MIDTOWN LOVES SUMMER 2019

A spot deep in Asakusa | Asakusa Chikagai Ninjabar is a bar run by ninjas

CRICKET RAMEN by Earth Boy

A ‘less is more’ approach to a glamorous pedicure

A goldfish aquarium that fascinates ten million visitors | Art Aquarium 2019

Meet Hello Kitty at Sanrio Puroland

Go maid cafe hopping

Billiard New Bunka

Cats! Cats! Cats! Cats everywhere! | Gotokuji Temple

Zazen | Zen World

Nourish your skin with a rice bran enzyme bath

Welcome to Asakura Gallery World | Local Hero★Shuhei Tsuji

Meet the Moomins at this new theme park out in Saitama | Moominvalley Park

MANGA All night long | MANGA ART HOTEL

A small shop full of toy train models | Café Plataku

My Original Converse! | White atelier

Cooking class for herbal cuisine

Negi specialty store Negichin neginegi

Green Shop ‘MICAN’

Delicious ramen with 16 billion midorimushi organisms

Share Green Minami Aoyama | Explore three Insta-worthy spots

A mysterious garden home to 130 different types of moss | Hakone Museum of Art

Visit Todoroki Valley | A green oasis in central Tokyo

World’s Most Intense Green Tea Gelato | Suzukien and Nanaya

GREEN FARM in Ginza | ITOYA

Japan’s traditional scenery still remains at Tokyo’s Inokashira Park

New cafe and laundromat hybrid Baluko Laundry Place x Crossroad Bakery

A former jazz drummer and now a tempura master that serves tempura with drumsticks.

micro pig cafe | mipig Café

Chef Kazu loves Aomori too much | BOIS VERT

Café Meursault D’Apre’s

Stay in a beautiful open-air bath hotel in Shinjuku | Yuen Shinjuku Onsen Ryokan

Mizubeso | Explore Yokohama’s waterfront

Explore the seaside town Misaki with the convenient ‘Maguro Kippu’

Tokyo’s fiercest drag queens assemble| Heisei’s last Department H

Visit Yokohama’s quirky Unko Museum

Kurochaya in Akigawa Valley

Lucite Gallery

Glamping by the sea

Kasai Rinkai Park | The closest beach to Tokyo Station accessible within 15 mins

Chill out in the city | Ichigaya Fish Center

Oshino Hakkai | Eight magnificent springwater ponds around Mt Fuji

Let’s visit the Alishan Café!

Play Tokyo Official Trailer 4

Amazing Outsider Arts in Japan | Nobumasa Kushino Outside Japan Exhibition

Super spicy ramen / Moko Tanmen Nakamoto

This is Odaiba, a new area in Tokyo which was developed during the Heisei era (1989-1990)

Hey | Retro Game Center

Walk this way | John Lurie in Watarium

Chalkboy

Robot Restaurant

Ganguro GAL

hotel zen tokyo

Enjoy an exclusive yakiniku dinner at WM by Wagyumafia

Muji opens its first Japanese hotel and global flagship store in Ginza

Bathhouse murals of Mt. Fuji | Morio Nakajima

Singer “Yurifa”

Marideli | Maeda Mariko

Craftsman who revives old shoes | Small Axe Kenichi Hagiwara

Chawari Meguro | Try 10,000 flavor combinations of green tea cocktails and fried chicken

Kinuta Park’s large Sakura Dome

Hayato Takasu | Sunshine+Cloud Hayama

Plastic Model House

View the cherry blossoms around Odawara Castle

Visit the cherry blossoms in Koedo Kawagoe

Ueno Park’s cherry Blossoms

The best cherry blossoms in Tokyo | Weeping cherry blossoms in Rikugi-en Gardens

Record Master

Nihonbashi Sakura Festival

Hirose Takuma | Kakimori Kuramae Tokyo

Coffee Master | Satei Hatou

Xiborg | Ken Endo

HITOTEMA | The secret of Japanese Cuisine with Naoko Tanijiri

Tasty Salmon Dishes | Shake Kojima

Restaurant for your body | Kinniku Shokudo

Fuel up like an athlete in Daikanyama | FLUX CAFE

Healthy mugitoro set meals | Tororojiru Marikotei

Grilled Ginger Pork Set | Tonkatsu Sansetsu

‘Sleeping’ brown rice set | Yuwaeru Main Store

Sha-shokudo

Dried FishTEISHOKU | Echigoya Yasokichi

PHOTOBOOK DINER MEGUTAMA

DOVER STREET MARKET GINZA | Elephant Space 2018

Green tea hotel | HOTEL 1899 TOKYO

Cardboard artist | Carton

Play Tokyo Official Trailer 3

Japan’s first double dome planetarium | KONICA MINOLTA PLANETARIA TOKYO

Onigiri Asakusa Yadoroku

Kawaii Stationery Exposition 2018!!

