diff --git a/tokio/src/fs/exists.rs b/tokio/src/fs/exists.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d6fa5ba03d8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tokio/src/fs/exists.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+use std::path::Path;
+
+/// Returns `true` if the path points at an existing entity.
+///
+/// This function will traverse symbolic links to query information about the
+/// destination file.
+///
+/// # Examples
+///
+/// ```rust,no_run
+/// # use tokio::fs;
+///
+/// # #[tokio::main]
+/// # async fn main() {
+/// let exists = fs::exists("/some/file/path.txt").await;
+/// // in case the `/some/file/path.txt` points to existing path
+/// assert_eq!(exists, true);
+/// # }
+/// ```
+///
+/// # Note
+///
+/// This method returns false in case of errors thus ignoring them. Use [`fs::metadata`][super::metadata()]
+/// if you want to check for errors.
+pub async fn exists(path: impl AsRef<Path>) -> bool {
+    super::metadata(&path).await.is_ok()
+}
diff --git a/tokio/src/fs/mod.rs b/tokio/src/fs/mod.rs
index d4f00749028..990158287c5 100644
--- a/tokio/src/fs/mod.rs
+++ b/tokio/src/fs/mod.rs
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ pub use self::create_dir_all::create_dir_all;
 mod dir_builder;
 pub use self::dir_builder::DirBuilder;
 
+mod exists;
+pub use self::exists::exists;
+
 mod file;
 pub use self::file::File;