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Kanamara Penis Festival Reminder
This is just a reminder that Japan’s most bizarre, hilarious festival is coming up soon....
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Nokogiri-yama
If Nokogiri-yama was in Kyoto, it would almost certainly be an A-list tourist attraction. It has a...
Read MoreLove Hotel Crime and an S&M Hotel
Hope you’re not getting tired of love hotels. Today’s sample from the book Love Hotels – An Inside Look at Japan’s Sexual Playgrounds (reprinted with permission) is about the dark side of love hotels, an incredible...
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The Tire Park
Tokyo’s Nishirokugo Koen, better known as Tire Koen, is about the most unusual park...
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The Meguro Emperor Love Hotel
This is the Meguro Emperor, Japan’s all-time most famous love hotel. When it opened in 1973,...
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Gogatsu Ningyo, the Dolls of Boys’ Day
Japan has some of the most amazing dolls in the world, and when I went to visit my wife’s...
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Tanuki Statues
A tanuki is a raccoon dog, an Asian animal that, although it looks like a raccoon, is actually a...
Read MoreFearsome Nio at Entsuu-ji Temple
Entsuu-ji is a kind of a cheesy-looking Zen Temple near Minami-senju Station in Tokyo, but it has some really cool Buddhist sculptures. These are kongo rikishi, the “power lords of the diamond realm,” and they stand guard at...
Read MoreWavy Tokyo
My new digital camera has a panorama photo feature. I discovered that if you tilt the camera back and forth as you pan, you get this kind of cool wavy effect. Please click on the photos to get the full effect of the panorama....
Read MoreBoso no Mura Folk Village
The Boso no mura is a fantastic blend of history, nature, and beautiful architecture in Chiba, near Narita Airport. It doesn’t seem to get many visitors, which is really a shame because it’s a really worthwhile...
Read MoreRainbow Bridge Walk
The Rainbow Bridge is a Tokyo landmark connecting the island of Odaiba with the rest of the city. At the end of Golden Week, I decided to walk across it and see a different view of Odaiba and Tokyo Bay. It’s actually quite...
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The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation
The Kagaku Miraikan in Tokyo’s Odaiba district really is a museum that everyone should see....
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