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Whether for a first date or for couples who have gotten stuck in a rut with their date plans, here are some of the best places and activities for couples to enjoy the charms of Tokyo together. Here are some great date spots and activities for you and your partner to enjoy the charms of Tokyo together.
Museums in Tokyo
1,Sumida Hokusai Museum
This museum mainly exhibits the works of Hokusai Katsushika, who is highly regarded as a world-class painter. Katsushika Hokusai spent most of his 90-year life in Sumida Ward, where this museum is located. The building designed by Kazuyo Sejima, an architect active in Japan and abroad, is also noteworthy.
📍 2-7-2 Kamezawa, Sumida-ku
👉Sumida Hokusai Museum (official website)
2,Suntory Museum of Art
The Suntory Museum of Art, which has been enhancing its collection in parallel with its exhibition activities based on the basic philosophy of “beauty in daily life,” focuses on special exhibitions. The museum has a collection of approximately 3,000 works ranging from Japanese antiques such as paintings, ceramics, lacquerware, and textiles to glass from the East and West.
📍 Tokyo Midtown Galleria 3F, 9-7-4 Akasaka, Minato-ku
👉Suntory Museum of Art (official website)
3,Nezu Museum
The Nezu Museum was created to preserve and exhibit the collection of Japanese and Oriental antiques collected by Kaichiro Nezu I, a businessman who served as president of Tobu Railway Company. When enjoying the exhibitions, be sure to take note of the view of the four seasons through the glass of the museum’s café, NEZUCAFÉ.
📍 6-5-1 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku
👉Nezu Museum of Art (official website)
4, Yamatane Museum of Art
Opened in 1966 as the nation’s first museum specializing in Japanese-style painting. The museum’s collection consists of about 1,800 works of modern and contemporary Japanese paintings from the Meiji period to the present, including old paintings, ukiyoe, and oil paintings.
📍 3-12-36 Hiroo, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Yamatane Museum of Art (official website)
5,Ota Memorial Museum of Art
One of the few museums in central Tokyo that specializes in Ukiyo-e. Various themes are set each month and Ukiyo-e works are exhibited accordingly. The museum is only a 5-minute walk from Harajuku.
📍 1-10-10 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku
👉Ohta Memorial Museum of Art (official website)
6, Tokyo National Museum
The Tokyo National Museum has a total of six exhibition halls: the Honkan, which opened in 1938 and is a representative building of the “Imperial Crown Style,” has been designated an Important Cultural Property. The “Comprehensive Cultural Exhibition” is held almost every week, changing exhibits in one of the exhibition rooms about 300 times a year, so visitors can make new discoveries no matter how many times they visit.
📍 13-9 Ueno Koen, Taito-ku
👉Tokyo National Museum Official Website
7, Mori Art Museum
A contemporary art museum located on the top level of Mori Tower. The museum is open until 22:00 on Mondays, Wednesdays through Sundays during exhibition periods, making it a great place to visit after work on weekdays. Art-loving couples should also attend the regularly scheduled gallery talks and other learning programs.
📍 Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, 6-10-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku
👉MORI ART MUSEUM Official Website
8, teamLab Planets TOKYO DMM
teamLab is a Japanese art collective whose works have been exhibited in museums around the world, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles and the New South Wales State Museum. Located a minute’s walk from Shin Toyosu Station, this huge museum allows visitors to go barefoot and immerse themselves in the artwork together with other visitors. The artwork changes in tandem with the visitor’s own movements, a feature unique to teamLab Planets, until the end of 2027; in January 2024, Epson TeamLab Borderless reopened in Azabudai Hills.
Click here for 🎫Tickets
📍 6-1-16 Toyosu, Koto-ku
9, poop museum tokyo
The Poop Museum is the world’s only “poop” themed interactive entertainment facility that originated in Japan! The museum is a photogenic space with a poop volcano where small poop pops out from a giant object and cute and sparkling poop. There is also a shit game corner where you can enjoy poop games and 12 unique poop animals!
