Are you familiar with Japanese mailboxes / postboxes? Usually they are red but depending on where you are, you may come across a unique one. The other day I noticed a special one at the Saitama City Hall. This design…
Low Gear Only parking space
This is a parking lot in the downtown of Tokyo. The reason the ceiling is arched is because it is under the elevated train rails that run through the city. The floors and walls have not been overly remodeled, giving…
How is Taiyaki made?
When you scrolling in Tokyo, sometimes you can come up with a Taiyaki shop. Being lured by the sweet smell, you just find that it is hard to reframe from yourself to by it.
Parfait to call it at night
do you know it has a unique culture of “Parfait to call it at night”?
Out on the Farm
Japan has a lot of farm land, but I don’t usually think of farm animals… my image is mostly of hunched over old people working in their rice fields. Recently I took a trip out to a farm in Chiba…
Is Panda Fever back?
It is not too much to say that giant panda is the most popular animal in Japanese zoos.
Olympic Host City
As the world knows, Tokyo is the host city of the 2020 Olympics. I was really excited to experience living in an Olympic host city during the Olympic period. I applied for tickets and was able to get tickets for…
Having dinner under the wing of a Boeing 787♪
During my 1 week business trip to the Chubu International Airport, I found a fantastic facility called “Flight of Dreams”. One day, when I finished my work, I saw a sign that said there are restaurants open in Terminal 2. It’s a little far from the airport train station, but I just followed the path until I arrived and was so surprised with this amazing spot! It was a food court where you can have dinner under the wing of Boeing 787
Shop Grand Opening
Recently I went to Asakusa to check out a friend’s new Belgian potatoes (fries) shop. They were planning to open about a month ago but then Japan went into a state of emergency because of COVID-19 cases so the opening…