A visit to Tokyo brings both a collection of sights and provides for an animated experience. In such a vast city there is plenty to see and do, ranging from visits to shrines, temples, and excellent museums, or brief trips to its various shopping areas.

Tokyo is a shopping paradise. A bewildering variety of high-quality goods and brand designer products can be found in elegant specialty shops located in Shinjuku, Harajuku, Shibuya, Yurakucho, Ikebukuro and any other busy towns in Tokyo.  Japanese department stores sell almost all kinds of products: varying from Japanese goods to European, American, and Asian. The dazzling lights of Ginza, Japan's answer to New York's Fifth Avenue, and Tokyo's most celebrated shopping districts attract both the avid shopper and the window shopper alike.

In the sports arena, baseball is big business in Tokyo. The spectacular Korakuen Dome, home of the most popular Giants, features Japanese professional baseball games held regularly. Sport fans will be drawn to Tokyo's four biggest spectator sports featuring, professional baseball, rugby, sumo and soccer. Although not among the four, Yankee style football and martial arts are also quite popular.

If your interest resides in sightseeing, make sure to embark on a relaxing and fascinating 40 minute day cruise on the Sumida River between Asakusa and the Port of Tokyo offers incentive groups a choice of five routes: the Canal Cruise (canal district and Shinagawa Aquarium), the Harbour Cruise (Rainbow Bridge and Tokyo Port), the Kasai Sea life Park (including a stop at Tokyo Big Sight), the Museum of Maritime Science (Odaiba Seaside Park and museum of ships complete with swimming pool and palms), and the Sumida River (passing beneath a dozen bridges).

For the art enthusiast, Tokyo has many forms of entertainment to offer. In fact, Japan is helping to promote itself by focusing on the arts and, with excellent facilities such as the New National Theatre and Opera City in the Shinjuku district; Tokyo is hoping to cater to the large groups interested in drama, opera, and the ballet.  For theatregoers there are three unique and powerful forms of entertainment: Kabuki, Takarazuka, and Noh.  As a standing form of ancient Japanese tradition the Kabuki features only male performers, whereas Takarazuka is an all-girl revue.

For a more thorough view of Japan’s history, visitors can delight in the many excellent museums scattered throughout Tokyo. The most modern museum being the Edo-Tokyo Museum, complete with an intriguing 52-meter escalator and supported by
four colossal pillars.

Virtually synonymous with Japan, the traditional Japanese gardens of Tokyo bring visitors a step back from the frenzied main roads. It is here where you'll find yourself in a world of tranquility, a place where the gardens are outlined by wooden houses and complemented by neatly clipped bonsai trees. Visitors will readily encounter quiet cobbled lanes leading to tiny neighborhood shrines shrouded in foliage.