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Prepare yourself, Sydney – Robot Restaurant heads Down Under
One of Tokyo’s essential tourist attractions, Shinjuku’s Robot Restaurant, finally appears to have outgrown its surprisingly spacious Kabukicho basement: as reported by our friends at Time Out Sydney,...
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Don’t be shy … Sing karaoke in Harajuku and win a free crepe
When in Japan, do as the Japanese do. In this case, we’re talking about karaoke and one very new spot where you can put your singing skills to the test – for free. At the recently opened Moshi Moshi...
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Muji kits out new Narita terminal
On Wednesday, Narita International Airport launched its newest terminal. But while it’s specifically aimed at budget airlines such as JetStar, Peach and Vanilla Air, there’s nothing budget about its...
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ANA launches ‘Star Wars’ plane in the run up to ‘The Force Awakens’
‘Star Wars’ fans have to wait until December for the release of ‘The Force Awakens’, but in the meantime you can fly on a plane designed to look like R2-D2. Last week, Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA)...
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Park Hotel’s new ‘artist room’: geisha and goldfish
Standard hotel rooms can be pretty, well, standard. So it’s refreshing when a hotel group comes up with a way to inject inspiration into your basic bed-desk-TV decor. In 2012, Park Hotel Tokyo...
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Our mag is now a regular at the Grand Hyatt
We couldn’t be happier to announce that our quarterly Time Out Tokyo magazine is now a regular feature in every guest room at the Grand Hyatt Tokyo in Roppongi. A symbol of the neighbourhood’s...
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And the survey results are in: ‘What’s your favourite thing about Tokyo?’
Last month we created a short survey in which we asked you: ‘What’s your favourite thing about Tokyo?’ We had a flood of both interesting and amusing responses – thank you – and three lucky...
View ArticleHow do the shinkansen stay so clean? Watch the ‘Seven-minute miracle’…
If you’ve had the pleasure of taking a trip on one of Japan’s shinkansen, you’ll appreciate how clean and comfortable the trains are. But considering the strict timetable that train drivers have to...
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Japan’s most famous cat dies, and gets enshrined as a deity
Photo: Takobou at the Japanese language Wikipedia via Wikimedia Commons In line with Japan’s love for all things cat, when Tama, the stationmaster of Kishi Station, Wakayama Prefecture, passed away...
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This good-looking gorilla is making women hot under the collar
Photo by Ryo under the Creative Commons licence In Nagoya, the local Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Garden has women flocking to its doors to ogle at a…. gorilla. Heralded as an exceedingly...
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Pop Japan pops up in New York
Stopping by the Big Apple in late August? Don’t miss the Waku Waku Pop Culture Festival, which is taking over Brooklyn’s Expo Center on the last weekend of the month (Saturday 29 and Sunday 30)....
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