
Open Tokyo Station & Marunouchi in the guide, with the map, the walks and the places you can see for free.
Tokyo Station & Marunouchi, Tokyo
The polished heart of central Tokyo around Tokyo Station. Marunouchi's red-brick station facade and tree-lined Nakadori, the Yaesu depachika and Tokyo Ramen Street underground, and KITTE's rooftop looking back over the platforms.
How I use Tokyo Station & Marunouchi
Tokyo Station's red brick face is worth circling even if you never board a train. Inside is a city of ramen streets and character shops, outside the Marunouchi brick paths run toward the Imperial Palace moat. Office Tokyo, but polished until it glows.
What Tokyo Station & Marunouchi is known for
Marunouchi is Tokyo's polished business heart, wrapped around the restored red-brick Tokyo Station Marunouchi building and running toward the Imperial Palace moat. Below the towers are ramen streets and character-goods floors (Tokyo Station's 'Character Street' and Ramen Street), and the brick avenues make one of the city's nicest evening strolls.
Getting to Tokyo Station & Marunouchi
It surrounds Tokyo Station itself, the hub for the Shinkansen, the JR Yamanote and Chuo lines and more, plus the Tokyo Metro Marunouchi line. Otemachi and Nijubashimae stations sit on the palace side. You're never far from a train here.
Circle the red-brick station facade even if you never board a train, then walk the brick paths toward the palace moat at dusk when the office towers light up. Underground, the station's ramen and character streets are a rainy-day city of their own.
What to eat & do in Tokyo Station & Marunouchi
I've vetted 15 places in Tokyo Station & Marunouchi myself, including 2 for gluten-free and 3 for matcha & tea. Each one in the guide carries the nearest station and exit, what to order and the reservation reality.
The full names and the exact directions open in the full guide, that specificity is the whole product.
Tokyo Station & Marunouchi, Tokyo: frequently asked questions
Is Marunouchi worth visiting?
Yes, at least in passing, the restored Tokyo Station building is beautiful, the Imperial Palace gardens are a short walk, and the underground station streets (ramen, sweets, character goods) are genuinely fun. It's polished, easy and central.
How do I get to Marunouchi?
It wraps around Tokyo Station, so take any line to Tokyo Station and exit on the Marunouchi side, or the Tokyo Metro Marunouchi line to Tokyo or Otemachi.
What is there to do around Tokyo Station?
Admire the red-brick Marunouchi station building, walk to the Imperial Palace East Gardens, explore the underground Tokyo Station shopping streets (Ramen Street and Character Street), and stroll the KITTE and Marunouchi brick avenues, lovely when lit in the evening.
Explore nearby
- Shibuya, Energy capital.
- Shinjuku, The city in miniature: skyscrapers west, Golden Gai's tin-roof bars and Omoide Yokocho's yakitori smoke east, Shinjuku Gyoen's gardens an unexpected hush in the middle.
- Asakusa, Old-Tokyo temple district.
- Ginza, Old-money Tokyo.
- Harajuku & Omotesando, Takeshita Street's teenage chaos one block from Omotesando's quiet luxury, the most architecturally beautiful shopping street in Tokyo.
- Ueno & Yanaka, Museum row meets a low-key neighborhood untouched by the bubble years.