Culture Village of the Dolls Allan Murphy "Scarecrow Village" in Japanese. A village repopulated by creative imagination.
Activities Zoshigaya Missionary House & Museum Allan Murphy An interesting piece of American culture in Tokyo's Toshima-ward, near the Zoshigaya cemetery.
6 Culture Night Lights at Tatemono-en Allan Murphy Each year in November: Great "light up" event at Tatemono-en, the Edo-Tokyo Open-Air Architectural Museum.
8 Culture Old Shop Sign Collection, Shinbanba Allan Murphy Incredible collection of old Japanese shop signs, which have been collected since the late-Edo period. This is definitely one ..
Activities Shop Sign Collection in Shinbanba Allan Murphy One of my favorite museums in Tokyo is the Showa Neon Kanban Takamura Goro Museum. It is devoted to late-Edo and Meiji period ..
Activities Manjushage Festival, Koma Allan Murphy For fifty weeks of the year, the town of Koma (just 50 km from Ikebukuro, Tokyo) could be just about anywhere in rural Japan, ..
10 Culture Tokyo no Kage: Shadows in the City Allan Murphy "Drinking from an empty cup" is a Zen koan, a phrase to meditate on, along the lines of having something that isn't there...
Activities Jiyu Gakuen Myonichikan, Ikebukuro Allan Murphy Myonichikan at Jiyu Gakuen (The school of the free spirit) was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1921 and it is one of his only..