Tokyo Highlights, Imperial Palace, Kiyosumi Garden, Ukiyo-e Museum

Morning stroll at Imperial Palace located on the old site of Edo Castle and surrounded by moats and stone walls. The Imperial Palace covering 90 hectares of forests plays a role as lung of the metropolis. You can enjoy various flows throughout the years like Shogun used to in East Garden of Imperial Palace.

Tsukiji is lively food park, the right place to encounter traditional Japanese cuisine. Tsukiji market is the best and lively place to buy not only fresh fish but vegetables and fruits, tea, dried fish, pickled vegetables and kitchen utensils. Long line of tourists wanting to eat raw fish on the spot in front of sushi restaurants before noon.

Used to be owned by founder of Mitsubishi, Yataro Iwasaki, now Kiyosumi Garden is a public park designated as the Place of scenic Beauty by Tokyo Government. The garden features innumerable stones used as bridges, stepping stones over the pond, and stones for a dried waterfall. They were collected from nationwide by steamships owned Iwasaki family's company.

Lastly visit the four-story Sumida Hokusai Ukiyo-e museum designed by Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Sejima Kazuya. The museum keeps 1800 collection of wood block prints by Hokusai and his apprentices. You will learn Hokusai's energetic and enthusiastic life for Ukiyo-e. The guest can choose other museum among Sumida Hokusai Ukiyo-e museum, Sword museum and Fukagawa Edo museum (option).