First Avenue Tokyo Station — Local services in Tokyo

Tokyo station (東京駅) is simply huge and includes restaurants and shops of all kinds. To visit them you don't need to go through the ticket gates. Various subway, train and shinkansen lines meet here at the station. If you're catching your shinkansen from here or are transferring between trains it's very important to know that there are various entrances and the transfer times can take up to half an hour, so plan your visit carefully. I would advise to do some research where to enter the station before you go and leave enough time to find your way to your train. Signposting is pretty good and in Japanese and English. If you're transferring and you've got limited time, your quickest bet is to ask one of the friendly,...

If you are in Tokyo, you must visit Tokyo Station which is one of the biggest train station in Japan. Here you can find hundreds of shops and restaurants especially in First Avenue which is one of the main places to shop and eat.

Tons of interesting restaurants and speciality shops. I came here to shop for Tomica cars and here you can find a Tomica shop located at Basement 1. It has most of the Tomica cars and rail collections.

You can basically spent a day visiting all the shops here as they cater to all shoppers....bakery, toys, bags, clothes, Anime, desserts, Japanese made arts...

Lots of shops for various Jap anime and cartoons! Remember to register for tax free with your passport at the tax free counter on the level above before you do your shopping. You will get a cash refund of the tax at the counter afterwards. Also note that there are shops that get the tax procedure done in store (i.e. need to spend the entire tax free amount at that one shop to be entitled for tax free), versus the ones that says to get at tax done at the tax counter (these ones you can combine the spendings at...