The Ultimate Guide To Tokyo
** This store is permanently closed ** Why haven’t I known about this? Freshly-made pita & made-to-order …
After an unprecedented one whole week of Halloween parties it’s time to calm down and get civilised people! With …
When I’m not downing buckets of beef jerky while wrestling a grizzly bear, I like to get in touch with my sensitive …
Download Podcast Launching a new podcast series today! Hear Greg and Chris fussing over 10yen, chat about Halloween in …
I don’t know about the rest of you, but if it weren’t for the 100yen shops around Tokyo, I probably wouldn’t have made …
Anyone who tells you that Halloween isn’t a big deal in Japan (and Tokyo) is seriously lacking in perspective. …
If you live in Japan and have not yet experienced the phenomenon of karaoke, what is wrong with you? Oh, I get it. …
Finding a job in Tokyo was rough being fresh off the boat and not knowing a lot of Japanese. I was that foreigner at …
If you’re one of the brave souls who has decided to eschew a diet of dead animal or perhaps if you’re even …
This is not Texas or landlocked Indiana. Here in Tokyo, sushi is abundant. There may be as many sushi bars as vending …
\As an advocate of all things ice cream and gyoza, it would be a disservice for me to not tell people about Namco Namja …
Beyond dull bronzes of early statesmen, public art in Tokyo is a relatively new phenomenon. Only in about the last 25 …
When I was about 16, I wanted to play guitar in a hardcore band. After explaining this new found dream to my loving and …
The concept of Genka Bar is both simple and brilliant – after you pay 1,500yen to enter, all food and drink from …
If there is one thing I can say I have learned to love while living in Japan, it’s walking. I used to hate walking. If …
This weekend has a public holiday tacked on to the other side, so you’re gainfully employed then you’re …
Continuing on my culture hopping articles, I wanted to bring attention to a museum that I don’t think a lot of people …
Being that this is Tokyo, there is an excess number of unique places to eat ramen. Each shop can have it’s own style …
It finally, very suddenly feels like Autumn. Not long now until the time of ‘changing of the leaves’, …
How much would you pay to see a panda eat bamboo behind a thick layer of plexiglass? 50,000yen? 100,000yen? Try 600yen. …
The Tokyo National Museum is Japan’s largest and oldest museum, housing over 133,000 pieces of art and archeological …
Although the weather starts to get a bit wild and woolly about now, it’s still plenty warm enough to enjoy the …
Do you know what I always seem to have in my pocket? 400yen. I’ll be walking home from class; starving and trying to …
This weekend is one of those stretchy ones as respect for the wrinkled (is that disrespectful?) day will be celebrated …