Attractions for Locals Tokyo is home to a huge number of tourist attractions. Carefully maintained traditional buildings like the resplendent Buddhist temple Meiji-jingu in Harajuku and the Imperial Palace have long been iconic images of ...
An Unconventional City Escape Is it strange that my favourite places in Tokyo are often graveyards? The hyper urban environment and working life of Japan’s capital can really put pressure on those living in the ...
Urban Artwork Sometime around the mid 80’s Japan came up with a creative method of drawing in some more local tourism and adding a little more colour to city streets. Local governments started to take ...
Praise Godzilla One of Japan’s most successful and well-loved ambassadors, Godzilla stands at about 100 metres tall and is both literally and figuratively a landmark of Japanese culture. Racking up 36 films since his debut ...
Historical Dramas in Japan I’m a big fan of old-school Samurai films or chanbara, as they are known in Japan. A black-and-white melodrama where swords clash and someone takes ages to die tragically in the ...
A Mecha Anime Legend Mecha anime Gundam blasted its way onto Japanese TV screens at the end of the 70’s, inspiring engineers and robot fans across the world. The series helped define the genre of ...
The Feline Financial Phenomenon When it comes to the business of marketing cuteness, cats have cornered the market in Japan and abroad. As you travel around Japan you’ll be able to find cat cafés in ...
How Japanese zoos are taking care of their animals during lockdown Creatures in crisis Corona and isolation have been hitting different business and stores with different challenges, particularly places that really rely on visitors like ...
The arcades of Tokyo have a deserved reputation for both high quality and creativity, but as the gaming industry moves forwards these entertainment centres are slowly starting to slip away, or at least have their ...
Japan is a country characterized by four distinct seasons. Winter, spring, summer, autumn (also collectively known in Japanese as shunkashūtō): every time you’ll step foot in Japan, you will find a wide array of seasonal ...
