Day trips around Tokyo

Todoroki Keikoku (Valley)
Here's a good place for a day of forest walking: Todoroki Keikoku in Setagaya, Tokyo.

Tokyo Neighbourhoods | Kichijoji
Kichijoji, another center of Tokyo trends, selected as the most-like-to-live town in the Tokyo area.

Green Park of Kawaguchi City (Saitama) : Kawaguchi Green Center
The Kawaguchi Green Center is a botanical park in Kawaguchi City, Saitama Prefecture., one of the places that represent Kawaguchi city’s greenery promotion activities.

Higuchi Ichiyo, the writer printed on the Japanese 5000 Yen note
Do you know whose portraits are on the Japanese Yen Bills? The portrait for the 1000 Yen is of NOGUCHI Hideyo野口英世, a bacteriologist and physician. And the portrait of the 5000 Yen is HIGUCHI Ichiyo , the first professional female writer in Japan.

Unique Modern Art Museum in Tokyo | The Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum
A hidden gem nestled in Aoyama, the former atelier of a pioneer of Japanese modern art