When so many people want to live in one place, there are bound to be some drawbacks. Here are the reasons some people hate ...

Nights out drinking can often end badly. But in Japan, they have a habit of going spectacularly wrong for government ...

The Tokyo Metro subway system offers through trains to Kawagoe-shi station on the TOBU Tojo line, and Hanno station on theSEIBU Ikebukuro line. Please make sure to take a train leaving for Wako-shi & ...

The company installed special blue lights above platforms in all 29 stations on the Yamanote Line.[1] Blue is considered a calming color, associated with the sky and sea, and the lights were tried in ...

Ehomaki is a thick, rolled sushi traditionally enjoyed during the Japanese holiday, Setsubun (February 2, 2025). This unique custom involves eating the entire roll as a whole in silence! Doing so is ...

LINE is a Japanese instant messenger app, produced by the eponymous corporation. In Asia, the most popular instant messenger apps have evolved to become platforms in their own right. On these, users ...

From January 15 to March 16, 2025, Tokyo Disneyland® is hosting Vanellope's Sweet Pop World as part of the third installment of the special "Disney Pal-Palooza" series. This event brings to life the ...

Our walk along the Yamanote Line starts at Ōsaki Station, the loop’s southern tip and one of Tokyo’s recently redeveloped districts. This is a part of Tokyo foreigners hardly get to see.

The Shinjuku-Yamanote course also is unusual in that inscriptions and ... The route is relatively straightforward (much of it follows the route of the Oedo subway line) and pilgrims may choose to ...

EAST Japan Railway Company (JR East) has confirmed its prototype E235 suburban EMU will enter commercial service on Tokyo's circular Yamanote Line on November 30. The 1.5kV dc 1067mm-gauge train is ...

EAST Japan Railway Company (JR East) unveiled its new generation E235 EMU for Tokyo's Yamanote Line to the press at its Shinagawa depot on March 28. The prototype 11-car train will enter passenger ...