Neighborhood 48H guide

Marunouchi & Tokyo Station: Where to Stay & What to Do in 48 Hours

The red-brick station and the Imperial Palace gardens.

Tokyo Station’s Marunouchi building
Photo: Alexandr3126 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Marunouchi is the business district between Tokyo Station’s restored red-brick building and the Imperial Palace, with the East Gardens open to the public.

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Why stay here

Shinkansen to anywhere in Japan and the Narita Express at the door.

Who it's for: Business travellers and day-trippers.

Pros

  • Shinkansen
  • Palace gardens
  • Calm

Cons

  • Quiet weekends
  • Expensive
  • Office district

48H in Marunouchi

Station, palace.

  1. 09:30 – Imperial Palace East Gardens

    Closed Mondays and Fridays; check the calendar.

  2. 18:00 – Tokyo Station

    See the Marunouchi façade lit up.

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Outdoors

Where to stay

Specific named properties—not vague city-wide searches. Expedia stays use tracked Creator links; others open the hotel's official site.

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Vacation rentals

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In Japan, private homes rented to guests (minpaku) must be notified to the local government under the Private Lodging Business Act and may host guests for at most 180 nights a year; Tokyo’s wards can set stricter rules. Book only listings that show a minpaku notification number or a hotel/inn licence.

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