Snoopy Museum Tokyo is an exciting addition to the museums of Tokyo. The Peanuts comic strip characters are popular in Japan but are collectively eclipsed by Snoopy, the dog, to...[ Click to read more ]
When thinking of Japanese high arts such as ukiyo-e, haiku, and bonsai, Kabuki is probably one of the first things that come to mind. Kabuki, the classical Japanese dance theatre...[ Click to read more ]
As you may have already noticed, summers in Tokyo can be pretty sweltering. The heat brings with it many questions, such as how to deal with hot and sticky public...[ Click to read more ]
Now that the rainy season or “tsuyu” is nearly behind us, we can finally look forward to Summer. Perhaps, looking forward isn’t the most accurate expression as Tokyo Summers tend...[ Click to read more ]
It seems hard to believe, but there was once a time when finding a good cup of coffee in Tokyo was a challenge or at the very least required a...[ Click to read more ]
One of the things people notice about Japan is that cartoon characters here are very popular. From Hello Kitty to Pikachu to the local mascots that are just about everywhere,...[ Click to read more ]
For a long time, the place to go for food from Latin America was a shop in Gotanda called Mundo Latino. That shop has sadly closed but luckily Kyodai Market...[ Click to read more ]
Japanese food is celebrated worldwide as one of the premier global cuisines. You could even consider yourself lucky to live in such a country where the food quality is held...[ Click to read more ]
Many of Japan’s most famous shrines and temples are in the old capital of Kyoto. While not as historic as the city it replaced as the nation’s political, social, and...[ Click to read more ]
After a while, you’ll notice the sheer amount of bookstores and reading materials there seem to be in Japan. While print media has been declining in the West, with the...[ Click to read more ]