Summertime means a stream of international festivals at the event square in Yoyogi Park, a lively collection of good food, good music, good shopping, interesting performances, and some imported beer to top it all off. With that criteria, the Japan-In..
Even in a city as large and cosmopolitan as Tokyo, certain foods can be hard to find if you don't know where to look. Something that I'd been craving (and had greatly missed!) for quite some time were falafels. Patties made of chickpeas and b..
We eat seeds all the time. Yet, from spitting sunflower shells at baseball games to happily munching everything bagels in the morning, we rarely notice the beauty behind what we’re actually consuming. [photo id='187861'] Tree by NAKED yoyogi pa..
A bowl of soup is great comfort food, and some kinds of soup - chicken soup, borscht and tomato soup - are not only soothing but touted as remedies for all kinds of ailments. Soup Plus, a tiny shop just off Omotesando, goes a little further with its ..
Faced with a late night and early next-day departure from Tokyo one time, I decided (as I often do) that it would be easier to stay in town rather than go home then get up early and come back in again for my bus. Not needing luxury I looked for somew..
The Fresh Share House Jingumae in Shibuya is one of many beautiful share houses in Tokyo, nestled in a quiet little area ten minutes away from Shibuya crossing. I know- ‘quiet’ and ‘Shibuya’ don’t tend to go together, bu..
This grand hotel towers above its neighbors in the business end of Shibuya. On a fine day you can see Mount Fuji on one side and Tokyo Tower on the other side, and it is just a five minute walk west of the station. It is therefore also only a short w..
I arrived in Japan on September 3rd with an interesting mix of unease and excitement. Here I was, a Gaijin (foreigner) who didn't speak a word of Japanese and knew very little about Japanese culture, entering Tokyo's maw. Things could go sple..
The American shared workspace company, WeWork, launched its 6th Tokyo location in August 2018 – promising to be one of its most glamorous locations yet. Born out of New York in 2010, the WeWork shared office empire now spans 87 cities in 23 cou..
The following set of locations that are featured in Your Name are a little bit more off the radar in the film, but they still show where Makoto Shinkai drew inspiration from. These real-life locations also makes Taki and Mitsuha’s journey feel ..
![The Amazing "Purikura" Machines](https://a1.cdn.japantravel.com/photo/5054-33092/90x60!/tokyo-the-amazing-purikura-machines-33092.jpg "The Amazing "Purikura" Machines")
