~3h, book ahead — the round trip from the gangway, with the 60-minute margin kept aside.
Wade barefoot through mirrored water rooms of digital koi — the museum foreigners rate above most temples. Timed tickets sell out; book the week before.
A digital art museum you walk through barefoot, with water to your knees in some rooms and mirrored floors in others. The collective behind it argues that art should have no boundary between the work and the viewer, and the wet floors are that argument made literal. Book it; walk-up tickets rarely exist.
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare on a 6-hour call.
The same place is a different day in March and in November. This is the Tokyo year, in order.
Late March into early April, but the date moves by a week or more each year.
Ueno Park is the classic and the most crowded. Early morning is the answer.
Dry, mild, long days — and the May sumo tournament plus Sanja Matsuri in Asakusa.
Warm rain, hydrangeas, and a strong argument for museums and food halls.
Humidity is serious. Start at eight, be indoors from noon, come back out at five.
The hardest month to walk. Fireworks along the Sumida, and air conditioning everywhere.
Each one is a finished day we have walked and timed, with this stop in it. Read the route rather than assembling it yourself.
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
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