A Photographer Documents His Unlikely Friendship with a 90-Year-Old Japanese Calligrapher A few years back, Ben Beech would often find himself pedaling past a ramshackle building…
9 Events You Don’t Want to Miss This Weekend: April 20-22 Lovely weather in the cards this weekend, and there’s plenty of ways to enjoy it,…
Dagashiya Roundup: 5 Places To Buy Traditional Japanese Snacks Japanese junk food is becoming more well-known around the world: these days you can frequently…
10 Events You Don’t Want to Miss This Weekend: April 13-15 The coming weekend is packed with activities for just about everybody, from food lovers to…
In Hibiya, a New Tokyo Midtown Comes to Town In Central Tokyo there can never be only one, especially when sprawling high-end shopping malls…
A Tribute to Bill Hersey: We Look Back on the Fascinating Life and Times of TW’s Society Columnist Photographs of celebrities, politicians, and dancers. Statues, masks, and handcrafts brought back from decades of…
Tokyo Weekender Gets a Makeover: Check Out Our Brand-New Look! Tokyo is known for being an ever-evolving city, rebuilding and reinventing itself whether through necessity…
10 Events You Don’t Want to Miss This Weekend: April 6-8 Cherry blossom fever has died down, but temperatures keep rising and there’s even more to…
Tour Tokyo Sake Breweries for Free It’s an open secret that Tokyo has sake breweries – nine of them, in fact.…
Tokyo Daddy Issues: Culture for Cry-Babies We have started going to concerts again well over a year ago. The other day…
Create Your Own Fragrant Incense at this Tokyo Workshop Around 10 years ago, Hiro Nakayama was living in New York when she noticed how…
13 Things You Don’t Want to Miss This Weekend: March 30-April 1 This weekend, you could really just spend all of your time checking out the cherry…
It’s All Downhill from Meguro Station: An Area Guide Dirty water, tasty beer, religion and lust – Meguro has it all. We explore the…
Take a Cultural Turn in Shirokane: An Area Guide Long associated with affluence and the wealthy, fashion-conscious “Shiroganese” (a reference to the “Milanese” of…
Top 14 Most Beautiful Places to See Cherry Blossoms in Tokyo One of the best times to be in Tokyo is the end of March, when…