NOHGA HOTEL Ueno

Zip-Fastener Ship by Yasuhiro Suzuki | Sumida river art project

100 Yen Osechi

Setagaya Boroichi (flea market)

Winter Illumination in Odaiba 2018 | team Lab Borderless Venus Fort

Agata Takezawa Building | Building full of unexpected art

PLUS TOKYO | Experience a different kind of Ginza at night

Let’s celebrate the season start of Beaujolais Nouveau – produced by Hanachiyo

Music Cocktail Club at La Donna

Ozu Washi

Stopover Tokyo｜A place that inspires wanderlust

Sumida River Disco with a Mirror Ball Car

Edoya Nihonbashi | Tools for everyday life loved throughout generations

Kantsuma Bar

Skytree Terrace Tours | Experience wind, lights and sounds of Tokyo

Ocharaka Nihonbashi | The sommelier who fell in love with Japanese green tea

Nihonbashi Cruise

NIHONBASHI DASHI BAR

Kickboxing fitness at Ihara Dojo

The world’s ONLY Pokémon Café! | Pokémon Center Tokyo DX

Designart TOKYO 2018

SUIGIAN | Japanese performance & cuisine

Café NO RAILS | 夜はまた別の顔

Nakagin Capsule Tower Building

A Night at Amaranth Lounge

Shibuya / Namikibashi – Tempu Takoyaki –

NANZUKA | Todd James Exhibition “Natures Candy”

Good Meals Shop | A new way to enjoy gin

Shinjuku Gyoen Night Art Walk

Lemonade by Lemonica

Surf-style ‘Kaku-uchi’

Getting a haircut in Tokyo / PIA HAIR SALON TOKYO

Katsuo Shokudo / KATSUO 100%

Train Hostel Hokutosei

Park and Beer/ Racines Farm to Park

Super Yosakoi

Tokyo Bay’s Fireworks Festival -Edomode- as seen from the sea

Askusa Samba Carnival 2018

Kecak Festival / Geino Yamashiro-gumi

Sports in the city – Sporu Shinagawa Oimachi

Book and Bed Tokyo | Shinjuku

Mori Building Digital Art Museum Epson teamLab Borderless

RAGE／New generation e-sports

Tsukiji Hongwan-ji temple’s bon dance festival

Fukagawa Hachiman Matsuri / Tomioka Hachimangu Shrine’s water splash festival in summer

