Culture Tachikawa Yokai Bon Odori 2025 Mid Oct The Tachikawa Yokai Bon Odori will run for three days, and is set to include dancing, a yokai (supernatural spirit) costume competition,..
Culture Top 5 Things to Do in Shiba Elizabeth Wormald A few must-see spots for exploring Shiba district Tokyo. Tourist highlights, a sake specialist and an underrated observatory!
Arts & Crafts Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative... Late Jan - Mid Feb Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2025 honors the Tokyo Photographic Art (TOP) Museum’s 30th anniver..
Culture Seiseki-Sakuragaoka in Tokyo Haruka Saijo Wandering into the world of Studio Ghibli is always an adventure. If you could visit an actual town from a Hayao Miyazaki film,..
Culture Jimbocho Book Festival 2025 Late Oct Certain areas of Tokyo are famous for different things, and the Jimbocho part of the city is renowned for being a bibliophile's..
Culture The Japanese Language Barrier Emma Sletteland My experience moving to Japan without knowing any Japanese, surviving the language barrier, and slowly starting to break it.
Culture Ikegami Honmonji Temple Ikegami Honmon-ji is a temple of the Buddhist sect Nichiren Shū south of Tokyo, which was built where the founder of the Nichiren sect is said to ha..
Culture Okinawa Festival at Yoyogi Park 2025 Mid May Capture the Okinawan beach spirit in the middle of Tokyo's bustling Yoyogi Park at the Okinawa Festival, held every year.