Author - Shibuya246

Marketing

Gundam Wedding

The Gundam project at Odaiba is now set for a wedding. The Wedding Planning company, T&G (Take & Give) have a special wedding ceremony...

Trains

Shinkansen Hotels

Summer time means holidays and with that comes Pokemon Shinkansens, Pokemon Yamanote Trains and plenty of rail travel for families. DIME Magazine...

Buildings

Construction Noise

Construction noise is always a problem if you live close by to a big hole in the ground that is slowly having pieces of steel welded together to form...

Culture

Brutus Magazine

I have introduced some articles from Brutus Magazine before, but wanted to take a special look at this the current edition out. The edition selling...

Drinks

Pocari Sweat

Most people know the Pocari Sweat drink from Otsuka Drink Co. One of the original sports drinks in Japan, it is still hugely popular today. You can...

Living

Police Cars

The police cars in Japan have a great look about them. The black and white color shines in the sun and most cars always appear to be well cleaned...

Photo-Post

Yokohama by Day

Yokohama is an amazing place with a mixture of foreign blended history from the French and English settlements over 150 years ago that shaped the...

Travel

Railroad tracks

I took a trip to Yokohama yesterday. There are many places being redeveloped and the old railroad tracks and bridges and storage warehouses have been...

Tech

WiMAX

UQ WiMAX is a relatively new service that is offering high speed wireless broadband to areas around Japan. Currently the service is limited to major...

Video-Post

Tokyo Bike Rental

The camera is a bit bumpy as it sits atop the bicycle ride from Daikanyama to Shibuya in this video from TokyoRentaBike, but the scenery is enjoyable...

Figures

Tokyo Figure Show

The Tokyo Figure Show was on last week. I went down to Harajuku and take a look at the collection of figures on display by Danny Choo and GoodSmile...

Food

Umeshu

This is a guest post by Nicolas Soergel, the Managing Director of Chinriu Honten Limited, a company that has been producing and retailing traditional...

Living

Kidney Stone 3

I am glad to say this is the last part in the Kidney Stone series. Having been back to the hospital for more tests on Monday including an IVP, where...

Tech

Earthquake News

There have a been some large earthquakes in Japan recently to go with the hundreds of years of earthquake activity Japan has experienced. In 1923...

Buildings

Shinagawa InterCity

Shinagawa is one of the major stations on the Yamanote-sen. It also has platforms for the Shinkansen, Narita Express、Tokaido-honsen, Shonan-Liner and...

Living

Japan Earthquake

Latest click for Japan Earthquake March 2011 (photos in park) Latest click for Shibuya after the earthquake (life getting back to normal) Just had a...

shopping

Okaimono Japan

I met with the team from Okaimono Japan the other day at the Advance Partners office (my company in Japan) in Shibuya. Okaimono Japan are part of the...

character goods

Rilakkuma Odaiba

Looks like Gundam is not the only character that is making it big in Odaiba. Here are some great Rilakkuma goods from Aqua City, Odaiba. I have been...

Video-Post

Miniature City

Some great scenery here captured by mockmoon of central Tokyo that is both scaled down to miniature size using tilt shift camera techniques and then...

Drinks • Trains

JR Train Tea Found!

A while ago I wrote about the great tea drink product in the shape of the Yamanote Line. A lot of people asked me where they could buy it. Well, here...