Lose Your Way at the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, Tokyo
A quick guide to visiting one of Tokyo's most popular attractions: tickets, what to expect and how to get there.
A quick guide to visiting one of Tokyo's most popular attractions: tickets, what to expect and how to get there.
A guide on where to get games, where to play them and even how to find people to play with.
Hang out with Snoopy and the gang at the newly reopened Snoopy Museum in Tokyo. Read our first impressions on exhibitions, the Peanuts Cafe and more.
Top tips for whooping ass at crane games + video with our favorite arcades in Tokyo!
Looking for robots in Tokyo? We list the top 5 spots to come face-to-face with Pepper, Gundam and other badass 'bots in the big city.
Guide to Nakano Broadway in Tokyo — a massive shopping mall perfect for geeks, otaku and tourists alike.
A guide to keeping a cat in Tokyo. We breakdown the costs from getting one (or several), to medical, food, toys and even the sad eventuality of a burial.
Access to 120 game cabinets and console setups to help you answer that question.
Asking locals in Tokyo for advice on a good, affordable place to live in Tokyo is usually an exercise in futility. Tokyo is so damn big that people can only give you their opinions on the area immediately around where they live. Don't expect to …
The impression that Tokyo is a pricey town to live in is an old trope, but unfortunately it isn’t far off from the truth. Otherwise you wouldn’t be visiting a site offering tips for saving money on sex by forgoing love hotels for karaoke booths. …
Harajuku is great for any seasoned or upcoming cheapo planning a day out shopping. If the thrift shops and gift stores on Takeshita Street don’t keep you busy, then perhaps the oddities of Harajuku fashion will. You can see the Lolita goths and …
When I’m not downing buckets of beef jerky while wrestling a grizzly bear, I like to get in touch with my sensitive side. I’m talking knick-knacks, birdhouses, bathroom rugs and more. You know, the whole shebang. Unfortunately, cheapos like us …
I don’t know about the rest of you, but if it weren’t for the 100yen shops around Tokyo, I probably wouldn’t have made it this long in Japan. Education isn’t exactly found in the bargain bin these days and so after tuition fees stripped me to …
If you live in Japan and have not yet experienced the phenomenon of karaoke, what is wrong with you? Oh, I get it. Watch out guys, we’ve got a badass over here! Captain Bummer of the S.S. Insipid thinks they’re too cool to sing Katy Perry with …
Finding a job in Tokyo was rough being fresh off the boat and not knowing a lot of Japanese. I was that foreigner at every McDonald's holding up the line pointing and grunting at the menu. It didn't exactly give me a lot of options in the job …
\As an advocate of all things ice cream and gyoza, it would be a disservice for me to not tell people about Namco Namja Town. It’s not just one of Japan’s largest indoor amusement parks, it’s a shrine to fried dumplings and frozen treats. …
If there is one thing I can say I have learned to love while living in Japan, it’s walking. I used to hate walking. If I wanted to hit the Taco Bell just three blocks away from my house and the family car wasn’t available, I’d skip eating. Now …
Continuing on my culture hopping articles, I wanted to bring attention to a museum that I don’t think a lot of people know about. At least not people like me, lazy and apathetic to the world around me. However, I’m also not one to turn a …
Being that this is Tokyo, there is an excess number of unique places to eat ramen. Each shop can have it’s own style and taste, as well as differ in price from shop to shop. Fortunately, more often than not, ramen is going to be in the average …
How much would you pay to see a panda eat bamboo behind a thick layer of plexiglass? 50,000yen? 100,000yen? Try 600yen. Talk about the deal of a lifetime, right? Yes, for just 600yen you can spend the day at Ueno zoo and stare at cute pandas …
The Tokyo National Museum is Japan’s largest and oldest museum, housing over 133,000 pieces of art and archeological objects from Japan and other parts of Asia. At least that is what the pamphlet says. Admittedly, I had to go for a class trip, …
Do you know what I always seem to have in my pocket? 400yen. I’ll be walking home from class; starving and trying to prep myself for a cup-ramen dinner, when I just casually sense the urge to check a pocket I have no recollection of ever using. …
As a member of the male sex, I have no idea what constitutes as fashionable. If someone tells me I have to dress nice, I usually just take a look at the color wheel and hope for the best. Then they throw me a curve ball and tell me I wasn’t …
Planning a big trip to Tokyo? Do you live in Tokyo and want to spend the weekend hitting those tourist spots you never got a chance to see? If you're anything like me, you spend more time planning the trip than actually enjoying it. Especially …