The Ultimate Guide To Tokyo
With rainy season now in full swing it looks like we'll have another wet weekend. So grab your 100yen umbrella and check out some of the events that will be on. The gradual rise in temperature and ample moisture means Tokyo's summer insects are …
Welcome to Cheapo Weekender - a new weekly feature on Tokyo Cheapo rounding up some of the free and low cost activities on around Tokyo over the coming weekend. Festivals As we're on the cusp of rainy season, the major seasonal festivals at …
As I'm not very interested in the brand stores that line Omotesando, I couldn't help noticing the little coffee truck parked just off the main drag on a side street next to the Benetton shop. This is one of four Motoya vans (I was only able to …
Summer evenings in Japan are a great time of year to enjoy a few beers and otsumami (snacks consumed with drinks) with friends in the open air. Aside from expensive restaurants with terraces, there are two popular options - rooftop beer …
The big format supermarkets like OK are all very well if you're out in the suburbs, but if you find yourself in central Tokyo, you'll find your options a lot more limited. With the smaller format supermarkets like Maruetsu Petit and Precce …
Harajuku is famous for its street fashion. Pop stars Lady Gaga, Gwen Stefani and Kimbra all state the influence of Japanese fashion and visit the area when they are in town. A recent trip to the famous Takeshita Dori by Lady Gaga sent the …
There are cheaper places to eat in Tokyo, but unlike places like Sukiya and Yoshinoya, Ootoya offers a wide variety of Japanese teishoku (meal sets) that are healthy, cheap and authentic. At 820yen, the teishoku I ordered was actually one of the …
Tokyo is a major venue for food and drink related trade shows. The huge and affluent Japanese market is a big draw to foreign food exporters and also events aimed at the domestic hospitality industry are enormous in scale. The two major venues …
"Tachiyomi" literally means "standing reading" and describes the practice of going to a bookshop and standing there reading the magazines or books. In my native NZ, within 5 minutes of me entering a bookshop and opening up a magazine, a not so …
With the hard economic times of late there's been a revolution in the pricing of this malt beverage in Tokyo. Although there are smaller and larger variants, the standard for serving beer in Japan is the 'chuu jockey' glass which holds about 1 …
This was one of the installations at Roppongi Art Night which was held recently. The event itself is free and spread over three locations in Roppongi/Akasaka. This particular piece of art outside the National Art Center Tokyo caught my eye as …
Discount ticket shops have been around for about as long as there have been tickets. Typically you'll find them under elevated railway tracks, or squeezed into small spaces between buildings. The deals seem impossibly good but the grimy …
'Polite', 'clean', 'tasty', 'pleasant' and 'safe' aren't words that fit together nicely with 'cheap'. You're probably expecting words like 'nasty', 'seedy', 'dangerous', 'dirty' and 'low quality'—but that's the beauty of being a cheapo in …