Enoura Observatory
Hiroshi Sugimoto's gallery, noh stage, tea room and gardens on a citrus hillside above Sagami Bay, reached from Tokyo by Shinkansen to Odawara and a local train, open to a limited number of visitors per session.
Checked 7 November
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Day trips from Tokyo
A day outside the city: Kyoto, Hakone and Mount Fuji, the coast.
Five recommendations, each checked every 7 days.
Hakuuntei at Sankeien Garden
Hara Sankei's 1920 retirement house in the inner garden of Sankeien, Yokohama: closed to visitors, hired by the half or full day, with a 30-mat hall for about 20.
Checked 7 November
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.
Checked 3 November
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-nada.
Checked 5 November
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.
Checked 7 November
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A day outside the city: Kyoto by Shinkansen, Hakone and the view of Mount Fuji, Nikko, and the coast at Kamakura.