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Can tourists visit the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly building?
The assembly chamber itself is viewable when not in session, but you'll want to check the 都議会 schedule and enter via the west building entrance.
also worth noting the chamber viewing closes during plenary sittings so check the 本会議 schedule, not just the general calendar
west entrance closes 5pm so go before that
Observatory deck, 9F, no booking needed.
9F deck closes at 4:30 tho, get there before
Last entry 4:15 actually
Security screening at the west entrance is quick but they do check bags, so leave the big camera backpack at the hotel. Weekday mornings are quieter than weekends. Fwiw the ground floor lobby has a small exhibit on the building's history thats easy to miss.
good call on teh backpack. that lobby exhibit is small but has a nice old photo of the 1991 construction. heads up tho, the assembly is dissolved during election periods so the chamber viewing can be closed, worth checking the 都議会 calendar first.
yeah the bag check is real, they'll ask you to open it. that lobby exhibit is in the corner past the info counter, easy to walk right by. weekday mornings before 10 are dead quiet there
That exhibit also has a free stamp for your 御城印 collection, tucked on the table by the window.
Wildlife near Nature Park Tokyo 2026: what actually shows up?
honestly the tanuki on the north loop past the pond are bold now and the itachi mostly clear out the mice near the bamboo grove by 6am
yeah the itachi are out early but its the kiji-bato and karasu taking over the food scraps thats teh real change
The north loop tanuki are denning under the fenced shed by the west gate now, which is why they don't scatter when you pass.
That shed's been padlocked since April so they've shifted to the drainage culvert behind the west gate toilets.
fair point on the culvert. i've been seeing scat along teh top of it most mornings now, more than a couple piles. think theyre using it as a latrine not a den tbh
saw a whole family on the east path last week