Top Things to do in Minato
Things to do in Minato, Kanto: The Best Nature & Parks
The Minato district of Toyko is home to a few excellent museums, including the Nezu Museum of antiques and the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum. Tokyo City View, an observation area on the 52nd floor of the Mori Tower, offers an amazing panoramic view of the entire metropolitan area.
Restaurants in Minato
1. Happo-en Garden
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 552 reviews
Happo-en excels at planning, execution and prides itself on its ability to turn ideas into reality. Every event is unique and each project is overseen by a team specifically selected for each event every time. Our staff listen carefully to the ideas and requests of every customer to ensure every aspect of their ideal gathering come to full volition. We offer one-stop service starting from the initial meeting to the day of the event.
Reviewed By AdvtrTrvlr - Camarillo, United States
This is a great garden which is part of a hotel property and has all the traditional Japanese Garden features we were expecting from the little temple, a chapel where several couples were getting married, nice walkways, koi fish, sitting areas, a mini bamboo forest and lots of beautiful flowers and trees including bonsai trees. We would definitely recommend stopping to see this. It is near several other attractions if you are just wondering around so be on the lookout for it while walking around and using the pocket Wi-Fi that is highly recommended by all to help get around.
2. International House of Japan
3. Odaiba Kaihin Koen (Odaiba Seaside Park)
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 822 reviews
Odaiba Marine Park has sand and rocks surrounding a quiet cove that spreads out beside Daiba Park (Battery #3). Odaiba is one of Japan’s lading tourist spots sporting a fusion of natural water and greenery with futuristic scenery such as Rainbow Bridge, the Fuji Television Building and urban resort hotels. This is the heart of the continuously evolving coastal subcenter of Tokyo. You can spend a fun time regardless of the season at Odaiba Marine Park, which is also famed as a standard stop for students on school trips and travelers from within Japan and abroad. Many have been spiritually soothed by the truly magnificent and beautiful sunset and night view seen from Odaiba Marine Park. You can enjoy the view as you stroll along the beach or grassy lawns, or from the observation deck or the Skywalk.
Reviewed By mWrite - Helsinki, Finland
There is nice beach, however if I understood correctly, you are not allowed to swim. Interestingly the beach and entire area is man made. You have nice view from here towards the Rainbow bridge, which you most likely crossed to get here. And you have nice sunset view. There is also Statue of Liberty and shopping mall with plenty of restaurants, if you get hungry.
4. Shiba Park
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 370 reviews
Reviewed By 769PeterC - Warrington, United Kingdom
Nice place to spend a quiet hour or so walking through the park and in the temples and sitting on the grass to watch the world go by Best unobstructed views of the Tokyo Tower near by.
5. Arisugawa-no-miya Memorial Park
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4.0 based on 256 reviews
Reviewed By Cour14470 - Courseulles-sur-Mer, France
Arisugawa Park is a jewel. A (relatively) small park in the exclusive Hiro-o Azabu area but full of resources. A pond with plenty of turtles, a few fishermen in this typical Japanese setting to take great pictures especially in Spring with cherry blossoms or Fall with coloured leaves falling. Narrow pathways and staircases to discover the different areas of the park with kids and at the top a flat area with games for young kids and enough space to play frisbee, soccer or with remote small cars. Attached to it are the municipal tennis courts and baseball stadium where kids play loudly on weekends. A must if you live in the area, nice to see if not.
6. Daiba Park
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4.0 based on 360 reviews
"The Jokisen tea that awakens one from a peaceful sleep/With only four cups, the night is sleepless" This comical tanka satirizes the state of strife throughout Edo when an American fleet led by Admiral Matthew Perry appeared in Uraga Channel in June 1853, in the closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate. However, It was the shogunate itself that was surprised by the arrival of the black ships. The shogunate didn't even have large ships to defend itself from an attack by the foreign warships. So it came up with the idea of building batteries. As a result, it built six batteries off the coast of Shinagawa. However, in the end, they went unused and were neglected. They were known as the Shinagawa Daiba, and their designer was Egawa Taro-zaemon, the prefectural governor of Nirayama in Izu Province. The six batteries lasted until the Showa period, but four were removed as part of maintenance of Tokyo Bay, and only the two best preserved, No. 3 Battery and No. 6 Battery, were designated nat
Reviewed By suzmannikki - Liverpool, United Kingdom
Right next to the beach and the 2 big shopping centres. A great place to relax and from where to see the Rainbow Bridge.
7. Meiji Kinenkan
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 137 reviews
Restaurants, Western style lounge and a beautiful Japanese garden await you, allowing a relax time in the middle of busy Tokyo. Easy access from buses to trains, you might encounter a few shinto weddings. Meiji Kinenkan also proposes you meeting rooms and the Summer-only Sekirei Beer Terrace.
8. Institute of Nature Study
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 127 reviews
Reviewed By Reasonable50
It is a nobel that this land has not been developed and has been left to nature. The paths were dirt and gave me a feeling of being one with nature. It was not a manicured park. But, it was clearly tended to. It is worth the time to check out the small entrance museum. It will educate you and what is found and studied in the park. I particularly liked the interactive bird exhibit which showed and played the call of the birds found in the Institute. However, all of the museum is japanese only, including the books for sale. While walking I spotted a black kite soaring above the entrance to the trails and heard it's noisy call later when it landed in one of the old tall pines. Great park for birding.
9. Former Shiba Rikyu Gardens
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4.0 based on 339 reviews
Reviewed By ggm96822 - Honolulu, United States
Very easy to visit, right next to Hamamatsucho Station, five minutes south of Tokyo Station by JR Yamanote Line, and if you are a senior (65+) admission is only 70 yen. Known for early blossoms of plum and cherry, and most notable for the way it has become completely enclosed by skyscrapers. A very peaceful respite from the busy streets.
10. Mt. Atago
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