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Tokyo is a marvelous mix of modern living and old-fashioned manners,slick high-tech gadgets and cutesy cartoon mascots.It's terribly crowded,yet can be strangely quiet.It's not a pretty city,not by conventional standards.Beauty comes in tiny packages here:You'll find it in bud vases,at dinner tables and on dessert plates.You'll find it also in the way superfast trains ease into stations,gently,precisely and on time.There is beauty in the shrines and stone lanterns and other traces of old Japan scattered among the skyscrapers,swanky shopping malls and sprawling mass transit hubs.The trick is to sample it all 鈥 to do the serene garden and the massive office tower with a view.Here's how to see the loveliest 鈥 and liveliest 鈥 sides of Tokyo in one day.
sumo
Forget kabuki 鈥 sumo is better theater.If you happen to be in Tokyo during one of the three grand tournaments 鈥 15-day events in January,May and September 鈥 go straight from the Tsukiji fish market to Ryogoku Kokugikan,Tokyo's National Sumo Hall.The box office opens at 8 a.m.,and competition begins at 9 a.m.and lasts into the evening.Bouts are brief 鈥 usually just a few,very exciting,extremely intense seconds,with a lot of posturing in between.Try to stay long enough to see the start of a new round,when the rikishi parade into the arena wearing special aprons over their loincloths,and there's a brief ceremony in the ring.
If it's not tournament season,try to go to one of the stables where the wrestlers live and train.Sessions start early and are usually over by 10 a.m.,though figure 9 a.m.to be safe.(There are more than 50 sumo stables in Tokyo; click here for the list).Have someone who speaks Japanese call the stable in the afternoon on the day before you want to go,to make sure the team's in town and not on tour in the countryside.Some stables are more welcoming than others.Try Kokonoe-beya,or ask the concierge at your hotel if they have an in somewhere.Inside the stable,keep quiet and out of the way,and don't take flash pictures.You may be expected to make a small donation.
General admission tickets for Ryogoku Kokugikan are sold as same-day seats on tournament days:$20 for adults,$2 for children ages 4 to 15 (kids under 4 get in free); tickets are cash only.Take the JR Yamanote line to Akihabara and transfer to the Sobu line for Ryogoku station; the stadium is next door,and Kokonoe-beya is a 5-minute taxi ride from there.The Toei Oedo line also stops at Ryogoku station.
Meiji Shrine
Dedicated to the late 19th-century emperor who opened Japan to the West,Tokyo's most famous Shinto shrine is wonderfully serene and austere,not colorful or flashy like other Asian places of worship,and is less of a tourist trap than Senso-ji,the big Buddhist temple across town in Asakusa.The 40-foot-high (12-meter) torii gate at the entrance to the 200-acre park is made of 1,500-year-old cypress,and there's a second one like it closer to the shrine itself.Stop at the cleansing station where you can dip into a communal water tank and purify your hands and mouth before offering up a prayer.You can write wishes on little pieces of paper and tie them onto the prayer wall,or do as the locals do 鈥 toss some yen into the offering box (it's near the enormous taiko drum),bow your head twice,clap twice,and bow once more.
On Sunday mornings you are likely to see a traditional wedding procession (or two) through the courtyard 鈥 the bride in a white kimono and hood and the groom in his formal black robe,walking together under an enormous red parasol,with Shinto priests leading the way and the rest of the wedding party trailing behind.Shrines,big or small,can get interesting on festival days.Check the calendar to see what's happening.
Meiji-jingu is open sunrise to sunset.Admission is free.Take the JR Yamanote line to Harajuku station.
Yoyogi Park
Yoyogi Park in Shibuya-ku is the perfect comic relief after a low-key shrine stop.With living space so tight in this city,parks are the places for club meetings and practice sessions and even play rehearsals,and Yoyogi draws all sorts of talent,from horn players to hula hoopers to hip-hop dancers.Some carry on as if unaware they have an audience.I love the rockabilly gangs,Elvis-inspired dudes with pronounced pompadours who usually gather by the park's east side entrance on Sundays to jam to American pop music from the '50s.You'll see them next to the sock hop of ladies in poodle skirts and saddle shoes.Somehow this scene is more satisfying than the Gothic Lolitas and Costume Play kids (fans of Japanese manga and anime dressed as their favorite characters) hanging out on the Harajuku bridge,but I always take my friends to see them too.
Yoyogi Park has a mellower side that's also worth exploring 鈥 areas to the north and west,past the fountain pond and central field.There's a cycling center (81-(0)3-3465-6855) northwest of the central field that rents bikes,including tandems,for just a few hundred yen (you're not supposed to go off the path,which is long and lovely) and a snack hut with tables that sells ice cream and beer.There is also a little dog run,so you're bound to see at least a few terriers decked out in rhinestones and denim or chihuahuas dressed like cheerleaders.
Yoyogi Park is open from dawn to dusk.Admission is free.Take the JR Yamanote line to Harajuku,Omotesando exit,or the Chiyoda line to Yoyogi-koen,exit 4.