東京3日間、ほどよい予算で
Three days for a first visit, one side of the city a day: the national museum and Senso-ji in the east, Meiji Jingu and Shibuya in the west, the palace gardens and two department stores on the last morning. Both nights…
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Sora Nakamura · 2026.09.25 · Sora Nakamura is a pen name. Routes are written from the sources named on each stop, and read before they go out.
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The line
東京国立博物館
The national museum in Ueno Park. The ¥1,000 ticket is for the collection galleries. At busy times the museum itself recommends buying online: the queue at the main-gate ticket window can pass thirty minutes.
Plan B Closed on Mondays: on a Monday, swap day 1 and day 2.
metro ≈25 min · Ginza line, Ueno to Asakusa
浅草寺
Tokyo's great temple in Asakusa. The main hall keeps its own hours; come in by the Kaminarimon gate.
walk ≈18 min · 1.1 km
Noodles
A neighbourhood diner of Chinese and Western plates, north of the temple. The ramen enthusiast Satoko Morimoto chose its plain ramen for Hanako: nothing extra is done to it, so the soup comes through clean.
Plan B Closed on Thursdays: on a Thursday, swap day 1 and day 2.
metro ≈20 min · Ginza line, Asakusa to Kanda, then a short walk
Stay
Two nights here, on the Kanda River between Akihabara and Kanda. Jalan lists a room for two with breakfast from ¥9,500 a person, and the hotel keeps luggage.
metro ≈35 min · Ginza line, Kanda to Omotesando, then a walk to the shrine
明治神宮
The shrine is open every day and entry is free. Its gates follow the sun, so the hours change month by month.
walk ≈25 min · 1.5 km
Eat
An izakaya that opens at lunchtime, a short walk north-west of the shrine. Hanako put it on a list of places to eat and drink well for about ¥5,000; its shumai are ¥770 and the three-starter plate is ¥770.
Plan B Closed on Wednesdays: on a Wednesday, swap day 2 and day 3.
walk ≈40 min · 2.6 km
Sweets
The shop that started the queue for raw doughnuts, with more than 80 kinds in Shibuya, savoury and seasonal ones included. Hanako printed pistachio at ¥497 and raspberry at ¥464.
walk ≈13 min · 0.8 km
Bars & sake
A standing bar in Sakuragaoka, by the station, whose menu keeps the favourites of the old Fujiya Honten. Hanako's picks: a sardine and seaweed roll at ¥850, an Unzen ham cutlet at ¥600, a medium bottle of Sapporo Red Star at ¥550. No reservations.
metro ≈30 min · Ginza line, Shibuya to Kanda
Stay
The second night.
walk ≈25 min · 2.3 km
皇居東御苑
The palace's East Gardens are open to the public with no ticket and no booking.
Plan B Closed on Mondays and Fridays: on those days, begin at 11:00 in Ginza.
metro ≈15 min · Marunouchi line, Otemachi to Ginza
Sweets
Cheesecake in the Matsuya Ginza food hall. Hanako's pick is KANKAN, sold only here, topped with Tosa bergamot: ¥3,132 for a box of six to take home.
metro ≈10 min · Ginza line, Ginza to Mitsukoshimae
ヒュー・モルガン）
In the basement of Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi: a specialty-vanilla shop spent two years on this cheesecake of three cheeses and Madagascar vanilla. Hanako printed it at ¥5,616 a whole cake, the last thing to carry home.
日 Day by Day · TK
The trip costs
¥30,494–30,527
≈ $193–193 · €172–173 at the ECB rate of 11.09
Per person · one adult · 9 of 12 stops priced
The day, in words
Three days for a first visit, one side of the city a day: the national museum and Senso-ji in the east, Meiji Jingu and Shibuya in the west, the palace gardens and two department stores on the last morning. Both nights are in one hotel between Akihabara and Kanda, because the Ginza line runs from Kanda to all three.
Every figure on this page was printed by someone, and the page says who: the museum, the shrine and the palace gardens from their own sites, checked on 25 September 2026; the food and the hotel from Hanako and Jalan, each with the date of the article; the metro fares from Tokyo Metro's IC fare table. Where nobody printed a price, the stop says so, and meals we have no source for are left open rather than guessed.
What closes when: the museum on Mondays, the ramen diner on Thursdays, the lunch izakaya on Wednesdays, the palace gardens on Mondays and Fridays, and the standing bar on days of its own choosing. Start on a Friday or a Sunday and everything else is open.
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