Yoyogi Park

Yoyogi park is just a park.

Yoyogi is just a normal park. You don't go through it to enter Meiji Jingu, so there's really no need to visit unless there's an event or flea market you want to check out.

I advised skipping the places that I did (even though they're wildly popular) because you'll see much more impressive religious structures in Kyoto and the places you listed are popular only because of their locations: people rave about the mundane Meiji Shrine and Yoyogi Park only because they're essentially right next to the most popular train route

people rave about the mundane Meiji Shrine and Yoyogi Park only because they're essentially right next to the most popular train route going between two of the most popular train stations. However, there's nothing special about either of the places

Yoyogi Park (*ca.* 60 years old) and Meiji Shrine (106 years old, I think) a neither anything special, especially compared with what you'll see in Kyoto.

Yoyogi Park: A faux Western Park that's only 50 years old.

Yoyogi is just a normal big park. Unless there's an event you want to attend, you have Aoyama Cemetery, Meiji Jingu Gaien, Shinjuku Central Park and Shinjuku Gyoen as more interesting green spaces.

I really don't think Yoyogi is worth visiting for tourists especially not on the same day as Shinjuku Gyoen... Yoyogi is handy to Meji Jingu yes but its not that impressive as a park; its a lot of flat open grass and some trees, mostly.

Yoyogi is just a normal park.