Ginza Sony Park : A Complete Guide

BBQ ＆ HANAYASHIKI

Art & Beer / The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

Maker Faire Tokyo 2018

Hummer Café

Very kawaii ice cream／Japanese Ice Ouka

Vegetable Sweets / Azabu Yasaigashi

Paletas / Frozen fruit bar

Maxell Aqua Park Shinagawa − An impressive dolphin show with digital fireworks

Matcha Beer Garden | Restaurant 1899 Ochanomizu

Iced sweet potatoes

Chilled Chinese noodles: Nangoku Syuka

The timeless flavour of Manpuku’s cold Chinese noodles

Wachina Roppongi

Chilled Chinese noodles in swanky Kagurazaka: Ryuho

One-coin noodles / Misoaji Matador

Ronkochucha Honten’s chilled coriander noodles

Ribayon

Enjoy a fun barbecue on top of a shopping mall | Topyrec Plaza BBQ

Hatsune | 初音 | Tokyo’s oldest confectionery shop

CITAN | Hostel, café, bar, dining | Where the story begins

Dandelion Chocolate

Custom-made sweets MAPRIL

#FFFFFFT Sendagaya

How to make Japanese curry

Kuriya otona Kurogi | Classy, grown-up sweets

Nui. Hostel & Bar Lounge | Beyond All Borders

teamLab★Planets TOKYO | Become immersed in a massive art space

World’s Richest Sesame Ice Cream | Gomaya Kuki Harajuku

Soranoiro / Taste Michelin-worthy hiyashi chuka

The birthplace of hiyashi chuka in Japan / Yosuko Saikan

Dai-Gomu-Sai | A latex extravaganza in Uguisudani

Tokyo Fight Club

Hoshino Resorts OMO5 Tokyo Otsuka

bivouac at town | nine houes

Limits | Digital Art Battle

The Tokyo Kimono Show

Tokyo Rainbow Pride

SOGETSU / IKEBANA

The Farm Universal

Bonsai warrior | Masashi Hirao

Botanical art

Tokyo’s walls

Shu-play bar

Traveling Hakone Vol.1 | Lake Ashinoko and Komagatake

COMME des GARÇONS through an insider’s eyes

Archive Store Shibuya | Collection of COMME des GARÇONS since 1980s

Shoetree / Justification of deterioration

Tokyo Girls Collection

Bunka Fashion College’s stylish entrance ceremony

ULTRA TEENS FES

Harajuku Kawaii Tour

TOHO SAKURA

Hanabar | Eat and drink your fill of flowers

Fulfill all your Insta-dreams of Japan at Arakurayama Sengen Park

Amazing Tulip Garden in Showa Kinen Park

Nihon Minka-en | Japan Open-air Folk House Museum

Floating Sakura | Enjoy cherry blossom viewing while cruising along Tokyo’s waterways

Shibuya Runway | Shibuya Fashion Week 2018

＃AyakaKomatsu ＃Harajuku ＃instagenic ＃tour

Seek out sakura at Tokyo’s cemeteries | Spring has arrived in Tokyo

Record-breaking! Walls covered with thousands of glasses!

House to not to die/ Reversible Destiny Lofts MITAKA In Memory of Helen Keller

Sazaedo / FUKUSHIMA

Ouchijuku / FUKUSHIMA

Tsurugajo / FUKUSHIMA

Aquamarine Fukushima / FUKUSHIMA

hotel koe Tokyo / New Hotel in the middle of Shibuya !

The world’s cutest photo sticker shop / moreru mignon

instagrammable Dessert Buffet

Wonder Festival

Tokyo Tower Top Deck Tour

Vovo

Japanese Curry Awards

Curry Star / Jinsuke Mizuno

Mobile curry

Yanaka, Tokyo Yakuzen (me dicinal) curry Jinenjo

Forrester Spice & Music

Shinkiba CASICA

Aalaap Lene Waala Tokyo – Tokyo’s number one spice spot

Erick South | South Indian Curry & Bar

Shimokitazawa Magical Curry Tour feat. Curry Man

Curry Station Niagara | Ride on a Curry Train

aibo | Shake paws with a cute robot dog

Where anyone can be a Japanese potter – Urawa Arts Labo

Kurage | Japan’s first rubber haute couture

Amazing JIRO | Paint makeup beyond your wildest dreams

Kimono Gentlemen in Tokyo City / Y.& SONS KANDA

Shopping Street

Eraser stamp artist

Sentogurashi 2 | Sento schematics | Illustrator Honami Enya

Sentogurashi 1 | WHOLE9 painting unit

Fujiko F Fujio Museum

YANAKIKU

BODY MAKE REVOLUTION

Baby Doll meets Bambi Naka | Opening Party of “DRESS TO ROCKIN’ HORSE”

SAMURAI Film

Dmm.make.AKIBA/ shared manufacturing space

Design Festa

Masking Tape Exhibition / Koji Iyama

The Railway Museum

Have a date in Ginza | Ginza’s tasty terrace

Have a date in The National Art Center, Tokyo | 国立新美術館デート

PLAYTOKYO: The DORAEMON Tokyo 2017

Day Trip – Rice harvesting in Uonuma

TOKYO x Cawaii x Date-Meeting Spots-

The most beautiful mosque in Asia | Tokyo Camii |東京ジャーミイ

PIGMENT TOKYO

Exhibition of Shinkai Makoto| How anime masterpieces are born

Have a date in Tennoz Isle | 天王洲アイルデート

TOKYO SARYO

CUPNOODLES MUSEUM Yokohama

Furoshiki Magic/Musubi

unique japanese record shop

Cultivate your love with a date / Jindaiji

A date in another dimension / HOTEL GAJOEN TOKYO

The Four-eyed | Deep into Shinjuku Kabukicho

WONDERFUL KAIJU WORLD | Nakano Daikaiju-salon 大怪獣サロン

Kenji Daikoku BnA Hotel

Okamalt | Margarette’s gay book café | 新宿2丁目ブックカフェ・オカマルト

DEPARTMENT-H | Most Venerable Fetish Party in Tokyo デパートメントH

TAMIYA PLAMODEL FACTORY

All Day One

Let’s enjoy Vending Machines　自動販売機

EKIBENYA MATSURI / 駅弁屋 祭

SINGAPORE BAK KUT TEH / シンガポール バクテー

Milkyway

Umbrella department / Waterfront

Puppet House Tokyo | パペットハウス | First marionette experience

THE GUNDAM BASE Tokyo/ガンダムベース東京

36th Sumida Kinshicho Kawachi Ondo Bon Odori

Someone you can talk to about love/HAJIME☆FANTASY

Kintsugi – the Japanese art of repairing ceramics

Cardboard Artists/ダンボール女子

Meet a Whale Shark at Notojima | 能登島のジンベイザメ

Siro-A ‘That’s ZENtertainment!’

