Playful PlayStation team celebrates local Ryogoku culture and takes a PS5 to Kanda Shrine for a traditional autumn event.
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Our always-early reporter finds a great meal almost without even trying in the downtown Kanda neighborhood.
Akihabara-adjacent Kanda Shrine is always ready to try new things while keeping the old ones too.
Hidden under the tracks near Akihabara is one of our new favorite places to grab sweets on the street.
Special displays, sales, and even book fortunes commemorate Sanseido moving on to its next chapter.
Not far from Akihabara you’ll find Amanoya, but it wouldn’t be there if not for an assassination.
Not far from Akihabara, there’s a soba spot that gave us food to eat and food for thought.
The PS5 is welcomed into the world at a Japanese shrine with a long history of protecting electronics.
Given Tokyo’s reputation as one of the most expensive cities on the planet, you might think that dining out in Japan’s capital requires either a large fistful of yen or the fortitude to put up with a growling stomach after an undersized meal that leaves you only half-full. That’s not always the case, though, and it’s not like budget dining restricts your options to Yoshinoya or 7-Eleven, either.
We recently found a restaurant right in the heart of Tokyo that has filling, delicious lunches that are so cheap, we sort of felt guilty eating there.
Even in a city as packed with people as Tokyo, some places, and times, are more crowded than others. So when and where can you find the largest, densest mass of humanity? Some would say the Yamanote loop line during the morning rush hour. Others would vote for Shibuya’s scramble crosswalk intersection on a Saturday night.
But before you go awarding the crown to either of those two candidates, take a look at the massive crowds that came out for the Kanda Matsuri festival last weekend.
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