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Tokyo walking routes — 30 editor-picked walks with maps and what’s on

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30 routes — editor-walked, or clearly flagged until they are.

Walking Tokyo means reading it street by street — the low wooden lanes of Yanaka, the vintage racks of Shimokitazawa, the neon crush of Shibuya.

Tokyo has no centre — it's a constellation of villages that happen to share a rail map. That's the argument for walking it: the trains only drop you at the edge of each one. Wander out from Asakusa's Sensō-ji into the backstreets, drift through Yanaka's temple lanes or Kagurazaka's stone slopes, and the city finally makes sense at ground level.

No leaderboards, no algorithm — just the walks the editor thought were worth your time, with notes on what to actually look at along the way.

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Each neighbourhood gets its own page with every walk that runs through it. Useful if you already know where you want to be.

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