Click here for 🎫 tickets
📍 DiverCity Tokyo Plaza 2F 1-1-10 Aomi, Koto-ku, Tokyo
Where you can enjoy live music and performances
1, Candlelight Concert
Regularly held concerts where you can listen to music in the light of more than 1,000 LED candles that envelop the venue.
The concerts have been held at venues around the world, featuring not only classical music, but also jazz, soul, blues, and the latest pop music, and have been well received by people who are unfamiliar with music appreciation.
Click here for 🎫Candlelight concert tickets.
2,Blue Note Place
Blue Note Japan’s newest dining venue opened in Yebisu Garden Place in 2022. Located on the site of the former Beer Station Ebisu, the large two-story atrium with over 200 seats is equipped with a dining room, bar, lounge, private rooms, and terrace. Live music and DJ play can be enjoyed along with modern American-themed dining.
📍 4-20-4 Ebisu, Shibuya-ku
👉BLUE NOTE PLACE official website
3,COTTON CLUB
COTTON CLUB is a legendary club in Harlem, N.Y. in the 1920s during the Prohibition Era that gave birth to some of the biggest stars in music history, including Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, and Lena Horne. The club offers a la carte as well as dinner courses, along with live performances by talented artists, mainly from overseas.
📍 Tokyo Building TOKIA 2F, 2-7-3 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku
👉COTTON CLUB official website
4,Billboard Live TOKYO
With over 100 years of history, Billboard is the world’s most trusted music brand, and top-class artists from Japan and around the world perform here. The casual area on the 4th and 5th floors offers counter seating with one drink.
📍 Tokyo Midtown Garden Terrace 4F, 9-7-4 Akasaka, Minato-ku
Billboard Live TOKYO official website
5, Bar & Jazz Lounge Maduro (Grand Hyatt Tokyo)
A bar and jazz lounge where you can enjoy live music and cigars by artists from overseas. In addition to its signature cocktail, the Mojito, and other cocktails and rare whiskeys, the bar offers a variety of tapas dishes and desserts.
📍 Grand Hyatt Tokyo 4F, 6-10-3 Roppongi, Minato-ku
👉Bar & Jazz Lounge Maduro Official Website
6, JZ Brat SOUND OF TOKYO
A jazz bar located on the tower side terrace on the 2nd floor of the Cerulean Tower Tokyu Hotel, about a 5-minute walk from Shibuya Station. While listening to live music, mainly by Japanese musicians, ranging from standard jazz to fusion, soul, and pops, you can enjoy French-based dishes using seasonal vegetables, fish and meat dishes, and desserts prepared by the patissier together.
📍 2F Cerulean Tower Tokyu Hotel, 26-1 Sakuragaoka-cho, Shibuya-ku
👉JZ Brat SOUND OF TOKYO official website
Activities & Places to visit in Tokyo
1, Tokyo Bay Cruising Restaurant Symphony
This is the only place where you can experience a route that passes under two bridges, the Rainbow Bridge and the Tokyo Gate Bridge. Lunch cruise, afternoon cruise, sunset cruise, and dinner cruise are available at different times to enjoy cruising with a meal.
👉Tokyo Bay Cruising Restaurant Symphony Official Website
2, Meiji Shrine
A shrine dedicated to Emperor Meiji and Empress Dowager Shoken. The shrine is known for attracting the largest number of worshippers in Japan every year during Hatsumode (New Year’s visit). The vast 700,000 square meter shrine grove is a man-made forest created with the aim of creating an “eternal grove” by planting approximately 100,000 trees donated by people from all over Japan for the construction of Meiji Jingu Shrine. The café on the premises is also recommended.
📍 1-1 Yoyogi-Jinen-cho, Shibuya-ku
👉Meiji Jingu official website
3, Shinjuku Gyoen
After the Meiji Restoration, a state-run agricultural experiment station was established, and after serving as the Imperial Household Ministry’s official estate, the garden was created as an imperial garden in 1906. Designed by a French landscape architect, the garden skillfully combines a European-style formal garden, a landscape garden, and a Japanese garden, and is a representative modern Western garden of the Meiji era and one of the few masterpieces of landscape gardens in Japan.
