Tokyo · Landmarks

Best Landmark & Tower in Tokyo

35 places, each checked by our team.

• Asahi Beer Hall and Golden Flame アサヒビール本社・スーパードライホール（金のオブジェ）Azumabashi / Asakusa — Philippe Starck's black Super Dry Hall with its 300-plus-tonne golden 'flame' on the roof, next to Asahi's golden beer-glass tower: the cheekiest…
• Azabudai Hills Mori JP Tower 麻布台ヒルズ森JPタワーAzabudai / Roppongi — At about 325 m, the tallest building in Japan since 2023: Pelli Clarke & Partners' faceted glass tower rising above Thomas Heatherwick's undulating,…
• Bank of Japan Head Office 日本銀行本店本館Nihonbashi — Tatsuno Kingo's 1896 neo-Baroque stone bank, often called the first major Western-style building designed by a Japanese architect, with free guided…
• Den-en-chofu Old Station Building 田園調布駅 旧駅舎Den-en-chofu — The red-roofed, mansard-style 1923 station house of Tokyo's first garden suburb, faithfully rebuilt in 2000 as the centrepiece of the fan of…
• GINZA PLACE 銀座プレイスGinza — White lattice-clad building on the Ginza 4-chome crossing, home to the Nissan Crossing car gallery and Sony's showroom.
• Ginza Sony Park 銀座ソニーパークGinza — Sony's 2025 'building as park' at the Sukiyabashi crossing: a deliberately low, open, raw-concrete structure with stepped open-air floors, free…
• Himonya Catholic Church (Salesian Church) カトリック碑文谷教会（サレジオ教会）Himonya / Meguro — Romanesque-style Salesian church in residential Meguro, admired for its stained glass and bell tower and a popular wedding venue.
• Holy Resurrection Cathedral (Nikolai-do) 東京復活大聖堂（ニコライ堂）Ochanomizu / Kanda Surugadai — Tokyo's green-domed Russian Orthodox cathedral, a Byzantine landmark from 1891 on the Kanda hilltop, with a jewel-like iconostasis you can see…
• Japan National Stadium 国立競技場Sendagaya / Gaien — Kengo Kuma's timber-eaved stadium built for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, wrapped in cedar louvres sourced from all 47 prefectures; stadium tours take…
• Kudan Kaikan Terrace 九段会館テラスKudanminami — A 1934 'Imperial Crown' style building with a Japanese tiled roof over a Western facade, the 1936 martial-law headquarters during the February 26…
• Kyu-Iwasaki-tei Gardens 旧岩崎邸庭園Ikenohata / Yushima — Josiah Conder's 1896 Jacobean mansion for the Iwasaki family of Mitsubishi, with a Swiss-chalet billiard house reached by a secret tunnel and a…
• Maison Hermes Ginza 銀座メゾンエルメスGinza — Renzo Piano's 2001 tower of thousands of handmade glass blocks that glows like a paper lantern at night, with a free contemporary art gallery, Le…
• Mausoleum of Emperor Shōwa 武蔵陵墓地（昭和天皇 武蔵野陵）Takao / Hachioji — Imperial burial ground in a cedar-lined park in Hachioji, where Emperors Taisho and Showa and their empresses are laid to rest.
• Meiji Seimeikan 明治生命館Marunouchi — A 1934 classical office building with a giant Corinthian colonnade facing the palace moat, the first Showa-era building to become an Important…
• National Diet Building 国会議事堂Nagatacho — Japan's granite parliament with its stepped-pyramid central tower, completed in 1936; a free weekday tour of the House of Councillors takes you into…
• Nippon Budokan 日本武道館Kudan / Kitanomaru — The octagonal hall built for judo at the 1964 Olympics, its roof modelled on the Yumedono of Horyu-ji, and later the stage where the Beatles played…
• NTT Docomo Yoyogi Building NTTドコモ代々木ビルSendagaya / Shinjuku South — Tokyo's 'Empire State Building': a 240 m Art Deco-inspired telecom tower with a giant clock, rising over the trees south of Shinjuku and visible…
• Old Cathedral of St. Joseph カトリック築地教会Tsukiji / Akashicho — Tokyo's oldest Catholic parish, in the former foreign settlement of Tsukiji, with a Greek temple-style facade of Doric columns.
