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The rainy-day Tokyo, Tokyo

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The rainy-day Tokyo

Wet weather — go underground and stay there. Timed from the gangway and back.

6 hr door to door5 stopsA wet day
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Photo: Basile Morin / CC BY-SA 4.0
Door to door
6 hr
From the gangway and back
Best for
A wet day
Wet weather — go underground and stay there
Room to spare
None
Fits an 8-hour stop with nothing to add (off the ship 30 minutes after arrival, back at the gangway an hour before all-aboard). A longer call gives you the extra time; on this one, do not add a stop.
What it costs
~¥1,200 pp
Museum entry ~¥1,000.
Booking
Nothing
Every stop here takes walk-ups

Timed from the gangway with the port's official timetables · updated · Takumi Yamada

Numbers follow the route below. Pins are the places themselves; walking lines are not drawn because the best way between two stops can change with the tram, the tide or the weather.

The route

How the day runs

Times are from the moment you step off, not from the scheduled arrival. Everything shifts if your ship is late; the order does not.

  1. +0:00
    Train in from the terminal

    Photograph your return connection before you start

  2. +0:45
    Tokyo National Museum, Ueno

    The largest collection of Japanese art anywhere, and entirely indoors. Closed Mondays (on a holiday Monday it opens and closes the next weekday): on those days spend the time in the Ginza department stores instead. Free at 70+ with ID

    What you will see here
  3. +2:45
    Depachika lunch at a department store food hall

    A basement the size of a supermarket, all of it prepared food

    What you will see here
    Tsukiji Outer Market crawl, Tokyo
    Photo: Dale Cruse - 12M views / CC BY 2.0
  4. +4:00
    Ginza arcades and the Kabuki-za

    Single acts vary in length. No shows between monthly runs (26 Nov–1 Dec, 26 Dec–1 Jan, 27 Jan–1 Feb, 27–28 Feb) or on the dark days 9 and 17 Nov, 9 and 17 Dec, 8 and 18 Jan, 9 and 18 Feb. Check kabukiweb.net for your date

    What you will see hereFull guide: Imperial Palace East Gardens
  5. +5:15
    Head back

    Rain slows Tokyo trains; leave earlier than feels necessary

    What you will see here
The margin is not optional. This route ends an hour before all-aboard on purpose. If you are running late, drop the last stop, not the hour.
What the day looks like

Tokyo, along this route

Real photographs of the places above and the streets between them. Every one is credited.

Hiroshige woodblock print of Nihonbashi bridge in Edo, Tokyo
Hiroshige woodblock print of Nihonbashi bridge in EdoPhoto: Utagawa Hiroshige / Public domain
A woodblock print of two sumo wrestlers facing off with a referee, Tokyo
A woodblock print of two sumo wrestlers facing off with a refereePhoto: Utagawa Kuniyoshi / Public domain
A plate of nigiri sushi at Tsukiji, Tokyo
A plate of nigiri sushi at Tsukiji, TokyoPhoto: Dale Cruse - 12M views / CC BY 2.0
The main hall of Senso-ji temple in Asakusa, Tokyo
The main hall of Senso-ji temple in Asakusa, TokyoPhoto: Supanut Arunoprayote / CC BY 4.0
The Kabuki-za theatre in Ginza, Tokyo
The Kabuki-za theatre in Ginza, TokyoPhoto: dozodomo / CC BY-SA 2.0
Tsukiji Outer Market, Tokyo
Tsukiji Outer MarketPhoto: Dale Cruse - 12M views / CC BY 2.0
Different hours, different day

The other routes in Tokyo

The terminal islandNeeds a 4.5-hour call · ~2.5hEmbarkation eve or short windows — Odaiba only; add teamLab in Toyosu only with a timed ticket and a call of 5 hours or moreThe Asakusa classicNeeds a 7.5-hour call · ~5.5hOne district done well — the oldest Tokyo there isThe first-timer's TokyoNeeds a 10.5-hour call · ~8.5hLong calls — three Tokyos in one loop
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