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Great weather today and the crowds were out in Shibuya. As well as the many couples, tourists and others, the Hot Pepper mascot was out and about encouraging people to take a copy of the free restaurant guide. There are many popular [...]
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To help make the site better for all visitors, I have published below some visitor traffic numbers for the site shibuya246.com. Currently, the site is averaging between 500 – 1,000 visitors per day with about 150 repeat visitors [...]
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Following from the success of Capcom’s video game 戦国BASARA, Battle Heroes, (selling over 1,400,000 units) a number of goods and services related to Kumamoto castle, (熊本城), Himeji castle (姫路城) and Hamamatsu castle (浜松城) have [...]
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Found this classic Mercedes car on the street yesterday. I asked the owner if he would let me take a picture. He was kind enough to say yes, but I didn’t feel I could ask him to drive down the street away from the lamp post.
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While out the other day at Ikspiari, Maihama, next to DisneyLand, I found a store that specialized in model railway parts, bus models and generally all types of accessories connected with JR Railways. Amongst the items I particularly [...]
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There is always something interesting going on in Shibuya. Today, I bumped into Danny Choo from http://dannychoo.com who was in Shibuya to do some filming. Many of you will know Danny from his many great videos on YouTube of the [...]
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As you can see by these photos, there is a big advertising campaign at Shibuya station for the service called GREE. It is a Japanese based social networking site that allows online users to share information, games and to look after [...]
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You might know Rilakkuma, but you have probably never seen him playing like this? The monkey here was born at the zoo. The mother monkey would protect the child from danger, but didn’t take care of teaching it or generally taking [...]
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San-x company have brought out a range of products for the golf. If you are a Rilakkuma fan who plays golf then these goodies will surely be on your shopping list. The San-x Rilakkuma Golf store site has many other items also. Also, a [...]
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Today marks the first day, under a revised law, that allows stores other than drugstores or pharmacies to begin selling certain types of medicines / drugs. The Yomiuri newspaper had this to comment about today’s commencement of [...]
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What a long week in between Conbini Monday’s. There are some interesting topics to look at in the convenience store arena at the moment. The law for selling drugs / medicines is set to change on June 1st, which will allow [...]