Welcome to the uncanny valley, where hotel rooms are cheap and receptionists are unsettling in appearance. The Ginza district of Tokyo is famous around …

Seems like a great excuse to visit Osaka in 2018. In 2015 Universal Studios Japan (USJ) started their wildly successful Universal Cool Japan initiative …

If you’re feeling a “little” hungry, then this YouTube channel is for you. Miniature Space is a very popular Japanese YouTube channel that since …

Harry Potter, Final Fantasy and Sailor Mooon all in the same place. As part of an ongoing effort to promote Japanese video game and …

These bento are just too cute to eat. Kyaraben is the Japanese word used to refer to those incredibly cute and very impressive bento …

You don’t have to be insane to go to Sanatorium. Hidden away on the third floor of a rather unremarkable building on an easy …

Not sure what African dancers have to do with snacks but… The Japanese snack company Koikeya has released a commercial promoting some new flavors …

It could be worse… A chain of shops specializing in karaage (Japanese-style fried chicken) called Tenka Torimasu has teamed-up with the Japanese pop idol …

Don’t do any of this next time you visit an onsen Oita Prefecture has released a video featuring former professional Japanese synchronized swimmers doing …

A fun place to check out, unless you’re feeling lazy… For the uninitiated, Gudetama (ぐでたま) is an egg-based Sanrio character that made its (his? …

Ananmaru, a bulldog themed mascot character with a reputation of not being cute, has been named the tourism ambassador of Komae, a city in …

With roughly 24 million foreign visitors in 2016 and almost 20 million the year before, Japan is currently enjoying a massive boom in tourism. …