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1. Food · Asakusa

   Walk Nakamise to Tokyo's oldest temple

   Senso-ji has stood here since 645, and the approach to it is a street of stalls selling rice crackers and folding fans that has been trading for three centuries. Walk it — and photograph it.

2. City discovery · Ryogoku

   Watch sumo — a sport that exists in one country

   Sumo is practised professionally nowhere else on earth. Catch a tournament bout at the Kokugikan, or the morning practice at a stable where the wrestlers train before dawn. Be there — and photograph it.

3. Nature · Shibuya

   Walk into a forest planted inside the capital

   The woods around Meiji Jingu are not old growth: 100,000 trees were donated from all over Japan in 1920 and planted to become a forest, and they did. Walk under them — and photograph it.

4. History · Yanaka

   Find the old low city in Yanaka

   Yanaka came through both the 1923 earthquake and the firebombing, so its wooden houses, cemetery cherry trees and shopping street are the Tokyo that the rest of the city lost. Walk it — and photograph it.

5. Food

   Eat sushi at Tsukiji Outer Market

   Wander the market lanes trying skewers as you go and photograph them.