Tag: Shibuya

Google Play Music has created a cool promo event featuring a giant outdoor billboard that lets you listen to 35 million tracks. Currently installed in the square by Parco in Shibuya until October ...

Spanish street artist Pejac has just finished an Asian tour, taking in Hong Kong and Seoul. His last stop was Tokyo, where he wreaked some creative anarchy on the streets. He exploited local ...

We recently featured a beautiful video featuring miniatures of traditional Japanese architecture and gardens. Well, here's the modern-day version! This is a contemporary Tokyo landmark in ...

Everything you ever wanted to know and see about Funassyi in one place? Then head to the Parco Museum at Shibuya Parco Part 1 from April 24th for "Funassyi Fantasy World", the first exhibition by the ...

Taco Bell is returning to Japan. Its first new branch will open in Shibuya in the Dogenzaka area on April 21st. Of course, Taco Bell has been a mainstay of U.S. military bases in Japan for ...

Get ready for Shibuya Beer. We already have Tokyo Black, made by the same people as Yona Yona, as well as Tokyo Ale. So why not a craft beer for one of Tokyo's most vibrant ...

On April 4th, Mori no Tosho Shitsu (Mori's Library) in Shibuya will be transformed into a club for a silent disco event. Remember Mori no Tosho Shitsu? It was the crowdfunded "book and beer" ...

A proposal to give recognition same-sex couple has been submitted to Shibuya City, one of the wards in central Tokyo. A bylaw proposal will be submitted to the ward congress in March which would ...

Nike is opening a women-only sports space in Shibuya for the spring. Opening March 3rd at a location nine minutes' walk from Shibuya Station, Nike Women's Studio features a basement training ...

There is Christmas, and then there is Christmas in Japan. Christmas in Japan is actually really all about Christmas Eve. And forget churches and family time. It's more of a date night than ...

Gotta catch 'em all. Or should that be "eat and drink 'em all"? Shibuya Parco will open the Pokémon Cafe (Pokémon cafe Ω Ruby & α Sapphire) next month. Opening January 9th, the pop-up cafe ...

If you passed through Shibuya yesterday evening or night you cannot have failed to notice that it was Halloween. A bustling and manifold place at any time of the year, on October 31st it burst into ...

Funassyi just can't be stopped. The pear (nashi) character that famously started off as an unofficial yuru-kyara mascot for Funabashi in Chiba Prefecture has become so popular that he now has his own ...

Shibuya is like a hydra. Just when you think you have it sussed, along comes yet another shopping arcade or mall to confuse you. Earlier this year Tokyu opened the Shibuya Chikamichi Lounge ...

UNIQLO's spin-off casual wear brand GU has opened a major new branch at Parco Part 3 in Shibuya. In fitting with its name GU -- pronounced "gee you", a play on the word jiyu in Japan meaning ...