna…
• Tokyo Great Cycling Tour 東京グレートサイクリングツアーKayabacho / Shinkawa — Small-group guided bike tours from a base near Hatchobori, following quiet riverside paths to Tsukiji, Tsukishima, Odaiba, the Imperial Palace and…
• Tokyo Mizube Cruising Line 東京水辺ラインAsakusa / Sumida River — A public water bus run by the Tokyo Metropolitan Park Association, linking Asakusa, Ryogoku and Odaiba along the Sumida River and Tokyo Bay.
• Wanariya (Indigo Dyeing & Weaving) 和なり屋Asakusa / Senzoku — A friendly Asakusa-area workshop where you hand-dye a handkerchief, tenugui, T-shirt or stole in natural indigo, watching the cloth turn from green…
• Yakatabune Funasei (Shinagawa) 屋形船 船清Shinagawa — A long-established yakatabune operator in old Shinagawa whose shared-boat dinners let couples and small groups join a traditional tatami houseboat…