Tokyo is a city that never stops evolving, with new attractions appearing year after year, offering more and more different surprises with each visit. The “Let’s Go! Japan” editorial team has compiled a list of new attractions worth exploring in Tokyo in 2025, including the urban park “Ginza Sony Park” in Ginza, the futuristic “Takanawa Gateway City,” and the expanded “teamLab Planets TOKYO” in Toyosu, among other new facilities.
Contents
- Introduction to New Tokyo Attractions in 2025
- Top 8 New Tokyo Attractions for 2025
- [Ginza] Ginza Sony Park: An Urban “Void” Landscape Park
- [Takanawa Gateway] Takanawa Gateway City: The Largest Mixed-Use Facility in Central Tokyo (Opening sequentially from March 2025)
- [Akihabara] ecute Akihabara: A Futuristic Shopping Experience (Opening April 2025)
- [Toyosu] New teamLab Planets TOKYO Area: 3 Dreamy New Exhibition Spaces
- [Harajuku] Harajuku QUEST: A New Landmark Where Trends and Art Intersect (Opening Spring 2025)
- [Ikebukuro] Seibu Ikebukuro Main Store: Largest Renovation in History (Reopening in 2025)
- [Kameari] Kochikame (Katsushika Rhapsody in Blue) Museum
- [Tama City] Sanrio Puroland: A New “Interactive Experience” Facility Where Kids Become Designers and Pastry Chefs
Introduction to New Tokyo Attractions in 2025
Even though Tokyo is already a mature and developed city, it is not content with the status quo and constantly strives for change and development. In 2025, you can witness the emergence of attractions that utilize technology and offer a taste of future living, such as “Takanawa Gateway City” and “ecute Akihabara”; places that bring art and relaxation to those living in the urban jungle, like “Ginza Sony Park” and the “new teamLab Planets TOKYO area”; facilities that cater to tourists’ shopping and gourmet food needs, such as “Harajuku QUEST” and “Seibu Ikebukuro Main Store”; and spots where you can experience the soft power of Japanese manga and characters, like the “Kochikame Museum” and “Sanrio Puroland.” These new additions showcase an even more captivating appeal for tourism!
Top 8 New Tokyo Attractions for 2025
[Ginza] Ginza Sony Park: A “Yohaku” (Blank Space) Landscape Park in the City
Opened on January 26, 2025, “Ginza Sony Park” is an urban park created by the renowned company Sony in Ginza. The facility is intentionally designed to be only half the height of standard buildings in Ginza, creating more open space in the high-density urban environment and forming a brand new cityscape. The entire park incorporates unique architectural concepts such as “intersecting architecture” and “vertical promenades,” making the appreciation of the building itself a great pleasure.
This park is unique in that it doesn’t have permanent stores. Instead, various events are held on each floor depending on the time, such as creative interactive experience exhibitions by invited artists and photo exhibitions of their artists such as YOASOBI. The B3 floor is a casual dining area for “food events,” while the open spaces on the ground floor and the “yohaku” (blank space) within the park allow people to freely stroll, relax, and enjoy the spacious and free rhythm of this city.
And currently, the “Sony Park Exhibition 2025” at Ginza Sony Park is a hot topic all over social media! The exhibition blends Sony’s music, gaming, entertainment, and technology elements, inviting six popular artists – YOASOBI, Hitsujibungaku, Vaundy, BABYMONSTER, Creepy Nuts, and Kensuke Ushio – to create interactive experiences where creativity and high technology spark new inspiration. Whether you want to explore art, experience innovation, or simply stroll through Ginza, a visit to Ginza Sony Park is highly recommended!
Ginza Sony Park
Address: 5-3-1 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
Business Hours: 11:00 AM - 7:00 PM
[Takanawa Gateway] Takanawa Gateway City: The Largest Mixed-Use Facility in Central Tokyo (Opening Sequentially from March 2025)
Perhaps you’ve never gotten off at “Takanawa Gateway Station” on the Yamanote Line when visiting Tokyo before, but the “Takanawa Gateway City,” the largest mixed-use facility in central Tokyo opening here in 2025, will definitely attract you to stop by. Takanawa Gateway City inherits the history of the Takanawa area as the “gateway to Edo” and Japan’s first sea railway route, transforming it into a “living experiment for the future 100 years” that integrates innovation, culture, and greenery.
