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Sendagaya, Tokyo — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Sport and pictures share Sendagaya, a Shibuya area of Tokyo holding the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium and the Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery.
About Sendagaya
Where to stay in Sendagaya
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Beds divide between the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium end and the quieter museum blocks around the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, and the walk between the two takes little enough that the difference is one of atmosphere rather than distance. Event weeks fill fast. Anyone here for the Japan Olympic Museum or the Prince Chichibu Memorial Sports Museum will want the gymnasium side.
Others prefer the streets nearer the Ōta Memorial Museum of Art.
About Sendagaya
What are the main landmarks in Sendagaya?
Museums outnumber everything else here. The Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery, the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, the Sato Museum of Art, and the Ōta Memorial Museum of Art give four separate collections inside one small area, with TEPIA among them. The Japan Olympic Museum and the Prince Chichibu Memorial Sports Museum keep the sporting record.
Jesus Lifehouse International Church draws its own congregation.
What is the history of Sendagaya?
Records for Sendagaya begin in 1904. What the area gathered afterwards reads as a list of institutions rather than industries, from the Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery to the Japan Olympic Museum, each drawing its own kind of visitor. Its ward is Shibuya.
The Prince Chichibu Memorial Sports Museum carries a prince's name, and the Castanopsis sieboldii of Meiji Park stands on the same short list of named sites.
Where is Sendagaya?
Sendagaya lies within Shibuya, one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, and Meiji Park supplies the green along its side.
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Updated September 2026