Riding the waves and eating the sweets in Asagaya.

When you spot a restaurant on a train platform in Japan, the odds are extremely high that it’s going to be a noodle joint, and specifically a soba/udon one. Since they both use the same sort of broth, ...

This year, Ghibli specialty shop chain Donguri Kyowakoku is giving fans a giant hug in the form of two new sock ranges, with the first being a collection of embroidered socks, honouring four of the ...

The town of Yugawara, in Kanagawa Prefecture, seems like it should be a very tranquil place. A seaside hot spring town, with baths and inns dotting the cityscape as it stretches up into the mountains ...

Foxes rarely venture this close to the Tokyo city center…unless kitsune spirits are here all the time.

Tokyo-based creative collective Naked, Inc., known for combining cinematic storytelling with cutting-edge technology, embraces this dichotomy wholeheartedly, having run several digital art exhibitions ...

While the cake can be eaten as is, because the flavour is simple, you can customise it to your liking. Natsuki chopped up the other half and added chocolate sauce, nuts and mint to make a decadent ...

Opening on the same day, and right next door to the Gundam Base Minneapolis, will be a new Bandai Namco Cross Store, carrying a wide variety of otaku-oriented items from the many, many franchises the ...

Burger stand near Tokyo’s most famous temple has local partners with more than 100 years of history helping the Square Burger stick out from the crowd.

Printing Museum hosts mini exhibition for crossover of virtual idol and ukiyo-e art.

Fall is, by far, the best time of year to go hiking in Japan. Free from worries about the snows of winter, the hay fever-triggering pollen of spring, or the debilitating heat and humidity of summer, a ...