One sweltering day in Tokyo, Kaoru Morimoto told friends she wasn't sure she could endure another summer in her neighbourhood, where tree cover and the crucial shade it provides is dwindling.

Municipal governments of Tokyo’s central wards are taking a variety of measures to encourage foreign visitors to keep the yen flowing after the sun sets. The Tokyo metropolitan government is the ...

Set over the 38th–43rd floors of the Akasaka Trust Tower in Japan’s capital city, 1 Hotel Tokyo is the calm above the ( Tokyo) storm—they don’t call it the “sanctuary in the sky” for nothing. Here, ...

You can’t visit Tokyo without seeing them. These pale-yellow boxes of individually wrapped bite-size cakes are emblazoned with images of the capital’s most famous tourist attractions and, sometimes, ...

This riverside nabe attracts trendy makers and artists but hasn’t lost that old-town feel.