• Old Iwabuchi Watergate 旧岩淵水門（赤水門）Akabane / Shimo — Red 1924 sluice gate on the Arakawa River, built under engineer Aoyama Akira who had worked on the Panama Canal, now a riverside landmark.
• Prada Aoyama プラダ 青山店Minami-Aoyama — Herzog & de Meuron's 2003 crystal: a six-storey building wrapped entirely in a lattice of rhombus-shaped glass panes, some bulging outward and some…
• Red Brick Building of the Ministry of Justice 法務省旧本館（赤れんが棟）Kasumigaseki — A German neo-Baroque red-brick ministry from 1895 by Ende and Boeckmann, standing amid Kasumigaseki's grey towers, with a small free museum of…
• Rikkyo University Main Building (Morris Hall) 立教大学 本館（モリス館）Nishi-Ikebukuro — An ivy-covered red-brick Collegiate Gothic quad from 1919 in the middle of Ikebukuro, best known for the giant Himalayan cedars lit as Christmas…
• Shibuya Scramble Crossing 渋谷スクランブル交差点Shibuya — The world's most famous pedestrian crossing: when all the lights turn red for cars, up to 3,000 people surge from five directions at once under…
• SHIBUYA109 SHIBUYA109渋谷店Shibuya — The silver cylinder at the fork of Dogenzaka, birthplace of Japanese gyaru fashion since 1979 and still the visual anchor of Shibuya's busiest corner.
• Shinjuku Sumitomo Building (Sankaku Hiroba) 新宿住友ビル（三角広場）Nishi-Shinjuku — The 1974 'Sankaku Building', a 210 m triangular tower with a hollow core, reborn in 2020 with a vast glass-roofed public atrium at its feet, one of…
• Shizuoka Press and Broadcasting Center 静岡新聞・静岡放送ビルGinza / Shimbashi — Kenzo Tange's 1967 Metabolist tower in Ginza: a single cylindrical core with office boxes cantilevered off it, still standing beside the expressway…
• Sogakudo Concert Hall of the Former Tokyo Music School 旧東京音楽学校奏楽堂Ueno Park — Japan's oldest Western-style concert hall, an 1890 wooden building in Ueno Park where composer Taki Rentaro performed, with a restored hall and pipe…
• St. Ignatius Catholic Church カトリック麹町 聖イグナチオ教会Yotsuya — Jesuit parish church beside Yotsuya Station and Sophia University, whose 1999 elliptical main church is one of Tokyo's most striking modern churches.
• Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium 東京体育館Sendagaya — Fumihiko Maki's 1990 sports complex, whose giant stainless-steel main arena roof looks like a samurai helmet or a giant beetle, beside the National…
• Tokyo Midtown 東京ミッドタウンRoppongi — The 2007 Roppongi complex built on a former Defense Agency site: SOM's 248 m Midtown Tower, a glass-roofed galleria, two design museums and a huge…
• Tokyo Station Marunouchi Building 東京駅丸の内駅舎Marunouchi — Tatsuno Kingo's grand 1914 red-brick station, restored in 2012 with its twin domes and ornate plaster ceilings, a working hub and Tokyo's most…
• Tokyo Tower 東京タワーShiba Park — The red-and-white 333 m Eiffel-inspired icon of postwar Tokyo, with a 150 m Main Deck, a glass-mirrored 250 m Top Deck and a glowing silhouette that…
• Toranomon Hills 虎ノ門ヒルズToranomon — Mori Building's four-tower district over a brand-new subway station, crowned by OMA's 266 m Station Tower and its TOKYO NODE event spaces, sky…
• Waseda University Okuma Auditorium 早稲田大学 大隈記念講堂Waseda — Waseda's 1927 Gothic-Romanesque auditorium with an asymmetric clock tower 125 shaku tall, a nod to founder Okuma Shigenobu's belief that people…
• Yasuda Auditorium and University of Tokyo Hongo Campus 東京大学 安田講堂・本郷キャンパスHongo — Japan's top university, with the 1925 brick clock tower of Yasuda Auditorium, Sanshiro Pond, gothic-style lecture halls, a ginkgo avenue that blazes…