Ikebukuro
Newly added “Angel Hour” service gets you a discount on drinks such as L.C.L. and the Ayanam Rei Soda cocktail.
With so many clean free-to-use toilets in Japan, we had to find out why you would pay to use one.
While the Shibuya celebration is as much about getting drunk with friends as it is anything else, in Ikebukuro it’s the costumes that take center stage.
Experience a new breed of terror this autumn, but don’t tap on the glass! It’ll scare the fish.
This Ikebukuro izakaya just gave us an 8,000-yen discount, and they’ll happily do the same for you.
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If you dare to litter in Tokyo, you’d better watch out, because there’s a team of fearsome samurai warriors ready to admonish you.
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