Harajuku is a neighborhood between Shinjuku and Shibuya, home to Tokyo’s most important Shinto shrine, its largest park, and a focal point for Tokyo’s youth culture and fashion.
During the 1964 Olympics, Harajuku Station was the main transportation hub for the Olympic Village. After the Olympics,...
What's in style today?
A quick look at what Tokyo's most fashionable are wearing now.
In Shibuya, trends come and go faster than a bullet train. Let's meet some of Tokyo's Beautiful Peopl outside Shibuya 109 and see what they're wearing now.
Yokohama’s La Cittadella shopping mall is an interesting mix of dining and retail space patterned on an Italian hilltown. What makes it interesting is the architecture. Rather than being a cartoonish replica, La Cittadella uses the hilltown model as a way of moving people through its space. Where...
More than living up to its name, this 296 meter building is Japan’s tallest after Tokyo Tower, hosting offices, a hotel, restaurants and shopping spaces. One of the world’s fastest elevators will rush you to the 69th floor in just forty seconds, where you’ll enjoy spectacular views from the Sky Gar...
The name Odaiba means fort, revealing the origins of what has become one of Tokyo’s most thriving tourist destinations. In 1853, shortly after Commodore Matthew Perry’s alarming expedition to Japan, the Tokugawa Shogunate constructed a series of island batteries to guard the entrance to Tokyo Bay. I...
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Akihabara
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Kaiyodo Hobby Lobby
Akihabara, world famous as one of the most concentrated shopping areas in the world for electronics goods of every possible type and description, has taken on a second role in the last 15 years as the center of Japan’s increasingly influential otaku, or geek culture. For both of these reasons, it ca...
Not just another tourist trap
Entering Senso-ji, travelers will pass through Nakamise-dori, the avenue of small shops stretching between Kaminarimon and the temple grounds. Many visitors may assume these shops are just peddling trash aimed at the tourist market, and indeed some guidebooks make refe...
The name Odaiba means fort, revealing the origins of what has become one of Tokyo’s most thriving tourist destinations. In 1853, shortly after Commodore Matthew Perry’s alarming expedition to Japan, the Tokugawa Shogunate constructed a series of island batteries to guard the entrance to Tokyo Bay. I...
Shibuya is the name of one of Japan’s wards, and as such includes Harajuku, Ebisu and a number of other neighborhoods. In common speech, however, Shibuya usually refers to the shopping and entertainment district just south of Harajuku, centered on Shibuya Station, one of Tokyo’s busiest.
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Yodobashi Camera, Akiba
Akihabara
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One Coin Wonderland
Think Japan has to be expensive? Think again.
Need a professional wrestler’s mask? How about a new set of ping-pong paddles or a garden trowel? Rachel and Josh have you covered. One store, one coin, one of the best places to save money in Japan. The 100 Yen Shop!
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