Zoria April
Zoria is a writer, of the rare poet variety and a passionate photographer. If you see somebody around Tokyo taking photos of concrete walls, it must be her. She loves to dress fashionably and go drink as many cups of coffee as humanly possible, preferably in cafes with a view.
[Shopping] Shaping the City
High Streets and Local Shopping Streets – Two Sides of a Coin
Tokyo is a city of contrasts locked in an interplay, one of which is the balance of high shopping streets and local shopping...
The Shopping Culture of Tokyoites
Curious Edo People and Trendy Tokyoites
Shopping culture has been evolving, absorbing other cultural elements and remixing them into today's shopping landscape. It isn't just the businesses at the forefront of this innovation, but also...
MITSUKOSHI: Pioneering Through the Ages
The Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Main Store is preserving history while leading it at the same time. The Mitsukoshi brand itself dates back to 1673, and it became Japan’s first modern-day department store in 1904. Since...
Tea Ceremony Experience: Gahou-kai & Tsuruya Yoshinobu, Nihonbashi
The way of tea or "chado" tea ceremony is an elegant Japanese tradition that shows the utmost respect to the guest and dates back to the 9th century. A tea ceremony involves not only...
NOHGA HOTEL: Elegance in the Heart of Ueno, Tokyo
Even after a year of living in Japan, I feel like every time I visit Tokyo it has something else to say and I fall in love with its vibrant lifestyle over and over...
Noh Theater Workshop in Tokyo
What is Noh? The word literally means "skill", and is a form of classical drama, created in Iga by Kan'ami Kiyotsugu during the Muromachi period in Japan (14th century). Kiyotsugu incorporated story, dance and...
WAttention 29 Special: ARCHITECTURE & ARTS IN TOKYO
Tokyo – the metropolis of organized chaos, where buildings seem to have grown at will. And they have grown in all shapes and sizes: thin stick-like buildings wedged between bigger ones, wooden temples...
Hedonistic Experience – ANA InterContinental Tokyo’s Red Ruby Chocolate Afternoon Tea
written by Sarah Nishina
It's been said that nine out of ten people like chocolate and they say the tenth person is lying. Which one are you?
The ANA InterContinental Tokyo, a hotel in Akasaka, is proud...
Travelling to Fukushima Disaster Area Seven Years Later
Fukushima Disaster Area Day Tour from Tokyo offered by JapanWonderTravel.com
Life came to a stop - On March 11, 2011 at 2:45pm a 9.0 magnitude earthquake occurred 130 km off the coast of Sendai in...
Tokyo Through Architects’ Eyes
Tokyo has been bottomless inspiration for many architects and architecture admirers from all around the world. As Keisuke Oka, an independent architect we interviewed, put it — buildings are a form of street performance...
