Todoroki Ravine

The experience

The only natural ravine inside Tokyo's 23 wards, cut by the Yazawa River at the southern edge of the Musashino Plateau in Setagaya. A footpath runs about one kilometre along the riverbed below street level, under zelkova, konara oak and dogwood, with the Todoroki Fudoson temple and a small Japanese garden at the far end. It sits roughly 20 metres below the surrounding residential streets.

Ten metres of descent takes the city's noise out entirely — a genuine gorge three minutes from a station.

What a membership adds.

Everything above is free: the name, the photo, the rating, the exact spot. What members get is the part you can't Google: the sourced insider tip for this place (what to order, when to go, what to skip), every day of your trips unlocked in full with the insider tip on every researched stop, and the concierge at full strength, answering with your own insider tips, no daily meter.