Inokashira Park

The experience

A 38-hectare park opened in 1917 as Japan's first suburban park, five minutes' walk from Kichijoji Station. Its centre is a long pond with rowboat, pedal-boat and swan-boat rental, ringed by roughly 400–500 cherry trees whose branches hang out over the water. The Ghibli Museum sits in the park's southern section, and a Benzaiten shrine stands on the pond's edge.

The pond-and-cherry-trees combination, plus Kichijoji's shopping streets right at the gate for afterwards.

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.