Oktoberfest in Japan
The Munich Oktoberfest is the biggest beer festival in the world and over 200 years old. I’ve never been there but many foreigners travel to Germany each year just to get drunk.
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Loving Hut in Tokyo
Loving Hut is a fast growing vegan food restaurant chain founded by “Supreme Master” Ching Hai. Unlike most restaurant chains,
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Hello Kitty’s Kawaii Paradise at Odaiba, Tokyo
In my post about the Hello Kitty cafe in Seoul I wrote that in Hello Kitty’s home country, there is
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Lightopia Illumination Festival in Tokyo
Unlike most of the other illumination festivals, Lightopia has a very limited run, starting on the 22nd and finishing on
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Shinjuku Southern Lights 2011-12
This illumination festival is a must see if you happen to run a blog that has both “tokyo” and “penguin”
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Yurakucho Winter Illumination 2011-12
Time for new Christmas illumination, this time around Yurakucho Station in Tokyo. This is one of the smaller ones, advertised
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Tokyo Illumination: Ebisu – Baccarat Eternal Lights
The Baccarat Eternal Lights is an annual illumination festival at the Yebisu Garden Place. The Garden Place can be reached
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TEPCO Electric Energy Museum
Energy companies along with financial institutes and insure companies have probably a worse public image. TEPCO is no exception –
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Night walk in Nakano and Don Quijote at 2am
Don Quijote is infamous for being a crammed shop that sells almost anything. Need a new bike, 2kg rice, sex
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Giant Gundam Statue is returning to Tokyo
Gundam is a cultural phenomenon in Japan and sells figures, video games and manga. To commemorate the 30th anniversary of
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When Construction Workers Wake Up
It’s perfectly safe to take a nice stroll at 3 in the morning in Tokyo – for the most part
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