Posted on 23 March 2015. Tags: LINE, Marks, Museum, opening, SPECIAL, Ticket, TokyoUeno Special museum ticket marks opening of Tokyo-Ueno Line The Yomiuri Shimbun A special ticket that can be used for three museums in Tokyo’s Ueno Park is now available to mark the recent opening by East Japan Railway Co. of its Ueno-Tokyo Line […]
Posted on 29 March 2015. Tags: anime, attend, Celebrate, Event, fans, half, Japan, Million, Otaku, Summit Otaku summit: Half a million fans to attend event in Japan to celebrate anime To celebrate its global popularity, Tokyo is hosting what organisers are calling the world’s first Otaku summit. Half a million people are expected to attend […]
Posted on 22 March 2015. Tags: assault, attack, cult’s, Deadly, Doomsday, Recalling, sarin, Tokyo Tokyo sarin attack: Recalling doomsday cult’s deadly assault In March 1995, the world’s busiest subway system was brought to a standstill as a mysterious gas was released across the Tokyo underground. Commuters in the Japanese capital began to feel short of […]
Posted on 01 April 2015. Tags: adds, Aviation, from, Narita, Peach, routes, Tokyo Peach Aviation adds two new routes from Tokyo Narita Peach Aviation increased its presence at Tokyo Narita with the launch on 29 March of daily flights to both Fukuoka and Sapporo Chitose. Direct competition on both routes is intense, notably from rival […]
Posted on 25 March 2015. Tags: Hilton, Japan, Odaiba, presence, strengthens, Tokyo, Worldwide Hilton Worldwide Strengthens Presence in Japan with Hilton Tokyo Odaiba Hilton Worldwide today announced the signing of a management agreement with Tokyo Humania Enterprise Inc. to re-brand Hotel Nikko Tokyo and manage the hotel as Hilton Tokyo Odaiba. On October 1, 2015, […]
Posted on 22 March 2015. Tags: Fashion, Haruki, Mirages, Murakami, Smoke, Tokyo, Week Fashion Week Tokyo, Day Two: Smoke, Mirages, and Haruki Murakami Yu Amatsu makes his debut as the designer of legendary house Hanae Mori in a few days; the new gig firmly defines his design guidelines: the party dresses for Mori and “real […]
Posted on 23 March 2015. Tags: Barrymore’s, dreaming, Drew, Foodie, Instagram, Tokyo, Trip Drew Barrymore’s Foodie Trip on Instagram Has Us Dreaming of Tokyo This weekend, Drew Barrymore greeted her Instagram followers from Tokyo with a traditional Japanese breakfast. The actress is off on a foodie trip with husband Will Kopelman and is chronicling the […]
Posted on 19 March 2015. Tags: designer, Fashion, Limbs, Paralympians, Prosthetic, this, Tokyo This Designer Put Paralympians and Prosthetic Limbs on the Tokyo Fashion … Disability on the runway is hardly anything new. In recent weeks alone we’ve seen a model with Down syndrome hit the runway for designer Carrie Hammer’s “Role Models Not Runway […]
Posted on 21 March 2015. Tags: animal, cafes’, offer, pets, quality, Time, Tokyo, urbanites Tokyo animal cafes offer urbanites quality time with pets Pity the poor office worker. It’s midafternoon, and taking a break probably means sneaking off to the vending machine for a soda, or at best slipping out for coffee. But what about […]
Posted on 25 March 2015. Tags: 70th, Anniversary, firebombing, Japan, Marks, Tokyo Japan marks 70th anniversary of Tokyo firebombing Japan has marked the 70th anniversary of the firebombing of Tokyo by US forces that killed more than 100,000 people during World War Two. On 10 March, 1945, American B-29 planes rained down bombs destroying large […]