Haneda Airport, formerly known as Tokyo International Airport is with more than 60 million passengers per year one of the busiest airports in the world. However Haneda mostly handles domestic flights…

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

TOKYO - Being a passenger in a self-driving car is similar to being driven around by a very cautious person, maybe your grandmother. Requiring neither hands on the steering wheel nor a foot on the ga…

posted by  Yubi | 9 years, 3 months ago | 4 comments

This is one of the things any real otaku should buy and wear to work.

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

If you are in Japan, and you or the kids accompanying you are geeky, here is a small show that you must see. The show does not limit itseld to Rudy Goldberg machines. It heals kids to learn problem s…

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

The day for eating grilled eel is July 22nd! Retailers and restaurants are gearing up to boost sales of grilled eel as the mercury rises, toward the traditional Days of the Ox, dates calculated from …

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

As an advocate of all things ice cream and gyoza, it would be a disservice for me to not tell people about Namco Namja Town. It's not just one of Japan's largest indoor amusement parks, it's a shrine…

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

The ocean surrounding Japan is home to unique types of fish as well as a sheer abundance of aqua-life unlike anything in the world. Japan also boasts a large amount of rivers, lakes, and marshes with…

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

Artist Osamu Kokufu once told us there’s nothing more evocative of the future than the car.

His words made a big impression on us and we had planned a Ping Cars road trip with his help. Our destinat…

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

So after exploring how conservative and hardworking the Japanese are, let’s look at another related topic. The (very condensed) logic goes like this:

Fact 1: Japan’s streets are really clean. And th…

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

A consortium of Japanese researchers recently unveiled a project that utilized femtosecond lasers. I had no idea what that meant, but it sounded cool, so I read on. The project, dubbed “Fairy Light…

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