Discover the best things to do in Tokyo, Japan — from temples to tea ceremonies and neon-lit streets. Your ultimate Tokyo travel guide awaits!

During Japan’s Sengoku “Warring States” era (1467-1615), castles were constructed, bolstered and fortified all across the Japanese archipelago, resulting in approximately 5,000 individual keeps.

“The past is never dead,” William Faulkner famously wrote. “It’s not even past.” Faulkner wasn’t writing about Tokyo when he crafted those lines, but he easily could have been. Although it is ...

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