Spacious eight-person room makes a perfect base for shinobi missions in Tokyo, but passing up sushi counter room is a hard choice.
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Japanese government recommends spending two weeks in Hawaii on your way to Micronesia in order to comply with new rule.
Stroll the streets of Electric Town at a time when computers and video games were just beginning to appear on the scene.
People are falling in love with the wide-eyed visitor from abroad who discovers Kabukicho isn’t really like it is in video games.
Japan Tourism Agency uses ninja, sumo and geisha to demonstrate what to do and what not to do in Japan.
“Such a miracle can only occur in North Korea” and other popular phrases from an authentic DPRK phrasebook.
The “Harlem of Japan” may be losing the very thing that made it so popular in the first place.
Management promises “comfortable hospitality for both domestic and international travelers.”
Japan’s beautiful cherry blossoms are on their way, but not at the same time as usual, according to predicted dates and map.
People in Japan are going crazy for this sweets hotel, which serves up Koala’s March pancakes unavailable anywhere else in the world.
Our latest get-rich-quick scheme takes us to a Shinto shrine in Kamakura with an 835-year history.
Suntory’s for-foreigners video has plenty of great info, and we’ve got a few things to add.
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