Discover Places Worth Exploring
Find attractions, neighbourhoods, food, shopping, cultural experiences and interesting stops throughout Tokyo.
A new way to explore Tokyo is coming
Discover Tokyo.
Find Your Way.
Tanoshi is building a practical Tokyo discovery app that brings exciting places, useful directions, official resources, and everyday essentials together in one experience.
Launching first on iPhone. Tokyo is only the beginning.
Or start exploring on the web right now
Tanoshi covers a curated collection of 15 Tokyo places, checked against official sources. It is not a complete directory of the city.
What is Tanoshi?
See Japan differently. Explore it more easily.
Tanoshi Scout is a Japan-first discovery brand sharing the places, stories, food, culture and moments that make exploring fun.
Now we’re building the Tanoshi App—a practical companion designed to help visitors discover Tokyo, understand how to reach the places they find, locate useful resources nearby, and save ideas for their trip.
We’re starting with Tokyo, learning carefully, and building outward from there.
Explore what we’ve built so far
Meet the Tanoshi App
More exploring. Less searching.
Planning a day in Tokyo can mean switching between maps, train information, ticket websites, reviews and facility searches. Tanoshi is being designed to bring the useful parts together—so you can spend less time figuring things out and more time experiencing the city.
The screen below is the working web experience, live on this site today. The iPhone app is being built on the same foundation.
Web experience — live now
What you'll be able to do
Your Tokyo companion, from discovery to arrival.
Built around the questions that actually slow a trip down — which station, which exit, is it open, and where is the nearest changing table.
Find the Right Way There
See useful stations, line information, station exits where a venue publishes them, and links to live directions in your map app.
Find Everyday Essentials
Locate listed toilets, baby-changing facilities, nursing rooms, accessible facilities, food and medical resources near selected destinations.
Access Official Resources
Find official ticket, reservation, attraction and transport links in one place, instead of searching across a dozen sites.
Save Your Discoveries
Keep the places you want to visit and start organising ideas into a day. Saved on your device — no account required.
Explore With Your Family
See the practical information that makes Tokyo easier with children or different accessibility needs — including where something has not been verified yet.
Tanoshi covers a curated collection of places, not every venue in Tokyo, and it does not calculate train routes itself — directions open in the map app you already use.
The Tanoshi App
Be first to explore with Tanoshi.
Join the waitlist for development updates, early previews, and a notification when the Tanoshi App becomes available.
Launching first on iPhone. Tokyo is only the beginning.
Explore by interest
Places in the collection
See all 15AsakusaAttractions
Sensō-ji
浅草寺
Tokyo's oldest temple, approached through a 200-metre market street of snack and souvenir stalls.
Free entryFood on site5 facilities uncheckedMinatoMuseums and culture
teamLab Borderless
チームラボボーダレス
A digital art museum with no fixed route — works move between rooms and react as you walk through them.
Book ahead5 facilities uncheckedUrayasu (Chiba)Theme parks and pop culture
Tokyo Disney Resort
東京ディズニーリゾート
Two parks — Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea — reached in about fifteen minutes by train from Tokyo Station.
In Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture — outside Tokyo, about 15 minutes by train from Tokyo Station.
Book ahead6 facilities uncheckedShibuyaAttractions
Meiji Jingū
明治神宮
A large shrine inside a planted forest, a few minutes from one of the busiest stations in the city.
Free entry5 facilities uncheckedShibuyaAttractions
Shibuya Scramble Crossing
渋谷スクランブル交差点
The intersection everyone photographs, directly outside Shibuya Station's Hachikō exit.
Free entry3 facilities uncheckedSumidaAttractions
Tokyo Skytree
東京スカイツリー
A broadcasting tower with two paid observation decks, attached to a large shopping complex.
5 facilities unchecked
Neighbourhoods we cover
Asakusa 浅草
Low-rise old Tokyo around Sensō-ji, with a long market street and the river close by.
Shibuya 渋谷
Busy, young and retail-heavy, and the district most visitors picture first.
Shinjuku 新宿
The largest transport hub in the city, with everything from tiny bars to a national garden.
Minato 港区
Embassies, towers and new complexes — Roppongi, Azabudai and Tokyo Tower sit here.
Ueno 上野
A large park, most of the city's major museums, and a market street under the tracks.
Sumida 墨田区
East of the river, anchored by Tokyo Skytree.
Chūō 中央区
Ginza, Nihonbashi and the Tsukiji outer market.
Kōtō 江東区
Waterfront wards east of the centre, including Toyosu.
Chiyoda 千代田区
The imperial palace grounds, Tokyo Station and Akihabara.
Urayasu (Chiba) 浦安市
Outside Tokyo, in neighbouring Chiba Prefecture. Home of Tokyo Disney Resort.
How Tanoshi works
From a video you liked to a day that works.
1
Discover
Find something exciting through Tanoshi Scout videos and guides, or inside the app once it arrives.
2
Understand
See what makes it worth visiting, which station to aim for, and what useful resources are nearby.
3
Go
Open official ticket pages and live directions, and spend the day with fewer unanswered questions.
Where we are
Tanoshi is being built now.
We're beginning with Tokyo and developing the experience carefully — starting with destination discovery, practical travel information, saved places, and tools for organising a day.
- Working now
Tokyo experience and visual system
The web version is live on this site.
- Working now
Places and discovery tools
A curated collection with sources, stations and facility records.
- Working now
Saved places and day planning
Saved on your device. No account, no sync between devices yet.
- In development
Expanding the collection
More places, more neighbourhoods, and verifying facilities in person.
- Coming later
Initial iPhone release
No date confirmed. Waitlist members hear first.
No launch date has been set, and we would rather say so than guess. “Working now” means you can use it on this website today.
Practical guides
All guidesTokyo and the Big Cities
Tokyo is not one city. It is a set of dense centres strung along train lines, each with its own character, and the versi…
Kyoto, Temples and Shrines
Kyoto holds more than a thousand temples and shrines, was the imperial capital for over a millennium, and is the single …
Small Towns and Countryside
Around ninety percent of Japan's visitors follow roughly the same route between Tokyo and Osaka. The rest of the country…
Tanoshi Scout on video
Watch the adventure. Use Tanoshi to find your own.
Our videos capture the energy, humour, food, neighbourhoods and unexpected moments that make Japan unforgettable. The Tanoshi App is being built to help you take the next step—from seeing a place to actually experiencing it.
Where we are today
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