Tokyo
A city where the neighborhood you choose matters more than trying to stay “central.” Start by deciding what kind of mornings, evenings and train connections you want.
Start near your hotel or in one neighborhood instead of crossing the city before breakfast.
Tokyo becomes easier when two or three nearby neighborhoods share one day.
The best hotel area is often the one that makes dinner and the trip home feel easy when your energy drops.
Use Tokyo as a set of neighborhoods, not one giant checklist.
For a first trip, the useful questions are where to base yourself, how much of the city to group into each day, and whether your airport choice makes the first and last day easier. The guides below go deeper on those decisions rather than repeating a list of attractions.
Start with your accommodation area, then group sightseeing by nearby neighborhoods. This reduces unnecessary cross-city travel and leaves more room for meals, queues and spontaneous stops.
Where should you stay?
Shinjuku, Shibuya, Asakusa, Ueno and Tokyo Station all solve different problems.
東京3–5 nights
Enough time to split the city by area without turning each day into a cross-city commute.