Sightseeing 30 THINGS TO DO AROUND THE 15 Float under the blossoms at the Tourist Information Chidori-ga-fuchi is famous for its spectacular cherry blossoms, and renting a boat at this boathouse in the centre SEEK HELP of Chidori-ga-fuchi green way and paddling under the flowering branches as they reach out over the moat is one of IMPERIAL PALACE Tokyo’s sakura season must-dos. It stays open until 8.30pm during sakura festival season. Chidori-ga-fuchi Boat Area TION C FORMA ENTRE Restaurants & Cafés Restaurants & Cafés IN Accommodation 16 Try one of China's most 17 Supersize your appetite 01 Bathe in an urban hot spring popular styles of ramen with gourmet burgers Just when it was starting to feel that Tokyo's ryokan (traditional inns) were on the verge of extinction, along Mazilu, a famous restaurant that serves Lanzhou It's been some time since the gourmet hamburger came a major new player. Opened in 2016, Hoshinoya Tokyo is one of the capital's very few luxury ryokan, lamian, has opened its first international outpost in boom started in Tokyo. While some fancy burgers complete with tatami-floored suites, a rooftop onsen spa and a main dining room. Hoshinoya Tokyo Jimbocho. This renowned style of lamian is known look better than they taste, this restaurant's for its soup, made by simmering beef and bones offerings are different. The firm ground beef patty, with more than ten spices. Though the menu the sprinkling of coarsely ground pepper and the consists of only one dish (Lanzhou beef noodles), thick fluffly bun all form a perfectly balanced, the noodles are handmade to order and you can satisfying burger. The hand-cut potato chips are Chiyoda City Tourism Association Shin-Marunouchi Building Information 1-6-17 Kudanminami, Chiyoda even change the toppings to your liking. good, too. I-Kousha Counter 1-5-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda Mazilu Beef Noodles JR EAST Travel Service Center Tokyo Station Marunouchi Building Information Shopping Tokyo Station Marunouchi North gate, 1-9-1 18 Peek into the past Counter Marunouchi, Chiyoda 2-4-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda Stocking only books published during the Edo Tourist Information Center, JNTO (TIC) Tokyo City i Tokyo Tourist Information period, Ohya Shobo also sells valuable art prints, Shin Tokyo Building 1F, 3-3-1 Marunouchi, Center occasionally by celebrated artists like Katsushika Chiyoda JP Tower Kitte B1, 2-7-2 Marunouchi, Hokusai or Utagawa Hiroshige, and old photographs Chiyoda taken in the second half of the 19th century. It's a Kanda Institute of Foreign Languages Restaurants & Cafés veritable treasure chest for collectors. Ohya Shobo 2-13-13 Uchikanda, Chiyoda Tokyo International Forum Restaurants & Cafés Bar 19 Travel back into the 3-5-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda 02 Brave a bowl of 03 Chow down on chicken Meijiera Hotel New Otani Tokyo / Concierge Italo-ramen curry 4-1 Kioicho, Chiyoda Hotel Niwa Tokyo Information Desk Back in the days of Japan's late-1800s and early- 1-1-16 Kandamisakicho, Chiyoda Italian flavours meet Japan's favourite soul food at This chic hideaway bar is located right in between 1900s modernising drive, folks enamoured with AKIBA_INFO. Due Italian, a supremely individualist ramen shop the Suidobashi, Jimbocho and Ochanomizu Western fashion used to gather at this restaurant Akihabara UDX 2F, 4-14-1, Sotokanda, SAKURA HOTEL & CAFÉ JIMBOCHO stations. The drink selection is respectable, but the run by fusion experimenter extraordinaire Kazuo to show off their garb. Slip back into a bygone age Chiyoda 2-21-4 Kandajimbocho, Chiyoda Ishizuka. Due is best known for its white ramen, food menu is the real attraction. Try their famously by having some omelette over rice on the terrace, Hibiya Park Service Center a mind-boggling but rather tasty creation that flavourful chicken curry to help keep the drinks or head up to the third floor for French cuisine. TIC TOKYO 1-6 Hibiyakoen, Chiyoda combines prosciutto ham, cream cheese, green down. J. Tipple Bar Hibiya Matsumotoro Marunouchi Trust Tower North 1F, 1-8-1 onion and a whole bunch of thin noodles. Due Italian Marunouchi, Chiyoda Baggage storage Wi-fi spot Shopping Restaurants & Cafés Bar Bank, money exchange Put your papers in order 20 Get a cup of matcha to go Discover a new world of Leisure 05 21 craft beers 04 Partake in a Japanese The showroom of Takeo, Japan's foremost expert Founded in Kyoto in 1717, Ippodo Tea is a 300-year- bathhouse ritual in paper trading, carries all kinds of paper for old purveyor of Japanese tea for all occasions, Situated on the first floor of the WATERRAS mall printing, artworks, envelopes and much more – a ranging from ceremonial matchas to every-day tea complex, this café-bar boasts a wide selection of Sweat it out in this public bathhouse after your run Chiyoda City