Queen in the Park: The Queen Experience
Queen were huge in Japan and Bohemian Rhapsody is a karaoke classic. Queen in the Park was a fun reimagining of classic songs at Ginza Sony Park.
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Otaru Cafe x Hello Kitty: Let’s drink coffee with Kitty-chan!
Conveniently located at Otaru’s tourist area is Otaru Cafe x Hello Kitty. A proper Hello Kitty café with cuteness, latte art and Kitty herself!
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2D Cafe in Shin-Ōkubo, Tokyo: Step Inside a Cartoon!
The 2D Cafe near Tokyo’s Korea Town has been carefully designed to appear as 2D. It doesn’t need a website, just an Instagram account. Leave the 3D world behind!
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Shibuya’s Green Frog Train (青ガエル) – A Farewell
You were more than just a green Tokyu 5000 museum train opposite Hachikō. A piece of Tokyo’s past left Shibuya after 14 years.
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Staying at an Internet Cafe in Japan
What you need to know about staying at an Internet cafe (net cafe) in Japan and why these places are still popular today in a public Wi-Fi age.
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Japan Film Festival Hamburg 2021 starts!
The Japan Filmfestival Hamburg (JFFH) is once again an online-only festival. If you are in for surprises, this is likely the festival of choice for Japanese movie lovers.
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Lohas Raw Food in Sapporo: How would you like not to age?
Walking around in Sapporo’s central ward, I noticed an interesting sign outside a small restaurant. It was the Lohas Raw Food restaurant offering their Anti-aging set. So how would you like not to age?
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Top 8 films you shouldn’t miss at Nippon Connection 2021
Nippon Connection 2021, the biggest film festival for the Japanese film starts this Tuesday and is once again an online event.
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The Edo-Tokyo Museum: The 400-Year History of Tokyo
The Edo-Tokyo Museum (江戸東京博物館) is a museum about the 400-year history of the city of Edo-Tokyo since Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu declared Edo his capital of united Japan.
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Flight Movies (4): The Fate of Bento Wars: A Hero Rabbit Far From Home
Intercontinental flights equals movie time! Flight movies, my guilty pleasure of watching movies that I missed or otherwise wouldn’t watch on the tiny screen of the airplane entertainment system.
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Hangul Kongbubang – Free Korean Language Class in Seoul
I still had a couple of weeks until the start of the semester at the Yonsei KLI and I already played through Bae-Yong Joon Korean language learning Nintendo DS game. That’s when I found out about Hangul Kongbubang, a free Korean class in Seoul taught by volunteers.
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