Overseas otaku says he learned some things while traveling in Japan, but many say they shouldn’t have been surprises.
Melonpan (@MeidocafeR on Twitter) is easily Switzerland’s, and quite possibly the…

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 6 years, 9 months ago | 0 comments

But what do people in Japan think of the top YouTuber possibly moving to their country?
One of the biggest names in the YouTube community is a Swedish YouTuber called PewDiePie.
And while his followe…

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Contrary to popular belief, this design wasn’t made for coats, hats, or doorstoppers.
You may have seen these types of hooks outside of Japan, but here they’re an ubiquitous part of public toilet lif…

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Previously, you could use a payphone to send email to users of phones with service providers Docomo, au, or SoftBank.
Dial the phone number of the person you want to send the email to3.
After you hea…

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Are Japanese people still scarfing down traditional Japanese foods each morning, or have they switched to a simpler, more Western style of breakfast?
Man in his 20s,Tokyo– fried pork with ginger– mis…

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One of my favorite Japanese phrases is shikata ga nai.
That’s why today I’m counting down my top five “shikata ga nai” situations in life in Japan.
I’ve never been more ashamed of trying to outsmart …

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Before you head to Mori Building Digital Art Museum: EPSON teamLab Borderless, there are a few things you’ll need to know.
Given that this is unlike any other experience in Japan, the Mori Building D…

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Does anime-style running actually make you faster? I asked a gold medalist to help me tackle this trope.

Thanks to The Outer Worlds from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division for sponsoring tod…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 6 years, 9 months ago | 0 comments

In a forest somewhere in the Kanto Region, there was a Pichu who was all alone. When this Pichu was still just a young child, it met someone, but then they parted ways. This happened a short while be…

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Tokyo worker is a channel that posts videos of office buildings in a timelapse form and it is quite scary. As you can see a lot of lights are still on even past 10pm. It shows that the overwork condi…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 6 years, 9 months ago | 0 comments