Meguro Wedding Hall (Meguro Gajoen)

One look at the ads on virtually any subway car will tell you that wedding halls are big business in Tokyo. For better or for worse, Gajoen is one of the biggest, and as a study in anthropology you can hardly beat it. ‘Wedding hall’ doesn’t do justice to its many storeys of chapels, banquet halls, expensive restaurants and hotel rooms. The impossibly long corridor connecting them is lined with friezes of geisha and samurai, and often festooned with flowers, while floor-to-ceiling windows look out on a drop-dead gorgeous hillside garden. Even if there aren’t wedding bells in your future, it’s definitely worth stopping by for a look.