Tourism whopping 2,700 different kinds. The second floor bags. Stop at the Ippodo Marunouchi outpost for domestic and foreign craft beers – 30 of which are around the Imperial Palace. There's luggage storage Association Official Map is dedicated to exhibits highlighting paper samples an array of Japanese teas, a tea room for serious available on the daily changing tap. You will definitely onsite, plus juice is usually provided as well. Don’t from both Japan and elsewhere. sipping, and instructions on how to best brew the not run out of things to try. Can't decide? The staff forget to write your name and locker number on the Takeo Mihoncho Honten tea yourself. Ippodo Marunouchi will be able to help you with recommendations.. whiteboard before heading out for your run. Wiz Craft Beer and Food Bain Douche Sightseeing 22 Take a selfie at a Bar Japanese garden 06 Appreciate fine malts If you would like to take a souvenir photo with a Don't tell your friends, but this Jimbocho whisky bar beautiful Japanese garden in the background, visit deserves the vastly overused moniker of 'hidden this garden managed by Hotel New Otani. The gem'. Doing quiet business on a back street close historic garden is open to public, and has been to the station, it stocks one of the best selections well-preserved since the Edo period. There are in the entire city, including Japanese varieties dating lots of highlights here, including fossils, lanterns, back to long before the current boom. Bar Plat Art waterfalls and a pond with colourful carp. 07 Ogle at art in historic halls Hotel New Otani Tokyo Japanese Garden Sightseeing When it was originally completed in 1894, the 23 Mingle with dignitaries Josiah Conder-designed Mitsubishi Ichigokan Finally completed in December 2017, this vast was the first Western-style office building in the square in front of Tokyo Station functions as the Marunouchi area. Rebuilt in 2010 according to starting point for the carriage processions that see Conder's original plans, it was reborn on the same newly appointed foreign ambassadors ceremonially site as a major art museum. travel to the Imperial Palace to greet and present Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo 30 their credentials to the emperor. It also offers some THINGS TO DO AROUND THE pretty spectacular photo ops. Restaurants & Cafés Sightseeing Marunouchi Station Square 08 Breathe in the Hibiya air 09 Spice up your stroll Restaurants & Cafés Step out of Jimbocho Station's exit A6 and you'll A municipal park in the heart of Tokyo, Hibiya Park Sample top quality udon IMPERIAL PALACE 24 is home to facilities such as Hibiya Public Hall, the stumble right upon this spritzy Thai joint, where the Hibiya Library and both small and large open-air food is full of stimulating spices and aromas but With roots in the Kagawa institution Yamagoe Udon, this udon restaurant's noodles have a firm yet springy concert halls. The Imperial Palace Gardens, the somewhat less fiery than you'd find in Bangkok – to texture, while the soup stock is pleasantly mild – even those who have sampled udon in Kagawa are surprised to Imperial Hotel and various ministry and government accommodate local palates, of course. Stays open find Sanuki udon of this quality in Tokyo. Expect a queue at lunchtime, but it moves quite quickly. Udon Maruka offices are just a stone's throw away. Hibiya Park until 2am on weekdays. Maenam no Hotori Sightseeing Restaurants & Cafés Sightseeing 25 Inspect some castle ruins 26 Have a steal of a meal Snap the perfect pic 10 Covering around a third of the total area of the Join the employees of Chiyoda City for lunch at this Imperial Palace, the free-to-enter East Gardens convenient tenth-floor cafeteria, where a set meal MAP Known for the yearly Sanno Festival that takes place in June and sees a parade of spectacular floats travel INCLUDED through central Tokyo, this solemn shrine attracts plenty of pious politicians from nearby Nagatacho – and include most of the land where Edo Castle stood can be had for ¥500 and bowls of noodles for less Instagrammers who come for its tunnel of red torii gates inside. Hie-Jinja Shrine back when the shoguns ruled Japan. The Bairinzaka than that. The spacious hall is hardly ever full and ('plum forest hill') between the outer and inner keep offers nice views over the Imperial Palace grounds. is lined with over 50 plum trees. Chiyoda City Office Cafeteria The East Gardens of the Imperial Palace Shopping Shop for time-honoured Bar 28 27 Down an imperial cocktail souvenirs WELCOME to Chiyoda City Established in Nara back in 1716, Nakagawa The legendary Imperial Hotel's top-floor lounge is Masashichi Shoten is one of those venerable An area where past and the present blend seamlessly the work of British designer Julian Reed and gives crafts purveyors that have survived through off an air of understated luxury.