Everyone is in love with Mister Donut! They are the main doughnut shop in Japan. You can find them on every street corner, in every city in Japan, and always conveniently located.
But, spoiler alert! This list isn't just about the mysterious secrets of mister doughnut, it's about a feud between brothers and a legendary rivalry that transpired over...
A Cat Cafe in Tokyo is such a purr-fect idea! It's simply a business that takes care of cats, and allows people to come pay to play with them. It's a concentrated niche that caters to one specific demographic of people and, as it turns out, quite a few of them at that!
At first it seemed so foreign to...
Traveling can often mean carrying a lot of cash and valuables around with you at all times, in strange places, where you don't speak the language and often don't really know where you are. Valuables like cash, credit cards, passports, birth certificates, etc.
So, what happens when you lose all your cash and all your credit cards in one fail...
Kiddyland Tokyo is the largest toy store in Japan filled with every kind of imaginable toy. Toys for every kid, every adult, every age, and every interest. They've got novelty items, knick knacks, animatronic animals, and everything in between.
What You Need to Know Before
Your Trip to Kiddyland Tokyo
Where is Kiddyland?
Kiddyland Tokyo is located in the Omotesando district, a short...
How to behave inside a tiny Japanese shower as a giant foreigner is probably not a question you ever thought you'd need to google search. But here you are. Standing face to face with a shower nozzle positioned lower than your belly button and a large square box as deep as your shoulders.
This is different.
But...
Of all the Disney parks in the entire world, Tokyo Disneyland is our family's favorite (see our rankings)!
Tokyo Disney offers two parks, Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo Disney Sea. The property as a whole is unique in that all the other Disney properties are set apart from the mainland. In Orlando you have to enter a compound, quite literally. At Hong Kong...
Tokyo is a vibrant city full of people, life, excitement and adventure. The longer we stayed there, the more we discovered how much this city truly had to offer. From dining and shopping to exploring and playing this city has lot of somethings for everyone.
►Ranking: #cleandiaper
Sites and Attractions:
Tokyo Disneyland
Tokyo Disney Sea
Tokyo Disney Celebration Hotel
Tokyo Metropolitan Building
Don Quijote
Original...
We did not want to miss the Bullet Train on our trip to Japan! Even though I get awesome airline rates as an airline employee, we were willing to forgo this luxury to ride the bullet train both times we traveled from major metropolis to major metropolis.
The first time we rode the Bullet Train was from Hiroshima to...
The Rengeoin Sanjusandgendo Temple in Kyoto is the famous temple of 1001 life sized statues of the Buddhist Goddess Kannon Bodhisattva. Kannon resides in the center of the temple flanked on each side by 500 bodhisattvas in 10 columns of 50.
Translated, the name has a very specific meaning. Rengeoin means Temple of the Lotus while Sanjusangendo literally means...
Themed dinner restaurants in Tokyo are easy to spot.
Pictures of weird and kooky paraphernalia dancing wildly around in the windows with cryptic signage and someone dressed up in full themed regalia dancing outside the entrance is almost guaranteed. They are everywhere in Tokyo and come in every theme, category and style.
The very best of them all is the...
