Category: GO SEE

Heading to a Japanese onsen (hot spring) is one of the best trips you can do in Japan during the winter. But the exclusive onsen resorts don't come cheap and they need to keep innovating to ...

Get a taste of Chinese food in the appropriate Communist garb now in this Cultural Revolution-themed restaurant, which is apparently now open in Ikebukuro. Ikebukuro is one of the most ...

Thank God for hipsters. When all else fails and the media is amok with already notorious reports (supported by dubious stats) that Japanese people apparently no longer have sex, you can always at ...

On August 19th, Sega, one of Japan's biggest gaming companies, and BBC Earth celebrated the grand opening of Orbi Yokohama. Located inside Mark Is Minatomirai, a shopping complex in Yokohama, Orbi ...

It seems like Tokyo Tower has yet to concede defeat to the Tokyo Skytree, holding tightly to its self-acclaimed title of Best City Landmark. Whereas the newer east Tokyo attraction seems to prefer ...

J-World Tokyo, the world's first theme park dedicated to Shonen Jump manga, has opened in Ikebukuro, north Tokyo. Visitors can find the new amusement center in the Sunshine City World Import ...

Thunderbirds, the classic Sixties puppets TV show created by the late Gerry Anderson, is still quite popular in Japan. We reported last year, for example, on the Thunderbirds-themed restaurant in ...

Last weekend I jumped on the Fukutoshin Line and headed down to Shibuya to check out Keitai Mizu ("mobile water"). From what I had read, the event at Jingu-dori Park was set to be a mobile ...

We blogged last autumn about the opening of the Art Aquarium in Tokyo in 2012. After the exhibition pulled in a whopping 200,000 visitors, it's not surprisingly coming back to the Nihonbashi ...

We all love cherry blossoms. It’s around this time of the year when “Did you go to hanami? (cherry blossom viewing)” becomes another way of asking people how they are doing recently. Hanami ...

As we’ve mentioned previously on JapanTrends, the Tokyu Toyoko line has recently merged with the underground Fukutoshin subway line at Shibuya Station. The merge has made the commute from outside ...

To know Kyary Pamyu Pamyu is to love Kyary Pamyu Pamyu. At the young age of 20, she has dominated Japanese music charts and global YouTube viewing lists. If you’re in Tokyo, it’s pretty much ...

A Lego hotel is currently being constructed in Carlsbad, California but fans in Japan will only have to wait until 2016 before they get their own chance to stay in a Lego-themed deluxe suite. The ...

Play hunt the lost ship in Osaka this weekend. At the Creative Center Osaka (the former Namura Shipyard) there will be a "Vanished Ship Plan" event on January 27th. Participants will be divided ...

Sometimes it seems there is a cafe for every theme in the pulsating, organic mass that is the city of Tokyo. From cat cafes to robot ones in Kabukicho, Gundam eateries, maid cafes and more... every ...