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Photo quests in Tokyo

What the catalogue actually holds here, and which of it is worth rearranging a day around.

Tokyo holds three quests, one in each of Food, Party and Sport.

One is tier 1, the tier kept for what a visitor would not have found on their own: Ryogoku Kokugikan. It is also the only quest here whose check-in asks for PRO; the other two are open on any plan.

A food quest names the dish rather than the restaurant: the pin sits on the room that serves it, but what you are going for is the plate. Party is the group where the hour decides everything: the same address is a landmark at midnight and an empty street at six. Every check-in works the same way: the geotag your camera wrote into the photo has to land within 200 m of the quest's own point.

Tokyo is a short list for now — three quests is exactly the floor a city needs to have a page here at all. It grows when the pipeline publishes into Tokyo again, and nothing about this page has to change for that to happen.

By category

Each of these opens the whole category across every city, with the Tokyo quests among them.


Tier 1

The unexpected ones

The one quests in Tokyo the catalogue files as finds rather than fixtures — the half of a city a guidebook has no room for.


Nearby

Cities near Tokyo

Ranked by distance rather than by border, because from here the next useful stop is often the one in the next country.


Questions

About quests in Tokyo

How many photo quests are there in Tokyo?
3, across Food, Sport and Party. Nothing in History, Nature, Art and Beach here yet — a category appears in a city the moment a quest is published into it, so the gaps move. They are: Sushi, Ryogoku Kokugikan and Rainbow Karaoke.
What is there to do in Tokyo beyond the obvious?
One of the 3 quests in Tokyo is tier 1, which is the catalogue's own mark for a find rather than a landmark: the pipeline that writes it is told that tier 3 is "everything a visitor would expect a travel app to have", and that tiers 1 and 2 are "only the unexpected finds". Tokyo holds one at tier 1, two at tier 2 and none at tier 3. The tier 1 quest here is Ryogoku Kokugikan, in Sport.
Can you do all the Tokyo quests on one trip?
Most of them, with transport. The outermost of the 3 is 9.3 km from the middle of the Tokyo list, so the cluster in the middle is an afternoon and the edges are a bus or a taxi each.
Which Tokyo quests can you do for free?
2 of the 3 can be checked in on the free plan, and all 3 can be read and travelled to without paying anything — the catalogue is open signed out, on every plan. PRO covers the check-in on the hardest tier, which in Tokyo means one quest: Ryogoku Kokugikan.
How do I prove I visited a place in Tokyo?
Take the photo at the place and upload it. Your browser reads the location the camera wrote into that file and measures it against the quest's own coordinates; inside 200 m the check-in counts. The distance is measured to the point, not to the city: being in Tokyo is not what is checked, and a photo taken across town from Sushi fails exactly the way one taken at home does. A file with no location in it cannot be checked at all, and a photo that has been through a messaging app usually arrives that way — upload the original out of the camera roll rather than a copy someone sent back to you. The Food quests in Tokyo sit on the room where the dish is served rather than on the dish, so that address is what the 200 m is measured from.