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This is Tokyo‘s highest museum, on the 53rd floor of the Roppongi Hills Mori Tower. Opened in 2003, it features state-of-the-art galleries with 6m-tall (20-ft.) ceilings, controlled natural lighting, and great views of Tokyo. Innovative exhibitions of emerging and established artists from around the world are shown four times a year, with past shows centering on contemporary Asian, African, and Japanese art. Although the installations alone are worth a visit, an extra incentive is the attached Tokyo City View Observatory, usually included in the museum admission and providing eye-popping views over Tokyo. Plan on at least 90 minutes up here.

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The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Contemporary Art is the only museum in Tokyo to introduce foreign and domestic contemporary art in a systematic way. The Permanent Collection Gallery displays some 3,800 works of contemporary art, while the Temporary Exhibition Galleries host a variety of touring exhibitions. The museum includes an Art Information Centre which gathers, classifies and accumulates fine art information and also makes it accessible through various types of media. Attached to the Centre is an Art Library filled with many works on modern and contemporary art.

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Harajuku ( “meadow lodging”) is the common name for the area around Harajuku Station on the Yamanote Line in the Shibuya ward of Tokyo, Japan.

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Prepare to be hit by the 22nd century! With space age buildings, electric cars and fantasy shopping malls, Tokyo‘s newest district is futuristic and surreal. Built on reclaimed land in Tokyo Bay, a monorail links Odaiba to the mainland. Watch out too for the silent couples. As the site of the world’s largest Ferris wheel, it’s also a popular, if not compulsory, dating spot.

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Originally conceived for Expo 2002, the hotel is designed by Swiss architects Sabina Lang and Daniel Baumann. From the roof of the Leipzig Gallery of Contemporary Art the one room hotel has moved to the roof of the Paris Palais de Tokyo. A 320 ton crane was used to lift this 10 ton structure 50 m above the building. Offers stunning views of Eiffel Tower, it is one of the best places to take in the sights of the romantic city of Paris.
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The National Art Center is a unique and innovative art exhibition facility. Opened in 2007 in Roppongi, Tokyo.
The facility has 47,960 m of floor space on a 30,000 m site with four stories above ground and one below. Access is from Nogizaka Station on the Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line.
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Kamakura is an ancient city, just 50 km from Tokyo, but it feels like at the end of the world. There are no high-rise buildings or neon bars there. Once the city was the capital of Japan, during the shogunate from 1185 to 1333, and the fourth-largest city in the world. It’s a wonderful destination, ideal for day trippers from Tokyo, stopping there to enjoy the cooling sea breezes, while they visit the Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines. Photo by: kiri-fuda
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