Tokyo's Ota Ward on Friday gave permission to an online travel service provider to start renting out private homes on the popular Airbnb model. It became the first municipality to allow home sharing …

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This fireworks festival is held in Asakusa, only a couple of kilometres from Akihabara. If you don't mind huge crowd, this is a must-see event!

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On the fifth floor of an otherwise unassuming electronics shop on a side street in Akihabara hides a store dedicated exclusively to robots. You can get everything from fully built (and very expensive…

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A large photo collection from Akihabara

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After Cherry blossom season is over, we have the season for Roses! There is a annual Rose festival in Fukuyama city in Hiroshima prefecture.

The rose season comes to Fukuyama in May. Appro…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 8 years, 10 months ago | 1 comment

Living in Japan is an everyday challenge for me.

As a 180 cm tall girl I probably have average size in my home country Germany, but in Japan I am considered as chubby, very tall and “medatsu” – eye…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 8 years, 10 months ago | 2 comments

Remember watching those fleeting bubbles as a child and how sad it was when they popped? Well now you can keep them bottled up thanks to an entirely new kind of hourglass created by Norihiko Teraya…

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Japan is a land of new. When buying a house or renting an apartment, proximity to train stations is a big factor in price, but also important is the age of the building. Fashion changes quickly so wa…

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Plastic food models amuse many first time visitors to Japan. Most of them look surprisingly real. Here is your chance to make some by yourself.

Last week I jumped at the chance to visit a place that…

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The epitome of beauty in Tokyo will be found in its gardens. For a small fee (around 3$ USD) you can take a stroll and admire the simplicity and aesthetics of these meticulously crafted works of art.…

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