Personal Hanko With Your Name In Japanese or English In Elegant Typographic Designs
Hanko For Non-Japanese Whether it’s done out of necessity or just for fun, it’s not unusual for foreign residents or even non-Japanese visitors to make…
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grape Japan Site Update Featuring Original Illustration By Hiroyuki-Mitsume Takahashi
grape Japan site now updated! If you visited our mobile site today, you may have noticed we have a new look! In fact, so does…
Muslim Women Can Rent Wagara Hijabs To Match Kimonos At Yumeyakata in Kyoto
Kimono Rentals: A Popular Tourist Attraction For many female tourists visiting Japan from abroad, renting a beautiful kimono for a photo shoot or to enjoy…
Japan’s Surprisingly Artistic Manhole Covers Have Their Own Festival, And Of Course Sweets Too
When traveling around Japan, you may notice that manhole covers often have surprising artistic designs. Different towns and regions across Japan display local history and…
In Time For Valentine’s Day, Hironobu Tsujiguchi Startlingly Blends Two Aphrodisiacs In One
As Valentine’s Day approaches, many people are planning on spending some quality time with their sweetheart, which may involve a date with dinner, an exchange…
Designs By Famous Japanese Gagyu Kiln Artist Decorate Limited Edition Vacuums By Shark
Limited edition “Gagyu” EVOPOWER cordless vaccuum cleaners Whether you are cleaning up stray tea leaves off your tatami-matted Japanese tea room, or potato chip crumbs…
Japanese Artist Turns Old Abandoned House into Fully Rotating Art Installation
Atsuko Mochida is a Japanese artist who works with everyday physical spaces to create her art installations, often turning them into something ‘dream-like’, according to…
We Went On A Quest To Find Every Love Live! Sunshine!! Manhole Cover in Numazu
Love Live! Sunshine!! and Numazu For fans of the wildly popular anime Love Live! Sunshine!!, Numazu in Shizuoka Prefecture, which serves as the backdrop for…
A Rose Garden of Lights At the New Tokyo Mega Illumination
(by The Sankei Shimbun via JAPAN Forward) A 10-meter-high light installation in the shape of a large tree sits at the center of the square….
Japanese Illustrator BerryVerrine Dazzles With Awesome Retrowave Kawaii Art
Talented Japanese illustrator BerryVerrine says she likes “neon, pop, kawaii, psychedelic art”, and her vibrant and expressive style definitely backs that up. A majority of…
Japanese Artists Spoof University Entrance English Exam’s Ridiculous Winged Carrot Illustration
University entrance exams are stressful enough, even without the looming fear that you might burst out laughing at any moment because of some surprise surreal…
Virtual Model imma Is Going Viral On Instagram and Twitter
With her beautiful pink hair styled in a cute bob, her large, expressive eyes, flawless skin, full lips and slim proportions, the latest fashion model,…
Toraya’s Elegantly Refurbished Akasaka Flagship Store Is Truly Worth The Visit
Toraya: From Kyoto to Tokyo For half a millennium, Toraya has been making the traditional Japanese confections known as wagashi. Founded in Kyoto in the…
No Mural? No Worries! Japanese Lifehacker Invents Instagenic Angel Wings To-Go
By now, most people have seen images of people posing in front of angel wing murals. Either through Colette Miller’s Global Angel Wings Project launched…
Tokyo’s New “Manga Art Hotel” Has Over 5,000 Manga Titles For Travelers To Lose Themselves In
While net cafes and capsule hotels are mostly viewed as an affordable bare bones way to crash when traveling in Japan or after missing a…