9 Culture Ueno Park - Sakura Season Susan Tumanon I often see Ueno Park on Japanese TV whenever cherry blossom season approches. I decided to see what the buzz was all about.
10 Culture Cherry Blossoms at Zojo-ji Nicole Bauer Zojo-ji in Tokyo during sakura season: The scene around the temple with salarymen and office ladies enjoying their bento under..
6 Culture Tokyo's Koishikawa Korakuen, Bunkyo Ramon Geoffrey Evangelista Often underrated because of their distant relative, the cherry blossom, plum blossoms are still a sight to behold. Come visit Korakuen..
12 Culture Akasaka’s Hie-jinja Shrine Tomoko Kamishima When Tokugawa Ieyasu set up the government in Edo, Hie-jinja was enshrined inside of Edo Castle (current day Imperial Palace) as..
Culture Tokyo Koenji Awa Odori 2026 Late Aug This dance festival is held annually on the last or second to last weekend of August. Dancing lasts exactly 3 hours, but festivities..
Shopping Design Festa (Autumn) 2025 Nov 15th - Nov 16th Design Festa is a two-day art and design festival held regularly in the Tokyo Big Sight convention center in Odaiba, Tokyo.
9 Culture Plastic Food at Kappabashi, Asakusa Manish Prabhune Attractive synthetic food displays in Japan are sourced from Kappabashi, a street also famous for kitchenware in general.