Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Tokyo
Detourmap lists 47 places in Tokyo, Japan, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Iwo Jima. 30 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 47
- Oldest
- Shiba Maruyama Kofun 500
- Little known
- 30 of 47
- Share of Japan
- 4%
Tokyo 47
All 47, best known first.
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1.Iwo Jima
Nature · Renowned
Island of the Japanese Volcano Islands chain south of the Ogasawara Islands, site of the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima
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8.Mount Suribachi
Nature · Notable
A 169-metre (554 ft)-high mountain on the southwest end of Iwo Jima
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23.Mukojima
Nature · Hidden gem
Uninhabited island in the Bonin/Ogasawara archipelago, administered as part of Tokyo, Japan
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24.Tachikawa air disaster
Archaeological · 20th century · Hidden gem
Aviation incident that occurred on the afternoon of Thursday, June 18, 1953 when a United States Air Force (USAF) Douglas C-124 Globemaster II aircraft crashed…
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28.Minami-Hiyoshi Seamount
Nature · Hidden gem
Active submarine volcano within the Volcano Islands, Japan
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31.Asakura Museum of Sculpture
Archaeological · 20th century · Hidden gem
Art museum in Tokyo, Japan
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37.Musashi Fuchū Kumano Shrine Kofun
Archaeological · 7th century · Hidden gem
Kofun in Tokyo, Japan
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42.Takanawa Great Wooden Gate
Archaeological · 18th century · Hidden gem
Historic site in Tokyo, Japan
Elsewhere in Japan
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Tokyo?
Iwo Jima. Island of the Japanese Volcano Islands chain south of the Ogasawara Islands, site of the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Tokyo?
47: 28 nature & landscapes and 19 archaeological & historic sites. 30 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Tokyo?
Shiba Maruyama Kofun, dated to 500. 14 of the 47 places here carry a founding date at all.
What counts as Tokyo here?
Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Tokyo if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Tokyo is a first-level division of Japan, the same level as a state or a province.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.