Ueno Zoo

The zoo, the national science museum and four more museums, and Shinobazu Pond, with lotus in summer.

A Le Corbusier building on the UNESCO World Heritage list, with Rodin's The Thinker outside and more than 6,000 works inside.

A Sanrio cafe on the ground floor of a building by Ueno Park, with the characters on the plates and drinks, a kids' menu and plushes to borrow for photos.

Suites and family rooms that each have a kitchen, several set up with bunk beds and suites sleeping up to six, and a top-floor bath looking out on Shinobazu Pond.

A life-size blue whale and a D51 steam locomotive outside, and a T. rex and a Triceratops inside.

Japan's oldest museum, founded in 1872, with samurai swords and armor and a garden with five traditional teahouses.