Yoyogi Park 代々木公園

Whether you're interested in seeing one of Japan's most impressive shrines, want to take a walk in the woods or just relax and do some people watching, a day at Yoyogi Park should be part of your trip to Tokyo . Yoyogi is an event magnet, too, so you're likely to find crowds of folks having fun on a major scale.

The park is close to several train stations.

The quickest ways to get to Yoyogi Park are via Harajuku Stations on the JR Yamanote Line, Yoyogi-Koen Station on the Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line, or Meiji-Jingumae Station on the Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line.

Before becoming a city park in 1967, the Yoyogi Park area was the site of the Olympic Village during the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. There are plenty of places to jog and cycle in the park, and local residents take full advantage.

Though it may not have the most cherry trees in Tokyo , Yoyogi Park does have hundreds of them, and in the spring there's one big communal party going on for as long as the trees are in bloom.

Yoyogi is one of the biggest parks in Tokyo , featuring wide-open lawns for picnics and several gorgeous bodies of water. It's also near a number of Harajuku hotspots, including Takeshita Street and Meiji-jingu Shrine .