Tokyo · Landmarks

Best Statue & Monument in Tokyo

19 places, each checked by our team.

• Captain Tsubasa Statues (Yotsugi and Tateishi) キャプテン翼 銅像（四つ木・立石）Yotsugi / Tateishi — Nine bronze statues of Captain Tsubasa characters, from Tsubasa himself to rival Hyuga Kojiro, around the Katsushika hometown of creator Yoichi…
• Godzilla Head (Shinjuku Toho Building) ゴジラヘッドShinjuku / Kabukicho — A life-size Godzilla head peering over the 8th-floor terrace of the Shinjuku Toho Building in Kabukicho, 'Godzilla Road' frames it perfectly from…
• Godzilla Statue (Hibiya Godzilla Square) ゴジラ像(日比谷ゴジラスクエア)Hibiya / Yurakucho — A 3 m bronze of the 'Shin Godzilla' version of the monster, standing guard in Godzilla Square beside Hibiya Chanter, home turf of Toho, Godzilla's…
• Hachiko and Professor Ueno Statue ハチ公と上野英三郎博士像Yayoi / Hongo — The happy ending Hachiko never had: a 2015 bronze on the University of Tokyo campus showing Professor Ueno coming home at last and Hachi leaping up…
• Hachiko Statue 忠犬ハチ公像Shibuya — The bronze Akita who waited nearly ten years at Shibuya Station for his master to come home, Tokyo's most famous meeting point and a symbol of…
• Ikefukuro Owl Statue いけふくろうIkebukuro — Ikebukuro's stone owl, a pun on the station name (fukuro = owl), installed in the underground concourse in 1987 and the neighbourhood's go-to…
• Kochikame Statues of Kameari こち亀 銅像（亀有）Kameari — Fifteen bronze statues of Ryotsu Kankichi and friends from the record-breaking manga Kochikame, scattered around Kameari Station, the downtown…
• LOVE Sculpture (Shinjuku I-Land) LOVE（新宿アイランド）Nishi-Shinjuku — Robert Indiana's famous red LOVE letters with the tilted O, installed at Shinjuku I-Land Tower in 1995, a playful photo stop amid West Shinjuku's…
• Maman (Roppongi Hills) ママンRoppongi — Louise Bourgeois's 10 m bronze-and-steel spider, legs arched over the plaza at the foot of Mori Tower, carrying a sac of marble eggs, Roppongi…
• Masakado's Head Mound (Masakado-zuka) 将門塚Otemachi — The tiny, much-feared grave of the 10th-century rebel Taira no Masakado, wedged between Otemachi skyscrapers; legend says his severed head flew here…
• Moyai Statue (Shibuya) モヤイ像Shibuya — Shibuya's other meeting point: a big stone head carved on Niijima island in the style of an Easter Island moai, given to the ward in 1980 and…
• Odaiba Statue of Liberty 自由の女神像(お台場)Odaiba — A 12.25 m, 1/7-scale replica of the Statue of Liberty on the Odaiba waterfront, posed in front of Rainbow Bridge and the Tokyo skyline, a quirky,…
• Saigo Takamori Statue 西郷隆盛像Ueno — Ueno Park's beloved bronze of the 'last samurai' Saigo Takamori, depicted in a casual kimono walking his dog, a symbol of Ueno since 1898.
• Sazae-san Statues of Sakura-shinmachi サザエさん銅像（桜新町）Sakura-shinmachi — Twelve bronze statues of the family from Sazae-san, Japan's longest-running TV anime, around Sakura-shinmachi Station, where creator Hasegawa…
• Statue of Kusunoki Masashige 楠木正成像Kokyo Gaien / Marunouchi — A 1900 bronze equestrian statue of the 14th-century loyalist samurai Kusunoki Masashige, rearing on his warhorse at the edge of the Imperial Palace…
• Statue of Tora and Sakura フーテンの寅像と見送るさくら像Shibamata — Bronze statues of Tora-san, hero of the 'Otoko wa Tsurai yo' films, turning back toward his sister Sakura in front of Shibamata Station.
• Tochinishiki Statue at Koiwa Station 栃錦像（小岩駅）Koiwa — A bronze of the 44th yokozuna Tochinishiki, Koiwas hometown hero of the 1950s "Tochi-Waka era" of sumo, standing in the JR Koiwa Station concourse…
• Tokyo Daibutsu 東京大仏（乗蓮寺）Akatsuka / Itabashi — A 13-metre bronze seated Amida Buddha at Jorenji temple in Itabashi, built in 1977 to pray for victims of earthquakes and war.
• Tokyo Memorial Hall (Tokyo Irei-do) 東京都慰霊堂Ryogoku / Yokoami — Ito Chuta's 1930 memorial hall in Yokoamicho Park, with a pagoda-style tower, honouring victims of the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake and the 1945 air…