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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.
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Where to stay in Sendagaya
How the choice of base plays out on the ground.
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.
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Around the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium
Sports ground where the Japan Olympic Museum and the Prince Chichibu Memorial Sports Museum fill the hours between sessions.Find hotels in Around the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasiumcontemporary shows at the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art and the Sato Museum of ArtThe Watari museum streets
Low-traffic Sendagaya blocks linking the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, the Sato Museum of Art, and TEPIA. Rooms are few around here — worth securing early.Find hotels in The Watari museum streetswalkers making for the Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery and Meiji ParkToward Meiji Park
The green edge holding the Castanopsis sieboldii of Meiji Park, with the Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery a short walk on.Find hotels in Toward Meiji ParkHotel links are affiliate links: booking through them may earn us a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never affects how places are ranked. How this works
Things to do in and around Tokyo
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Museums & Galleries
3- Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery Heritage
- Watari Museum of Contemporary Art
- Ōta Memorial Museum of Art
Churches & Religious Sites
3- Jesus Lifehouse International Church
- Lifehouse Osaka
- Lifehouse International Church Yokohama
Stadiums & Sports
2- Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium
- Tokyo Metropolitan Indoor Swimming Pool
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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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What is the best area to stay in Sendagaya?
Around the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium: match days at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium and the Tokyo Metropolitan Indoor Swimming Pool. The Watari museum streets: contemporary shows at the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art and the Sato Museum of Art. Toward Meiji Park: walkers making for the Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery and Meiji Park.
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Updated October 2026