Food Ticket Machines
For lack of a better word, I will call them food ticket machines. Basically, it's a machine that takes your order and allows you to pay then gives you a ticket for the meal you ordered. You then…
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2020 Olympics: New Logo For Tokyo Olympics Revealed
News On Monday, a new logo for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo was revealed, seven months after the first design was scrapped due to plagiarism concerns. The new logo, is a "harmonized cheq…
Japan's First Specialist Robot Store! The Original Akihabara Robot Shop "Tsukumo Robot Kingdom"
"Tsukumo Robot Kingdom" is Japan's first specialist robot store. As a robot specialist, they've obviously got robots, and there are also other attractions such…
Tokyo Tourist Information Centers / Official Tokyo Travel Guide GO TOKYO
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government operates the Tokyo Tourist Information Center at three locations in the metropolitan area to provide tourist information to visitors to Tokyo from other areas of Jap…
Abe Administration Pushes for 40 Million Yearly Tourists by 2020 | News & Views
As if there weren't enough confused tourists slowing your roll through the busy subway ticket gates, get ready to deal with twice as many over the next four years. As we reported earlier this ye…
Nasu highland
Nasu highland spreads at the farthest north of Tochigi Prefecture. There is Mount Nasu, which is a group of complex volcano and has several peaks, around the prefecture's border with Fukushima P…
Akihabara Junk: Crunching Elmo, Humping Dog
TOKYO - A few years ago, you'd see the Humping Dog all over Akihabara. It's a USB toy: Plug it into an open slot and the little motorized dog draws power from the PC and starts humping…
Japan Farmers Markets
These blooms are now gone, but were too pretty not to share. The young nashi (pears) are forming under the green leaves that fill out more and more every day. What's interesting about this orcha…
Robot caregivers to help elderly
By Koki Kataoka / Yomiuri Shimbun Photographer"Please move your body along with me and say 'banzai.' Ready?" A 40-centimeter-tall robot led the activ…
Tokyo Islands Fair / Official Tokyo Travel Guide GO TOKYO
Tokyo Islands Cafe Fair presents a selection of delicacies and specialties from the Izu and Ogasawara islands. The ashitaba plant, kusaya dried fermented fish, shiokara salted fermented viscera, came…