It wasn’t all that long ago that Shibuya was considered one of the top drinking spots in Tokyo, right up there with Shinjuku and Ginza. So what’s happened? Hot Pepper’s researchers have some theories, ...

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Ishikawa is a sister chain to long-established Tokyo sushi restaurant Tsukiji Aozora Sandaime, and their eye for quality seafood meant that the uni was decadently rich, the ikura enticingly firm, and ...

Dance Towns & Dragons. Nagasaki Prefecture is a rather popular tourist destination and even placed in very respectable 11th place in the prefectural attractiveness ranking this year for its many ...

Each year, monks from Shinguji, a temple in the town of Yao, Osaka Prefecture that was founded in the late 17th century, hold a massive funeral service. Last year’s ceremony was to celebrate and put ...

Häagen-Dazs’s Japan hardly ever disappoints, but hardly any ice cream has ever made our taste-tester this happy.

The first event of its kind in Japan converts traditional culture into a thrilling new sport of strength and technique.

Number of international visitors to Japan continues to rise, but spending patterns are shifting as bargains start to dry up.

On September 22, a 69-year-old man stopped by a house he owns in the Kagawa city of Mitoyo. When he opened up the refrigerator, he saw a pack of udon noodles inside, but he didn’t buy or put them ...

Nintendo took a break from expanding last year, but now it’s getting ready to open its first new location since 2023. As revealed back in May, Fukuoka is the next city to be getting a Nintendo shop, ...

Enjoy an elevated Starbucks experience at this famous tourist site.

As the cultural anthropologists who make up SoraNews24’s readership are well aware, autumn is tsukimi/moon-viewing burger season in Japan, when the nation’s hamburger providers serve up sandwiches ...