The main facilities include Japan’s largest green office building, and the station will feature park-like green spaces and markets, incorporating light and sound art performances to create a unique atmosphere. There will also be the NEWoMan Takanawa shopping mall, a Marriott hotel, the largest international convention center in central Tokyo, and a “Culture Building” designed by renowned architect Kengo Kuma. What’s most exciting is the introduction of AI smart transportation and self-driving robots within the area, with plans to introduce air taxis in the future. The future world that people imagine has the potential to be realized in this city!
Takanawa Gateway City
Address: Konan 2, Shibaura 4, Takanawa 2, Mita 3, Minato City, Tokyo
[Akihabara] ecute Akihabara: A Futuristic Shopping Experience (Opening April 2025)
When riding trains in Japan, you’ll likely notice the commercial facilities called “ecute” located within many stations, offering shopping and dining. The “ecute Akihabara,” opening in April 2025, is different from traditional station-attached shopping malls. It integrates AI, robots, and virtual technology to provide customers with a smart, convenient, and futuristic shopping experience.
Among these features, “robots” are definitely a major highlight! This marks the first time that AI robots will take on reception and guidance roles within a commercial facility. The robots are equipped with a large-scale language model, enabling them to provide customer service, product inquiries, and emergency responses, thereby enhancing the shopping experience and safety. In addition to physical stores, “ecute Akihabara” will also offer a virtual shopping experience, allowing customers to enter a virtual space via their smartphones or computers. An original AI guide character, “ecute Chipmunk,” will provide product information and interactive guidance, and multilingual support will be available, making shopping easy for visitors to Japan as well. Next time you visit “ecute Akihabara,” be sure to try out this more intelligent, innovative, and fun shopping experience!
ecute Akihabara
Address: Inside the ticket gates of JR Akihabara Station, 1-chome Sotokanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Business Hours: 11:00 AM - 10:30 PM
[Toyosu] New teamLab Planets TOKYO Area: 3 Super Dreamy New Exhibition Spaces
teamLab Planets TOKYO,” created by Japan’s leading digital art collective teamLab, has garnered international acclaim for its unique and immersive art experiences that are both fun and highly photogenic. It even earned a Guinness World Record for the “most visited museum dedicated to a single art group worldwide.” In early 2025, it launched three brand-new exhibition areas, making it even more irresistible.
The three exhibition areas are: “Athletic Forest,” which requires physical interaction with light and shadow and challenges various physical competitions; “Future Park,” where you can unleash your imagination and let everyone create a new world together; and “Catching and Collecting Forest,” where you can encounter beautiful animals in a dreamy forest and use your smartphone to explore, study, and capture them! Whether you’ve visited teamLab before or not, this new Toyosu area is worth visiting again!
teamLab Planets TOKYO DMM
Address: 6-1-16 Toyosu, Koto-ku, Tokyo Business Hours: Monday-Thursday 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM, Friday 10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, Saturday, day before holidays 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM, Sunday, holidays 9:00 AM - 7:00 PM
[Harajuku] Harajuku QUEST: A New Landmark Where Trends and Art Intersect (Opening Spring 2025)
Walking through Harajuku, Tokyo’s trendsetting mecca, new trends are always emerging. The long-established “Harajuku QUEST” shopping mall, just a three-minute walk from Harajuku Station, will reopen in the spring of 2025 after renovations. It will house brands and restaurants that showcase Harajuku’s unique style, and is expected to bring a new shopping and leisure experience to Harajuku.
The reborn “Harajuku QUEST” will center around the theme “Re: HARAJUKU CULTURE,” creating a walkway between the low-rise and high-rise buildings that directly connects Omotesando to Ura-Harajuku, becoming an important passage linking Harajuku’s cultural aspects. When you’re tired from shopping, you can take a break on the rooftop cafe terrace of the high-rise building, which offers distant views of Meiji Jingu Shrine, Yoyogi Park, and the zelkova trees lining Omotesando. The emergence of “Harajuku QUEST” adds another unmissable new landmark to this district where fashion and culture intersect, making Harajuku’s appeal even richer and more diverse!