Kanazawa City Walkabout | 金沢市内の名所散歩 | PLAY▶KANAZAWA

Zombie Debate / RAKUGO

The cut-out photo board master/ 顔ハメ看板ニスト

House party fun: temaki sushi

Jotaro Saito “Kimono, an evolving tradition”

Pingpong Paradise/ T4 Tokyo

500 Furins in the wind |風鈴| Escape from the hot summer

Art Aquarium 2017 | アートアクアリウム | Edo,Coolness of Kingyo

Japanese confectionery / TOKYO MISE

How to order Udon / Let’s check out Hanamaru Udon!

ARCHI-DEPOT Museum | 建築倉庫 | Learning about the diversity of Japanese architects

YAKINIKU GRILLED MEAT

DEEP ASAKUSA TOUR | 浅草 | WIRED HOTEL ASAKUSA

Wine Festival

DC BBQ

Play Tokyo Official Trailer 2

Have you ever seen a flying penguin? | 空飛ぶペンギン |Sunshine Aquarium

Explore the world of fetishist fashion at this Harajuku boutique

One-day trip to Uonuma

How to stay at Henn na Hotel / 変なホテル

Alternative sushi stand

HOW TO MAKE KINMIYA COCKTAILS

Imperial Palace run / 皇居ラン

NAKAMURA TEA LIFE STORE | How to brew great tea with a Japanese teapot

Play Tokyo Official Trailer

BENTO LAB

Portrait Creation System／似顔絵マシーン

BEER POSTERS IN JAPAN

Meat Sushi/肉寿司

First time for stand-and-eat yakiniku | 立食い焼き肉 治朗丸 | Fall in love with Jiromaru

All things in the present are judged by things in the past

¥100 all-you-can-eat karaage / 100円唐揚げ食べ放題

Have you ever seen “Ayers Rock” on a hot plate? | 大木屋 Ohkiya Ichigaya

ZUSHI BEACH FILM FESTIVAL

beeteat / gibier & curry restaurant

Shibuya Niku Yokocho | 渋谷肉横丁 | Girls just wanna have Meat

Love at first sight in Tokyo’s Kuramae | 蔵前｜ Kakimori and CAMERA

Yanagibashi Komatsuya | Taste of Edo | Where the sounds of the…

Make sure not to slip! | Fukiware Falls: Niagara of the East

Minami Okabe at the world’s most beautiful dental clinic

YUKATA Ramen / チラナイサクラ

Hoshiko plum liqueur

Shibuya Camp 2017

A look back at Tokyo Coffee Festival 2017 Spring

Stories Shimokitazawa

Bring on the night

60 years under Shibuya’s scramble crossing | Hanko-ya Todo Insho

ASAKUSA FOLK SONG IZAKAYA

Fishing Izakaya Zauo | Catch your own dinner in Shibuya

Shibuya Cyclone

Street Art in Shibuya

Trump Room

Stringraphy Experience | A new form of instrument Only in Japan

Commune 2nd

SAKURA▶TOKYO 2017 | The cherry blossoms all over Tokyo are in full bloom!

LIGHT UP NIPPON in Sendai

LIGHT UP NIPPON in Fukushima

LIGHT UP NIPPON in Otuchi

LIGHT UP NIPPON in Hokkaido

DJ SHOTA

Photographer Mika Ninagawa’s wondrous collaboration with jellyfish

Sony’s history of failures

The Local with Yuji Otsuki

Shibuya Camp

Tori no Ichi

DinDon

Izakaya Kayabuki | Weirdest Monkey Tavern

Shibuya Halloween Mega Street Party

Bar Bonobo

Samurai Sword Toothpick

The 3 Best Rice Brands in Japan

Aqua Park Shinagawa

#crafts_TRADITION&DESIGN_Takeo Paper

#art_OUTSIDE&INSIDE_andogallery

Like a Rolling Yo-yo

The Best Thai Food in Asakusa’s Underground

Like eel sushi? This place has some of the best in Japan!

