Tokyo (Page 79)
New pricing system makes some taxi rides over 40 percent less expensive than they used to be.
If you’re out enjoying the fantasies and frills, don’t forget that they come at a very real price.
The all-expenses paid trip will take foreign visitors to sites in Tokyo and Gifu Prefecture that feature in the hit animated film.
For decades, locals have said a woman’s ghost appears in the park at night, and our visit ended with frightening female fury.
While you’re progressing towards your destination, your smartphone could be progressing towards a full charge.
We’re used to eating Japanese rice cakes at New Year’s but this is our first time trying one on a hamburger.
The underground train operator has commissioned several real-time translation megaphones to facilitate communication with foreign customers.
Despite the Tokyo chill, things are heating up at one of the city’s most popular comic conventions.
Uses bear meat sourced from Kyoto and Aomori, said to have more refined taste than foreign varieties.
Take a look at Tokyo’s underground tunnels from the driver’s seat of a train in this awesome new music video.
Gojyo Taxi is hoping that the ability to evolve pig-tailed magic girls in their cars will boost usage, and “hope” is a wonderful thing.
Because nothing says “high-class” more than the company of cats.
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