Day 2: Explore the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (MOMAT), where you can engage with Japan's modern artistic movements and their social impacts.
Day 3: Visit the Meiji Shrine and the adjacent Yoyogi Park, and attend a cultural festival if your timing aligns.
Day 4: Spend a day at the Tokyo National Museum, focusing on its extensive collection of traditional Japanese art, and participate in a cultural workshop.
Day 5: Conclude with a visit to the Mori Art Museum in Roppongi Hills, which often features exhibitions connecting art, life, and public spaces.
Activities: Museum tours, art exhibitions, cultural workshops, festival attendance.
Tokyo
Akihabara Electric Town—affectionately known as Akiba—is worldly famous for its densely packed buildings crammed full of anime, manga, and game paraphernalia. It's a must-go spot for visitors to Japan who want to bask in geeky otaku culture. Located in the heart of Tokyo, Akihabara Station is easily accessible via the JR Yamanote Line. In the 1930s, this climate turned Akihabara into a future-oriented market region specializing in household electronics, such as washing machines, refrigerators, televisions, and stereos, earning Akihabara the nickname "Electric Town". As household electronics began to lose their …
Tokyo
Hanazono Shrine was originally founded before the start of the Edo period, about 250 meters south of its present-day location. In the Kan'ei era, the shrine was relocated to the gardens of the Owari-Tokugawa family, in an area that had until then been a prolific flower garden, to make space for the villa of a shogun’s vassal. Before the Meiji period, a branch temple of a Shingon Buddhism sect was enshrined with Hanazono’s Shinto shrine, and the Buddhist chief priest served as the manager of both. During the Meiji Restoration …
Note: Each numbered pin on the map correspond to a placemaking project that is in the list of Planned Projects to Visit in this journey.