Harajuku QUEST
Address: 1-13-14, 13-21 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
[Ikebukuro] Seibu Ikebukuro Main Store: Largest Renovation in History (Reopening in 2025)
The iconic department store “Seibu Ikebukuro Main Store” at the East Exit of Ikebukuro Station will undergo its largest renovation in history in January 2025! The focus of this renovation revolves around “luxury brands,” “cosmetics and skincare,” and the “department store’s food hall.” The “art” element, which has always been emphasized in the store, will also be retained. The space will not only become more stylish, but also give shoppers an extraordinary and prestigious experience.
The “luxury brands” floor will expand by approximately 1.3 times its current size and will gather around 60 world-renowned brands. The “cosmetics and skincare” area will introduce about 60 domestic and international brands, including popular gender-neutral brands, catering to the needs of various demographics. The “department store food hall” is a major upgrade highlight, with approximately 180 shops moving in, including many new brands, offering a wider variety of culinary choices. The future Seibu Ikebukuro is expected to deliver a more upscale and richer shopping experience, making it highly anticipated!
Seibu Ikebukuro Main Store
Address: 1-28-1 Minami-Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo
Business Hours: Monday to Saturday 10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, Sundays and holidays 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM
[Kameari] Kochikame (Katsushika Rhapsody in Blue) Museum
The “Kochikame Museum” is a tourist facility themed around the classic Japanese national manga “Kochikame (Katsushika Rhapsody in Blue).” The museum aims to revitalize Kameari, the district in Tokyo’s Katsushika Ward where the manga’s stories take place, and through its exhibitions, introduce visitors to this charming, down-to-earth neighborhood.
Speaking of “Kochikame,” the character everyone is most familiar with is undoubtedly Kankichi Ryotsu, the perpetually troublesome and mischievous protagonist with thick black eyebrows resembling the McDonald’s “M.” This facility continues the manga’s humorous style. The first floor is designed to resemble a police station, but this is no ordinary exhibition space! It’s said that Ryotsu actually built his own memorial hall above the police station, infuriating the chief and causing Ryotsu to flee. He also left behind various comical traces throughout the hall. Visitors can feel like they’re solving a case as they follow clues to explore this special exhibition space, experiencing the charm of the manga and the unique atmosphere of Kameari!
Kochikame Museum
Address: 3-32-17 Kameari, Katsushika-ku, Tokyo
Business Hours: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (Closed on the 3rd Tuesday of each month)
[Tama City] Sanrio Puroland: A New “Interactive Experience” Facility Where Kids Become Designers and Pastry Chefs
Sanrio Puroland, loved by both adults and children, will launch a brand new interactive experience facility in the spring of 2025. This facility will allow children to become character designers, pastry chefs, or fashion designers, unleashing their creativity in Hello Kitty’s dreamy art studio, stimulating their imagination and expressive abilities, and experiencing special “jobs” that can only be found here!
This new facility offers three main themed experiences, including “Character Designer,” where children can create their own original characters by selecting hairstyles, outfits, and other elements, fostering design and expression skills. In “Character Pastry Chef,” they can personally make adorable character-themed sweets, such as creative parfaits, learning about food and unleashing their creativity in decorating. “Character Fashion Designer” allows them to experience designing character outfits and coordinating stylish looks for their own dolls, learning the fun of fashion design. Depending on the chosen experience, they can even wear corresponding costumes and take their finished creations home as souvenirs. When planning a family trip to Tokyo, be sure to include Sanrio Puroland in your itinerary!
Sanrio Puroland
Address: 1-31 Ochiai, Tama City, Tokyo
Business Hours: 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
The diverse city of Tokyo is perfect for travelers with all kinds of purposes. Whether you’re traveling with family, friends, or even solo, the 8 new attractions in Tokyo for 2025 cover various genres such as entertainment, shopping, experiences, and leisure, and are sure to satisfy your Tokyo travel experience!