📍 11 Naito-cho, Shinjuku-ku
👉Shinjuku Gyoen official website
4,Kasai Rinkai Park
The park was created by arranging five zones under the theme of “green, water, and human interaction” in Tokyo Bay, where the navy blue sea spreads out. 1994 saw the opening of the Aviary Zone, 1995 saw the opening of the Crystal View observation rest house, and 2001 saw the opening of the Ferris wheel, which is 117 meters high and offers a 17-minute walk through the air. Located a short distance from central Tokyo, the park is recommended for couples who want to avoid crowds.
📍 6 Rinkai-cho, Edogawa-ku
👉Kasai Rinkai Park official website
5, Cosmo Planetarium Shibuya
The Cosmo Planetarium Shibuya offers a wide variety of programs, such as the “Starry Music Series,” a healing program, and “Tonight’s Star Tour,” in which you can enjoy a commentary on constellations full of individuality. 8 starry sky commentators are in charge of random projections every day.
23-21 Sakuragaoka-cho, Shibuya-ku
Cosmo Planetarium Shibuya official website
6,Sumida Aquarium
This aquarium is located in Tokyo Skytree. The aquarium is themed on the seas of the Ogasawara Islands and features the “Ogasawara Large Tank,” where colorful fish swim in schools, one of the largest open tanks in Japan, where you can feel penguins and fur seals breathing close to you, and the “Big Petri dish,” a fantastic basin tank with about 500 water jellyfish floating in it. When visiting, we recommend that you purchase tickets in advance via the website to ensure smooth entry on the date and time of your choice.
📍 Tokyo Skytree Town Solamachi 5F, 6F, 1-1-2 Oshiage, Sumida-ku, Tokyo
👉Sumida Aquarium official website
7, Akasaka Rikyu (State Guest House)
Built in 1909, Akasaka Rikyu is the only neo-baroque palace building in Japan, and after a major renovation in 2009, it was designated as a national treasure as one of the most representative examples of Japanese architecture. It has hosted many kings, presidents, and prime ministers, and has also been used as a venue for international conferences such as major country summits. There are four visiting courses: Honkan and garden (main garden and front garden), Japanese-style annex, Honkan and garden, Japanese-style annex, garden, and garden.
📍 2-1-1 Motoakasaka, Minato-ku
Akasaka Rikyu Official Website
8, SHIBUYA SKY
The observation deck is located 229 meters above Shibuya and consists of three zones: the “SKY GATE” transitional space on the 14th to 45th floors, the “SKY GALLERY” indoor observation corridor on the 46th floor, and the “SKY STAGE” rooftop observation deck. 46th floor has a roof-top bar that is open for limited periods.
2-24-12 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
The Roof Shibuya Sky official website
9 ,Tokyo Tower Observation Deck
Why not take the opportunity of a date to visit Tokyo Tower, which is a rare opportunity to climb if you live in Tokyo? Climbing the main deck, located 150 meters above the ground, offers a 360° panoramic view of the city of Tokyo. There is an outside stairway entrance to the main deck, and outdoor events are regularly held in “Foot Town” where you can look directly up the tower’s legs.
📍 4-2-8 Shiba Koen, Minato-ku
👉Click here for Tokyo Tower Observation Deck admission ticket
10, Nazotoki Street Walk
Asakusa is dotted with so many attractions that it is impossible to visit in a single day, so you will have a hard time deciding where to go. What we recommend is the “Nazotoki Machiaruki Game,” in which you solve riddles while strolling through the city. Visitors solve the riddles while taking pictures of their favorite streetscapes, such as historical buildings, the end of a narrow alley, or a cozy retro coffee shop. It can also be experienced in Yokohama.
📍 Real Escape Game CROSSING Asakusa (1-17-2 Azumabashi, Sumida-ku, Tokyo)
For official tickets to 🎫Asakusa, click here.
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