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Taiko Group Drum Tao Will Rock Tokyo With a New Performance This Autumn

Taiko Group Drum Tao Will Rock Tokyo With a New Performance This Autumn

A new and exciting entertainment show is going to overcome you with its energy this autumn 2017. From September 16 to October 29 the innovative tai...

Nakano Broadway, a Charmingly Retro Subculture Mecca in Tokyo

Tokyo Subculture Mecca: Nakano Broadway

How would Akihabara look if it was all condensed into one building? The answer lies in the colorful distr...

Tokyo Hip Neighborhoods: Nakameguro

A Day in Nakameguro: Of Cherry Blossoms, Hip Cafes and Small Dogs

The name of this quiet Tokyo district usually evokes two things in people's minds: popular cherry b...

Tokyo: 3 Standing Soba Restaurants to Try

Want to Try Tachigui Soba? 3 Standing Soba Restaurants to Get You Started

Tokyo is full of them. You might have spotted one on a busy train station platform or tucked away in a dark a...

Stay at Taiyoji, an Isolated Buddhist Temple Just Outside Tokyo

Stay at Taiyoji, an Isolated Buddhist Temple Just Outside Tokyo

Imagine an ancient Buddhist temple perched on top of a mountain. Surrounded by nature and peace, away fr...

Explore Kagurazaka, Where France Meets Traditional Japan

Explore Kagurazaka, Where France Meets Traditional Japan

Kagurazaka's history is quite unique. In the Edo period it flourished as a hanamachi, a geisha town...

10 Secrets You'll Want to Experience in Oboke and Iya

10 Secrets You'll Want to Experience in Oboke and Iya

Deep within the Shikoku mountains, there is Oboke and Iya. This place is a secluded village surrounded b...

Get to Know a Buddhist Nun at a Local Temple

Get to Know a Buddhist Nun at a Local Temple

If you had to choose, what words would you use to describe Buddhism in Japan? After visiting some of the fa...

A Beginner’s Guide to Sento

A Beginner’s Guide to Sento

by guest writer Stephanie Crohin (sento journalis)Sento or public bathhouses are an attractive part o...

Order a Cocktail from a Monk at Vow's Bar in Nakano

Order a Cocktail from a Monk at Vow's Bar in Nakano

by guest writer Laura Loss"Why," asked the Japanese man sitting at the counter, absently st...

Osechi—the New Year’s Cuisine with Ingredients Said to Attract Good Luck

Osechi—the New Year’s Cuisine with Ingredients Said to Attract Good Luck

by SHUN GATEOriginally published December 2016The main food associated with Japan’s New Year i...