From the performances of sixteenthcentury plays to sold-out concerts by popular American rock bands, Tokyo is a city with a wide range of arts and entertainment. Between the skyscrapers, commuter trains, and crowded sidewalks, the city is ornamented with thousands of parks, gardens, temples, shrines, museums, and even a Tokyo Disneyland, visited by more than 10 million people a year. The city is also famous for its shopping districts, especially the Ginza neighborhood, renowned, according to Reiber, for its "multitude of department stores, boutiques, exclusive restaurants, hotels, art galleries... clubs, and drinking establishments."

Several districts are also famous for their entertainment offerings, and each has its own atmosphere. In Tokyo Guide , Fusillo and Araki explain:

Each entertainment district has its own feel. Ginza is very establishment, popular with middle-aged businessmen and up. Akasaka is a real hodgepodge: geisha houses catering to titans of industry and...