The Ultimate Guide To Tokyo
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See our guide to Tokyo Halloween celebrations 2016. Gather round, cheapo ghoulies and ghosties; the haunting season has arrived! Rehearse your most blood-curdling screams, pick up your cape from the dry cleaner, unearth your robes from the …
The dog days of summer are upon us, and what better way to escape the heat than in a cool, dark, air-conditioned theater with a frosty drink in hand and some boom bang on the big screen? But movie ticket prices are steep in Japan, clocking in …
Stepping out among the well-heeled denizens of Omotesando is enough to make even the most well-kempt cheapo feel a little grubby. Luckily, there’s a well-placed sento just steps from the station—a pretty public bath where you can get spiffy for …
Today we venture to suburban Yokohama, along the Den-en-toshi Line, for delicious, wholesome and healthy hippie food. Both of today's cafés are not exclusively vegan or vegetarian, but do offer veg options for folks of those persuasions. Both …
If you ask people what food comes to mind when you say "Harajuku", crêpes will probably come up—no food is more synonymous with the teen mecca. Pro tip: Go deeper into the colorful, wacky streets on a guided kawaii food tour of Harajuku. Filled …
Strrrrrike! Though bowling and boring sound suspiciously similar when katakanized, it doesn’t have to be a drag! We recently went Tokyo bowling after a lengthy hiatus and it was pretty fun, even though our left butt cheeks were mysteriously sore …
The Tokyo Ueno New Izu Hotel (what a mouthful) is a conveniently located budget hotel just a few minutes from Ueno Station. The most affordable option is a single with shared bathroom priced at around 5000 yen for people who don't mind a little …
January and February are the coldest, dreariest months in Tokyo after December finally wrests winter from the hands of fall and delivers it in time for the new year. Here are some events to take your mind off the cold and celebrate the Year of …
Tokyo may seem shiny-shiny and new - and parts of it are. It can feel like everyone has new stuff all the time and you certainly wouldn't be the first one to look, agape, at what people are putting on the curb for trash pickup. In a country that …
From the outside, it may look like an apartment complex, but House Ikebukuro is actually a guest house-style hotel with 22 clean Japanese style rooms. If you want to get a feel for how it might be to live in a guest house or a Japanese studio …
This little nubbin of a hotel has only 18 small but modern rooms and shared toilets but it's dead cheap with singles starting at only . Family-owned, you won't be lining the pockets of real estate moguls or badly-behaved sex-tape-making trust …
With the dollar stronger than ever (at time of writing, 90 USD will buy you 10,700 yen), now is a great time to visit Japan and get a big bang for your buck. We’ve done three days in Tokyo on 125 USD… now let’s try three nights in Tokyo for 90 …
Heyyy all my Tokyo yogis (Tokyogis? No? OK, we’ll let that one go). Do you like to stretch it out but balk at the price of all the schmancy studios around town? Sure, you can always downward-dog it up in your bedroom or practice tree pose in a …
