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Sakura season means lots of picnics and hanami. These kids are learning the tradition fast. The weather is a bit overcast today, but they seem to be enjoying their time under the sakura tree eating their snacks. Do you normally go [...]
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Sakuragaoka-cho is located close to Shibuya Station just on the other side of Route 246. I have lived and worked here for a number of years, and it feels like a second home, or maybe it is my first one now. Although, I now live in [...]
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Mothers Day is coming up soon and the convenience stores are hoping people will order gifts through them for the occasion. I didn’t see anything in store to buy, but Lawson had their catalog out to encourage people to order. [...]
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I took a walk around Kabukicho, Shinjuku in the evening. Shinjuku Station is always packed with people coming and going, and the kabukicho area picks up a lot of traffic from people going to restaurants, clubs, love hotels and more.
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I visited this donut cafe, Marui-to that had opened a while ago in Sakuragaoka-cho, Shibuya. They make the donuts on the premises and have many different variations to try. The donuts are small so you can select a few ^^. Are you a [...]
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There are so many great foods in Japan to choose from. At close proximity you can find French, Italian, Spanish, US, Chinese, Indian and many more. Here is a quick selection of some eats I had yesterday. The scribble notes here refer [...]
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The Yamanote Line auto doors are due to start operation soon. I wrote a few weeks ago about the electronic doors being installed at Ebisu and Meguro. This is an update showing the door panels now in place at Ebisu station. Do you have [...]
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1,000 Yen lunches used to be the benchmark for office workers to seek out in order to budget for their daily meal. With the economic downturn and deflation, the 500 Yen lunch has now started to become popular. There was a program on TV [...]
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I really liked to read about different cultural days in Japanese. I have recently ordered books on the HinaMatsuri. I am looking forward to its arrival. I am also going to get this book on Tanabata even though it is a few months away. [...]
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Lots of goodies for todays conbini monday. I almost forgot about it, since it is a holiday in Japan today. Lucky the convenience stores are all open no matter that everyone else gets the day off. I went to Natural Lawson for a number [...]
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Eggs’nThings Japan has opened its first store in Harajuku and is already proving popular. The brand is well known with Japanese that have traveled to Hawaii and tasted the local Eggs’nThings pancakes and omlettes in [...]
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There was a fire drill at some office buildings in Shinagawa today. As I was passing, I noticed this fire tent, or fire house, that had been set up. The sign on the tent says that it is a “smoke experiencing house”. No [...]
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The snacks keep coming this week, but as we get towards the warmer weather there is a definite ‘sakura in pink’ theme starting to develop. Have you noticed packaging in the stores start to change color for the different seasons?
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The Bonden Festival is held in various parts of Akita-ken. I attended this one in Yokote City. A Bonden represents a mythical marker point for the gods to descend to our world. The Bonden is carried through the streets and holds with [...]
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On my trip to Akita-ken I captured this guy sitting in the middle of the road with the matsuri going on around him, downing a hot bowl of instant ramen. What is your favorite ramen flavor?
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The Yamanote Line is going to have automatic gates installed on all its platforms over the next few years in an attempt to prevent passengers falling on the rails and delaying services. The installation of the gates will be done in [...]
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Some breads and vitamins to mix up the food at this weeks conbini. Which do you prefer, the healthy or the sweet?
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The Yamate Tunnel is due to open at the end of March 2010, helping to provide a second circular road for highway traffic in Tokyo. This section of the road includes a very interesting tunnel and ramp known as Ohashi Junction. Today was [...]
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White Day Japan is coming up on March 14th – this is a day that was first celebrated in 1978! It was introduced by the National Confectionary Association in Japan to try and get men to buy something for the women who gave them [...]
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I really like the Anpanman brand! Who would have thought it could have taken off with such intense popularity? For those who dont know, Anpanman is a series of stories written by Takashi Yanase since 1968 with the lead character, also [...]
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Japan has some great trains. Living in Tokyo and traveling on the Yamanote Line everyday it is easy to forgot how good they are. When on the train today I heard some people from out of town talking about how beautiful the trains in [...]
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Just got tweeted about these great images that LifeYouTv has created with photoshop and uploaded to flickr. Looks like the four of us are out of a scene from Heroes or maybe it is LOST ? Maybe we should make a movie. LOL. LifeYouTv has [...]
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Last year I took a trip to Sendai and visited Matsushima which is said to be one of Japan’s three great views along with Miyajima and Amanohashidate. I found more photos of my trip and resized some others to provide this gallery of [...]
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Shibuya Faces Part II from eleven23 on Vimeo. Short film shot in Shibuya on November 5th 2009 with the Canon 7D. Music : Saint Etienne – The Way We Live Now Some wonderful videos of Tokyo, in particular the Shibuya, Roppongi and [...]
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I had to go to the Tokyo Station Rilakkuma Store today and ended up buying these custard pudding desserts. Very tasty Rilakkuma treats. Which one would you eat first?
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This one is for sakura mochi fans! It is a wonderful addition to the bag or mobile phone. I can almost smell the sakura mochi already!! For those who are unusure about what kind of smell I am talking about – sakura mochi are [...]
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