Tokyo Travel Guide

Tokyo is a vast conurbation, spreading out across the Kanto Plain from Tokyo-wan Bay - but everything for the visitor is cunningly contained within the rail loop, which makes things manageable (phew).

Made up of a tireless, heaving mass of humanity, Japan's most important city is a strange combination of the slick ultra modern with the more measured, traditional Japan. Not short of cultural venues, its National Museum holds the world's largest selection of Japanese art while the hi-tech National Science Museum knocks the socks off its namesakes elsewhere.

You don't have to try hard to find fascinating things to see and do - if one of the many temples isn't celebrating a Shinto festival, the music scene should compensate - big names are sure to stop in Tokyo during a tour.