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Areas we explored in this episode:
00:38 Shinbashi
02:24 Kasumigaseki
02:30 Otemachi
04:01 Akasaka-mitsuke
06:16 Roppongi
10:31 Shibuya
12:40 Ikejiri-ohashi
13:21 Meguro River
17:07 Ebisu
20:10 Nishi-Azabu
27:56 Tokyo Midtown
37:26 Roppongi
38:27 Tokyo Tower
29:47 Shiba Park
About Roppongi
With its hard-partying weekends and melting pot of cultures, Roppongi has gained a reputation as an occasionally infamous pocket of Tokyo . However, with its vast selection of art galleries, high-end shopping boutiques, fascinating historical sites, and incredible food, this upscale neighborhood has plenty to offer visitors of every kind, day or night.
About Meguro River
The Meguro River meanders nearly 8 kilometers through several chic neighborhoods before emptying into Tokyo Bay. Generously landscaped walking paths along its banks and easy access to drinking and dining make it popular year-round.
Much of the Meguro Riverside area provides pleasant walking and a mellow atmosphere that marks a contrast to the capital’s urban buzz. The stretch between Nakameguro and Gotanda Stations is renowned for its pretty greenery and easy access to the hip Nakameguro neighborhood with its many restaurants and bars.
Just beside the river, the Meguro Museum of Art focuses on modern Japanese artists and is worth checking out if you get caught in the rain. So is the quirky, squirmy Tokyo Parasite Museum just a couple blocks from the river. The gift shop alone is worth a look.
Further downstream at the edge of Tokyo Bay, Tennozu Isle offers galleries, chic cafes, and waterside dining, including at T.Y. Harbor, a popular brewery restaurant.
The Meguro River is also one of Tokyo’s premier cherry blossom viewing spots. Over a kilometer of trees lining the paths on either side of the river in Nakameguro burst into bloom at the end of March and beginning of April, forming a corridor of flower clouds above the river.
When the sun goes down, the paper lanterns strung along the river come on during the Nakameguro Sakura Festival when bands of locals celebrate spring with feasting and drinking on blue tarps beneath the blossoms. Grab a beer from one of the street stalls and bask in the glow of Japan at its most laid back.
Wintertime has its own charm when a stretch of the river near Gotanda Station comes alive with an impressive holiday lights display.
Roppongi Area Guide
About Shiba Park
Established in 1873, Shiba Park is one of the oldest parks in Japan, and is still home to several ancient trees including a giant ginkgo believed to have been planted by the shogun Iemitsu Tokugawa. You can visit Shiba Tosho-gu Shrine and nearby Tokyo Tower—technically not in the park—providing you with an interesting contrast of the traditional and modern.
The park is particularly beautiful during the cherry blossom and autumn seasons, when the Momiji-dani (Autumn Leaf Valley) section comes alive with vivid gold and red leaves.
About Tokyo Tower
Seeing the bold red and white stripes of Tokyo Tower will tell you that you have, at last, arrived in Metropolitan Tokyo.
Tokyo Tower is both an active broadcasting facility and an ideal spot for travelers to take in the dazzling cityscape below. The structure’s modernist charm can be appreciated from the outside as it lights up at night, but the real thrill comes as you climb to the top to catch dynamic views of the city.
At the base of the tower, you’ll find a shopping complex called Foot Town, which features an array of international shops and restaurants, and even an aquarium and an anime theme park.
Due to construction work, one side of the main observation deck (the lower deck) will be closed through late 2019. The other three sides are still open.
Renovation work recently finished on the top deck and it fully reopened in March 2019.
About Ebisu
Ebisu (恵比寿) is major district of Shibuya-ku in Tokyo, Japan. It was developed on the site of a former brewery and is now home to Yebisu Garden Place. It is renowned for its high concentration of bars and restaurants.
Ebisu was founded around 1928 as a community developed around the Japan Beer Brewery Company (now Sapporo Breweries Limited) facilities which began brewing Yebisu Beer in 1890.
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