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🌿 Tokyo in Green

Tokyo · One day · 4 stops · 35% local · ~7.4 km walked (~9,800 steps) · dense pace

A forest planted by hand a century ago, a bamboo-walled museum garden, and the imperial park that ends the day — Tokyo with the volume down.

♿ Terrain: easy. Wide gravel paths throughout; all four are largely flat.

🛡 Safety: relaxed. Nothing to flag.

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Day 1
~7.4 km · ~9,800 steps
Open route ↗

Not a Monday plan — both the Nezu Museum and Shinjuku Gyoen close then, and the Nezu also shuts between exhibitions, so check its calendar and book online. Meiji Jingū at opening, when the gravel is empty: every tree in that forest was planted by volunteers in the 1920s. Yoyogi next door is the loud, alive counterpart. Walk Omotesandō to the Nezu — Kuma's bamboo approach, and a hillside garden with teahouses that almost nobody upstairs bothers to walk down into. Gyoen last, and note it takes a ticket and closes earlier than you expect.

Harajuku & Omotesandō

~5h

Planted forest, then a garden behind a bamboo wall

  • Meiji Jingū

    Forest shrine of 100,000 donated trees — silence in the middle of the city.

  • Yoyogi Parklocal

    Sunday Tokyo at play — rockabillies, picnics, and street musicians.

  • Nezu Museum

    Kuma's bamboo approach, a pre-modern Asian art collection, and the garden that is the real reason to go.

Shinjuku

~3h

Three garden styles behind one wall

  • Shinjuku Gyoen

    Imperial garden calm three minutes from the world's busiest station.