Mid-range · 3-hour walk · Tokyo
Daikanyama and Nakameguro in three hours
A bookshop built for browsing, the low-rise terraces that set the neighbourhood's tone, a wooden house of 1919 and the canal of cherry trees lined with cafés.
West of Shibuya, Daikanyama and Nakameguro are where Tokyo shops slowly: small boutiques, design shops and coffee rather than department stores. This route goes from Daikanyama's hilltop down to the Meguro River. The end of March and the start of April, when the cherry trees along the river flower, are the best and busiest time of the year.
The route, stop by stop
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Daikanyama T-Site
Tsutaya's bookshop of three linked pavilions wrapped in a lattice of interlocking Ts, with a lounge upstairs for reading what you have not bought yet.
40 min here Walk here → -
Hillside Terrace
Fumihiko Maki's low-rise complex of shops and galleries, built in stages between 1969 and 1992, which set the tone for the whole neighbourhood.
15 min here Walk here → -
Kyu Asakura House
A wooden house of 1919 built for a Tokyo politician, with tatami rooms looking onto a garden on the slope. One of the few such houses left in central Tokyo.
30 min here Walk here → -
Meguro River
The river's concrete banks are lined for kilometres with cherry trees, and in Nakameguro with cafés, boutiques and Starbucks' vast Reserve Roastery by Kengo Kuma.
40 min here Walk here →
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