Top 20 Reasons To Visit Tokyo

Above, the main gate to Asakusa's Nakamise Dori and Sensoji Temple. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

For quite some time, it seems that most, if not all, travel-oriented websites have their lists of things to see and do at different places. They usually consist of someone's "top five," "top ten" or "top twenty" lists of restaurants, attractions or even cities. I was recently tasked to provide the "top five monster attack locations in Tokyo" by Metropolis magazine (proof that even I wasn't immune to it).

The latest comes from Australia's Traveller.com.au. There, the writer, Julie Miller, gives her "top twenty reasons to visit Tokyo."

She begins her list with:

No one mixes tradition with off-the-wall quirkiness quite like the Japanese. 

I have no disagreement with any of her list items. I have seen or done most of them.

To see the list, go here.