Umbrella and Japan: a love affair
Japanese people have a gift to feel when it is going to rain. As soon as the first rain drop drops, they all get their umbrella open. I come from Belgium. In Belgium, it rains a lot, and often. Rain has many feelings: cold, big drops, small drops, a wall of rain, ... Nevertheless, nobody has um…(405 words)
Claire
Umbrella Shopping Convenience store Department store Souvenir Bus2 sushi place you need to visit...
2 streets behind the Matsuya department store, there is a small sushi shop called Marui. Their fish come from Tsukiji market directly. Price is very reasonable. You get a lunch for 900 or 1000 yen and in the evening, you also have some menu possibilities that will not let you leave with empty p…(209 words)
Claire
Sushi Visit Ginza Department store Tsukiji Evening LunchEnjoy Japanese department stores basements !
You might associate a Japanese word “department store” with expensive stores, but every Japanese department store has its own depachika and all of which are crammed with attractive shelves containing a wide range of foods from a delicious bento box to gorgeous sweets yet for reasonable prices. Aisl…(308 words)
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Department store Depachika Bento (box meal) Takashimaya Sweets MitsukoshiSatisfy Your Sweet Tooth in Japan with a Different Kind of Sweet
As a pancake boom sweeps the nation, waffle shops are everywhere and gooey goops of chocolate sauce are merrily mixed into multi-flavored ice cream at Coldstone, it might be hard for you to imagine the the not-so-sweet sweet in Japan is a popular and beloved thing.If you take your friends or ho…(391 words)
Sweets Dessert Restaurant Hotel Art Roppongi Department store Green tea Wagashi Sweets MacchaJapanese-style depachika food courts
Japan has the most elegant restaurants as well as vending machines and convenient stores selling snacks and beverages on seemingly every corner. Somewhere in the middle on the gourmet scale are the food courts of the big department stores. Usually they are located in the department store basement a…(314 words)
David
Food Depachika Department store Bento (box meal) Sweets SouvenirViron is a Patisserie French Jewel in Shibuya, Japan
You know a Patisserie is good when you stumble upon an elegant French couple staring intently at their handheld GPS trying to make out how to get there for breakfast. Viron in the upper reaches of Shibuya just in front of the Tokyu Department Store Honten and Bunkamura is my favorite haunt for …(609 words)
Shibuya Tokyo Restaurant Food Tea Coffee Department store Walk Cuisine Japan TravelJourney on the Tokaido Goju San Tsugi (53-station Highway)
Recently, I took a casual walk to a very famous Tokyo locale known as “Nihonbashi”. It is to the North of JR Tokyo station. It was a nice 10-plus minute walk from the station and as I walked carefully with a sharp eye on my surroundings, I noticed the concentration of major businesses concentrated …(433 words)
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Highway Tokyo Kyoto History Ginza Department store River Walk Tokaido 53 Tsugi NihonbashiThe History of Aster Ginza
The story of the history of the Ginza Aster brand is a very interesting one. Established in 1926, its first product was an American style of Chinese food – Chop Suey, and It’s initial store in Ginza proved very popular soon after opening. Although interrupted by the War and the recovery of Japan …(272 words)
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Japan Food History Ginza Department store style Children Japanese Chinese dumpling Chinese foodMatsuyama Castle and Dogo Onsen - Classic Japan
Whenever my friends from overseas ask me what would be a classic thing to do in Japan, I always reply that visiting a medieval castle and staying in an onsen town (hot spring bath) are a "must". There is no doubt that a visit to Matsuyama City is the perfect way to combine both of these in one tri…(886 words)
Phil
Japan Onsen Castle Visit City Trip Spring Sea Department store AirportEating and drinking in Japan on a budget
Go out for lunch“Make lunch one highlight of your days in Japan ... Select a special lunch set at a sushi bar or traditional Japanese restaurant. You can expect to eat an exquisite selection for less than half of what you would pay at dinner time. These lunch sets are a good option if you want …(464 words)
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Japanese food Japan drinking Japan Travel Department store Bento (box meal) Coffee MatomeHow to spend one day in east Tokyo, for first-time visitors to Japan
Senso-ji Temple: Make your visit special by putting on a Kimono“Kimono is usually made of silk or hemp, beautifully dyed or embroidered. Yukata is made of cotton, the Kimono for summer. Most of Ryokan (Japanese hotels) prepare Yukata in each room as a sleepwear, but you can get out with Yukata …(553 words)
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Tokyo day trip Japanese food Asakusa Kappabashi Japanese garden Matome Department store Souvenir