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 | 9 years, 3 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 | 9 years, 3 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…

posted by  RamenRyan | 9 years, 3 months ago | 1 comment

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…

posted by  Yubi | 9 years, 3 months ago | 2 comments

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…

posted by  Yubi | 9 years, 3 months ago | 1 comment

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.…

posted by  Yubi | 9 years, 3 months ago | 1 comment

Mothers can be a competitive bunch at the best of times - but where food is concerned, their killer instinct really kicks in. Now, mothers in Japan are taking competitive culinary prowess to new leve…

posted by  Yubi | 9 years, 3 months ago | 0 comments

The second issue of the Akihabara expedition is the Tokyo Radio Department. I found an interesting capsule-toy vending machine, which contains a Z-80 microprocessor in a capsule! The Z-80 is an 8-bit…

posted by  Yubi | 9 years, 3 months ago | 0 comments

GA Gallery is currently showcasing its annual selection of new developments in residential architecture from around the globe. The “GA Houses Project 2014? exhibition at the small but surprisingly ai…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 9 years, 3 months ago | 0 comments

No matter how hard we try, we're never going to totally understand how they do things over in Japan, but what we do know for sure is that we really hope they'll ship this costume overseas. [Via textu…

posted by  Yubi | 9 years, 3 months ago | 0 comments