Tokyo, Around
Day trips from Tokyo
A day outside the city: Kyoto, Hakone and Mount Fuji, the coast.
A day outside the city: Kyoto by Shinkansen, Hakone and the view of Mount Fuji, Nikko, and the coast at Kamakura.
Enoura Observatory
Hiroshi Sugimoto's gallery, noh stage, tea room and gardens on a citrus hillside above Sagami Bay, 35 minutes from Tokyo by Shinkansen, open to a limited number of visitors per session.
Nikkō Tōshō-gū
The shrine to Tokugawa Ieyasu in the cedar forest at Nikko, rebuilt in 1636 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, about 1 hour 50 minutes from Asakusa by Tobu limited express.
The Fuji Course at Kawana Hotel
An 18-hole, par-72 course of 6,701 yards laid out by C.H. Alison in 1936 on the cliffs of the Izu coast, with Mount Fuji across Sagami Bay.
The Hakone Open-Air Museum
Japan's first open-air sculpture museum, opened in 1969: about 120 modern and contemporary sculptures on 70,000 m² of hillside in Hakone, with a pavilion for Picasso.
The MOA Museum of Art in Atami
A museum on a hill 270 m above Atami Bay holding three National Treasures, among them Ogata Kōrin's Red and White Plum Blossoms screens, in galleries redesigned by Hiroshi Sugimoto's studio.
