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Tokyo (CNN) — Tokyo is arguably one of the most modern cities in the world, a heaving metropolis with its sights set fully on the future.
The Mori Art Museum, for instance, sits atop Mori Tower, one of Tokyo's tallest and most prominent buildings.
(Part of the Roppongi Hills complex, the tower's rooftop Tokyo City View offers views of nearby Tokyo Tower and a 360-degree view of the surrounding neon cityscape.)
Joshua MellinOne of Tokyo's most traditional neighborhoods, historic Asakusa's charms center around the oldest and perhaps most eminent Buddhist temple in the city -- Sensō-ji.
It was followed in 1931 by the Tokyo Museum of Science (the present National Museum of Nature and Science).