*POST UPDATED OCTOBER 2026.
Hiiii, friends! Hello! Happy Saturday! I hope this post finds you in the mood for a spot of armchair travelling, because I’m here to share my first Tokyo travel guide with you! As you probably already know, Tokyo is absolutely! ginormous!, and to save ourselves from trekking back and forth and all over the place, Husband and I based ourselves in specific sections & localized everything we did. As such, I’ll be breaking up my overall Tokyo guide into manageable localized sections to save you from gallivanting all over the city. My first post — this one! Four Days in Shinjuku, Tokyo — covers exactly what it says on the tin. I’ll also be sharing two more Tokyo guides: A Morning in Asakusa, and 24 Hours in Shibuya. Yeah — it’s gonna be a good month! Shall we kick it off in style?
My Shinjuku guide begins below. For ease, I’ve divided it up into easy to read sections: getting there / where we stayed / where we had coffee & pastries / where we ate lunch + dinner / where we drank / where we tourist-ed. Naturally, because I’m me, you’ll also find a fun fact section, because I just love being able to throw random nuggets of information into casual conversation.
Enjoy, friends!
fun facts
I know you love a fun fact as much as I do! Here are 3 Shinjuku-specific ones to have up your sleeve:
Shinjuku Station is the busiest railway station in the whole world! It sees more than a staggering 3.4 million(!!) passengers every. single. day. How mind boggling is that?
related: there are 200 different ways in and out of the station. Oof, now imagine that as the location of a Bourne film. I’m honestly surprised why that hasn’t been done?! Probs too hard to manage, what with the 3.4 million people that use it every day.
Shinjuku has more restaurants than any other district within Tokyo! If you pair that with another fun fact — Tokyo has the most Michelin starred restaurants than any other city in the world! — you’d truly be hard pressed to have a bad meal in the city.
getting there + where we stayed
we took a ‘Limousine Bus’ from Haneda airport to Shinjuku. For full and exact details, please see this post here.
we spent four nights at THE KNOT TOKYO Shinjuku. Based in the Nishi-Shinjuku area, we were pleasantly surprised by what this 3-star hotel had to offer. You can read my full thoughts about this in my last Japan post, here.
where we had coffee & pastries
