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Tokyo
Alone

A solo travel guide for women 50 and over
By Jennifer Brandt

Tokyo is a federation of neighborhoods, so choose a few. Give Yanaka or Ginza an afternoon, and use the trains between walks instead of trying to cross the whole metropolis.

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Where you might stay

  • BudgetOTHER SPACE Hotel Asakusacompact rooms near Senso-ji Temple
  • Mid-rangeShibuya Stream Hotelon the Yamanote loop
  • A treatThe Tokyo Station Hotelconnected to the station's Marunouchi South Exit

Two places to eat alone

  • Ichiran ShibuyaTonkotsu ramen at individual counters.
  • AFURI HarajukuAsk about counter seating when you arrive.

SAMPLE

The City in One Idea

Greater Tokyo holds somewhere in the range of thirty-five to thirty-seven million people across its metropolitan area, a number so large it stops being useful as a mental image. Set it aside. The Tokyo you will actually experience is a string of walkable districts, each of them sized like a modest city center, connected by a train ride of ten to thirty minutes. Shinjuku’s crowds are a fact of Shinjuku, not a fact about all of Tokyo; walk fifteen minutes off the main crossing in almost any district and the pace drops by half.

Three or four neighborhoods explored properly, such as Yanaka, Ginza and Shibuya, make a fuller week than one that tries to touch every ward. The city’s scale is a reason to choose, not a reason to hurry.

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PRACTICAL SAMPLE

Where to Eat, District by District

Tokyo’s food is organized by neighborhood as firmly as its shopping is, and knowing what each district does well saves you eating badly near a sight.

The densest eating district at every price point is Shinjuku: the yokocho alleys by the tracks for grilled skewers, the department-store basements on the east side for a composed lunch, and the upper floors of the office towers on the west side for set lunches aimed at workers rather than visitors, which is where the value sits at midday.

Ginza rewards lunch more than dinner. The restaurants on the upper floors of the department stores and in the surrounding side streets serve set lunches at a fraction of what the same kitchens charge in the evening, which makes lunch the most economical way to eat well in Ginza. Marunouchi, on the other side of Tokyo Station, works the same way and empties out on weekends.

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Inside this book

  • Tokyo Awaits
  • A City Shaped by History
  • When to Go and How to Plan
  • The Solo Woman’s Tokyo
  • Where to Stay
  • Neighborhood by Neighborhood
View the chapter contents
  • Tokyo Awaits
  • A City Shaped by History
  • When to Go and How to Plan
  • The Solo Woman’s Tokyo
  • Where to Stay
  • Neighborhood by Neighborhood
  • Days in Tokyo
  • Art, Culture & Creativity
  • The Pleasures of the Table
  • Evening & After Dark
  • Retail Therapy
  • Beyond the City: Day Trips
  • Words and Manners
  • Practical Matters

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Tokyo Alone

Tokyo is a federation of neighborhoods, so choose a few. Give Yanaka or Ginza an afternoon, and use the trains between walks instead of trying to cross the whole metropolis.

$6.99 ebook

Buy the ebook, $6.99

Ebook · Updated Q4 2026

Instant download · Secure checkout by Payhip

THE GUIDE + YOUR OWN PLANS

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Includes “Settling In” as a mapped day, with Shinjuku and Shibuya weighed as bases.

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