Japanese Tenugui Handkerchiefs by Kamawanu

Traditional Japanese Candy Making

Tokyo Escalator Journey

Fine Dining in a Yakatabune

Sail Tokyo’s Rivers

Nostalgic Yogiri no Watashi

The Best Taiyaki in Tokyo

Leam Edo Kiriko Glass Cutting in Asakusa

Sanja Matsuri Fever

The 1 Million Dollar Bonsai

The Best Sandwiches in Tokyo are in Daikanyama

Until the Takoyaki get Round

Have Authentic Vietnamese Food in Kamata

Passing Through Red Gateways

Ume Viewing @ Tokyo Dome

Bird Watching Near Haneda

Airplane Lovers Beach

Hurry to the Observatory

Walking the Rainbow Bridge

Buy an omlette pan at Kappabashi’s Kitchen Town

Street Donburi in Tsukiji

Get Art on Your Nails

Konbini Food 1: Basic Natto

Ramen in Shibuya {MACHIDA SHOTEN}

SHODO at Elephant Studio

Mochi pounding

How to pray at a Japanese temple

Try a Siberia cake in Tsukiji

LIGHT UP NIPPON in Hiroshima

Cassette tapes Resurgence | Waltz Nakameguro

Beer sommelier Nanase

Nagatoro

Paradise Alley in Kamakura

anagla

Bar hop in Togoshi-ginza

TOKYO NEON

Devil Craft Beer

Kitakamakura Trip – Following in the footsteps of Yasujiro Ozu

How to make miso

Bany Doll Tokyo

Erimaki Socks

Shinjuku Nichome AiSOTOPE LOUNGE | Finding Babie-No-Bitch

Shinjuku Niku-ku Pan to Circus

How to drink Hoppy

New Nippon Bar ‘Addiction’ in Takadanobaba

More haste, less speed

Hitachino Brewing Lab. | Craft ‘Made in Japan’ Beer

Kapuki, a new-wave kimono shop along the river in Nakameguro

There’s a hidden ladyrinth inside this Shibuya building

Exploring SARUSHIMA

See Nikko and die

CASUCA | Jewelry and Underwear

BLACK&WHITE

Twillo

FUNDOSHI – Japanese traditional underwear

Kinchakuda | OMG 5 million lycoris flowers

Retro Cycle | Makers of a unique ‘mama-chari’ bicycle

ToTouSha – Private tea ceremony in English

Zyupan – rent a kimono and stroll through Arashiyama

Uzumasa Toei Kyoto Studio Park

Bar Tantei – a hidden ‘detective bar’

Enter the biggest Buddha of them all

Behind the Mask

COSPLAY SHOP CANDY ONE

NOKOGIRIYAMA “Sawtooth Mountain”

Gachapon kaikan

escape the noise and dive into a sea of nostalgia

Rock’n’Roll is Here Today

the only bar in Japan with its own grave

The oldest soba restaurant in Japan

Tsukasa: a Japanese Wildflower Florist

Yakatabune of Arashiyama

a blue ogre makes rice balls with love

A Gallery Built into a Kyoto Landmark

Invitation from Underground

The station with no exit

Curry Rice & Ramen at Sakaeya Milk Hall

The most beautiful Falls near Mt.Fuji

Be here now

A Place for the Fireflies

Smells Like Rock’n’Roll Spirit

Button Treasure

Merrymaking at a DIY Bar

Looking for Japan’s Salar be Uyuni

Calling from Mount Takao

Next time you come to Tokyo, be sure to pick up some of these beans!

Maizuru: a Plastic Food Sample Store

The Dope Vintage Clothing Shop in Tokyo

Bullet Train Sushi – Uobei Shibuya

Rickshaws – the Limousines of Asakusa

Enoshima Wonderland

Walk in the Sky Towards Mt. Fuji

Head to the Music Kissa Wonderland

Get the Complete Treatment at a Japanese Barber Shop

Staying in a Tokyo Ryokan

The Amazing Kakita River

The Most Beautiful Wisteria in the World

Wanting to be Original

The Next Big Thing in Japan: Goldfish Café

A Trip to the Blue Blue Hill

Kamata Street Sento & Gyoza

Go Under the Railway Tracks

Kojo moe in Kawasaki

Take a a Photo of a Lost City : Kawasaki Warehouse Kowloon Castle

Eat macrobiotic food in Shibuya

Go to an owl café

Drink sake in Yanesen

Drowned in Cherry Blossoms

Far from Hustle and Bustle of the City

Sakura Boat

Hanami With Frank Lloyd Wright

Kawazu Sakura | Get a sneak preview of spring