If you're wondering what to do in Tokyo in 3 days, I'm here to help you figure out how to tackle it. Tokyo is a city well worth exploring, but it's also a city where it's worth your time to formulate a game plan, or at least have a general idea.

Recently, I've been trying to construct posts that provide genuine value to my readers, such as my immensely popular post on "How to Spend 3 Weeks in Vietnam." Back in the day (we're talking 2009), my travel blog served as a pseudo diary for me, but nowadays, I want to use my travel experience to help others travel as efficiently and successfully as possible. As a side-note, while I'm not at the very top of this recent list, it's cool to know that I'm now considered to have one of the world's top travel blogs.

This post didn't materialize out of nowhere. I can't tell you the amount of emails I've received over the years about a Tokyo itinerary or people asking, "Chris, how many days in Tokyo?" I think this is largely because I used to live in Korea, and visited Japan several times.

I actually have two old posts on Tokyo that I'll partially draw from to create this. They're more story oriented though with a narrative focus, as was my style back then. For better or worse, there's not much room for that in the travel blogging sphere these days.

In this post we're going to get down to business to ensure that you get the information you need to tackle this incredible city. There's a lot to do in Tokyo—take, real life Mario Kart racing for example! I also didn’t include Tokyo DisneySea in this guide, but that may also be something you want to check out.

NOTE: This post may contain some affiliate links. That means, simply, that I may get commissions from some of my recommendations. That being said, my opinions are fully my own.

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