In the heart of Shibuya you will find the iconic 109 Building. For many 109 is the temple of Japanese teenage culture where each floor features small fashion oriented retails stores. Made famous in the 2000s for its heavy Kogal (kogyaru) subculture where Japanese schoolgirls would wear outfits based […]
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Initially built as a flea market in the early postwar years, Harmonica Yokocho is a collection of alleys on the north side of Kichijoji Station. Best known nowadays for its many small but excellent restaurants, which began popping up in the late '90s, you also find in Harmonica Yokocho […]
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Founded in 1822 by Kanjiro, the ninth head of the Tamura family, the Tamura Shuzoujou is one Japan’s most respected sake breweries. They have been making fine sake for more than a century. Today’s video will give you all the chance to have a tour of the Tamura Shuzoujou sake brewery […]
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Bridging Tokyo Bay, Koto and the man-made island Wakasu, the Tokyo Gate Bridge was first opened in February 2012. Also called the “Dinosaur Bridge” due to its unusual shape, the Tokyo Gate Bridge is a 2.6km long truss bridge which allow, around 32,000 vehicles daily to cross one part of Tokyo to another [...]
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We’ve covered Shibuya many times in the past. We’ve made a short walking tour video before of the area, but we have to admit that we are fascinated by the place and we could not resist shooting yet another walking video of Shibuya, this time in winter! We hope you will enjoy this new […]
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oday’s video will be all about the Tokyo driving experience where we will drive from Toyosu, near Odaiba up to Ueno while driving across the famous Rainbow bridge, through Ginza and up to our final destination of Iriya (just after Ueno) which also marks the end of this section of the Shuto Expressway.
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he pinnacle of Japanese teen culture, Harajuku and more precisely Takeshita Street, or in Japanese Takeshita Dori, is a 500m long street featuring many trendy shops, used clothes stores, fashion boutiques as well as many Japanese crepe stands and fast food restaurants. Extremely crowded all day long, Takeshita Street is unique to Tokyo and really […]
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ocated a little bit north of Tokyo near the Tokyo Bunkyo Civic Center and Tokyo Dome, Rikugien belongs to a group of nine parks in Tokyo managed by the Tokyo Metropolitan Park Association. Thanks to a staff dedicated to maintaining this park, Rikugien is among of the most beautiful parks you can find in Tokyo. […]
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ere you are, another video coming straight from our new “Daily Life” project where we will upload videos of our daily life and commute in Japan. Today’s video will be a quick ride I made from Shibuya Station to Omotesando Station on the Ginza line on my way to meet some friends. Not much to […]
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ere you are, the second part of our “virtual tour” of Tokyo’s famous Imperial Palace. Known in Japanese as Kōkyo Higashi Gyoen (皇居東御苑), the Imperial Palace’s east gardens are part of the inner palace, open to the public all year long. Here you will find the remains of the former Edo Castle in the form […]
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ach year, the Tokyo branch of Yasaka Jinja from Kyoto, located in Hino-Machi, organizes a little matsuri where some of Tokyo’s most famous Iaido schools offer a very rare chance for local people to enjoy the beauty of this martial art. Among these famous schools, one, the Toudou-Renmei School, dominated the whole matsuri with impressive […]
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oday’s video marks the beginning of a new series of content about Japan where we will bring you along with us when we are walking around Tokyo and other areas. Unlike other videos we used to upload in the past, and that we will continue to upload in the future, these new “Everyday slice of […]
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