Tokyo Skytree

Tokyo Skytree

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Area：Ueno,Asakusa,Ryogoku Character： For couples For family For foreign tourists Can eat here

Genre： Experience Japanese technology Sights

Best time： Whole year

Category： Great View Shopping Complex facility

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Experience Japanese technology Sights

Great view and shopping at tallest tower in the world!!

Reaching its full height of 634.0 metres (2,080 ft), making it the tallest tower in the world in March 2011. Marvellous view from the skytree will be a highlight of your stay in Japan.At the foot of the tower, it's a mall and a complex facility where you can enjoy from shopping and food to aquarium and planetarium. One day might be spent here.

You can access from Tokyo station, using a skytree shuttle bus.

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【Optional Tour】Tokyo Skytree, Asakusa and Central Tokyo Sightseeing Tour

Discover two of Tokyo’s must-see destinations on a guided tour of the Asakusa district and the Tokyo Skytree.

Sit back and relax on a sightseeing tour of central Tokyo. You'll drive through Imperial Palace Plaza, National Diet Building, State Guest House, Ginza and Akihabara. Next, you’ll visit the famous Buddhist shrines and temples of Asakusa, then have Tokyo at your feet when you take in views from the Tokyo Skytree, one of the world’s tallest tower.

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Get off at the station, Oshiage, on Metro Hanzomon line and walk for Skytree. Solamachi is connected to the station and easily accessed.
Going out of the building
And you look back, Skytree is right in front of your eyes! it's overwhelming!!

Entering Tokyo Skytree, go up the escalator. A modern style of the building catches your eyes
Now go into Solamachi 1st floor on East Yard. Edo-like shops are on sight.
And you through, it's a open space there.

With fast food restaurants and other cafes around, you can grab a bite there.
Sumida Aquarium is in Solamachi where you can access from 4th foor on West Yard. Take an escalator to the 5th.
Here you can purchase a ticket to the aquarium. 2,000yen an adult. open throughout the year. open till PM9:00 and last admission is at PM8:00.

Next to the aquarium, there is a green garden where you can chill. And it has a tiny farm and grows oranges and other plants.
Sky Arena on the 4th, numbered tickes to buy entrance tickes to Skytree for the day are being contributed. On this day, one weekday, with that ticket you are actually able to purchase a "real" entrance ticket in 2 or 3 hours.
With that numbered ticket with time written, there are very long lines in Skytree entrance. To buy actual tickets for the day, enter not from the front entrance but from the one in North

At Skytree entrance, make sure to check goods and nice souvenirs of Skytree at Tree Village.
Go in to East Yard from Sky Arena
On the 4th floor, it is a shop called "Sengoku dama" where samurai'related goods are on sale.

Paintings of militar generals from old eras and their fake armors are on display.
Across the pathway, famous food samples you can enjoy watching and actually making.
Known in the windows of restaurants, they have key holdes of food samples and others. At certain time, showcases of making samples are on.

Dome Garden on the 8th floor of West Yard where you also chill out and take pictures. And the round object is the planetarium where you can access from the 7th of East Yard.
Service for taking pictures cost 1,100 yen per photo.
Good view from Dome Garden. You can enjoy food in one of the restaurants with great view!