Time Out Tokyo summer–autumn 2025 issue out now: 24-hour city
From wolfing down a bowl of super-fresh seafood before sunrise to embarking on an all-night indie club crawl or soaking in an open-air hot spring at 3am, we've got you covered with brilliant things to do at every hour.
Hungry for something different? You're in the right place: Tokyo is widely regarded as one of the world's greatest food cities, and serves as a culinary melting pot where innovative chefs showcase their distinctive and imaginative interpretations of cuisines from around the world. From flawlessly crafted pizzas to boundary-pushing Peruvian cuisine, we've rounded up the best international restaurants to experience in Tokyo right now.
Fruit picking and vegetable harvesting experiences are available outside the city year-round, but are an especially alluring escape from sweltering central Tokyo in the summer. In the mag you'll find our favourite family-friendly farms for crop picking – all within easy reach of the city.
Ah, go-go boys. What's not to love? These professional dancers elevate the energy of any event where they perform, LGBTQ+-related or otherwise. But who are these Adonises when they aren't shaking their stuff on stage? We profile some of the city's best performers.
Heading to Fuji Rock this summer? Check out our festival preview, complete with a guide to the acts you definitely shouldn't miss and an interview with Australian electro-poppers Confidence Man.
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George Square is transformed by venues for Edinburgh's festivals. (Image: Alistair Leith) Nearby churches were turned into venues which ran round-the-clock with music and theatre programmes packed full of international performers. The garden of one of these churches became a favourite place to hang out in between shows on countless balmy summer evenings. But the other local bars and restaurants buzzed with conversation from people from around the world. When September came, and the performers had packed up and left, it was something of a relief, but the streets seemed so much greyer than had been just a few days before. The summer was the start love affair with the festivals that I'm still as passionate about as ever. I have missed just one festival since then, when I inexplicably went on holiday to Bilbao only to find that its own summer festival - which was largely staged after dark - was on. It's since become an unmissable and all-consuming feast for the senses for me. 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