Once you get inside the door of the Starbucks Reserve Roastery in Tokyo’s Meguro ward, you have several choices, go to the right for the merchandise store, go to the middle section for coffee, go straight left in order to get in line to order Read More …
On February 28th, the largest Starbucks Reserve Roastery in the world opened in Nakameguro, Tokyo. While there are Starbucks roaster cafe’s in Seattle, New York, Milan and Shanghai, this is the largest and is also the first training location in Japan for coffee professionals certified Read More …
For anyone going to the Hiroshima Peace Museum, I highly recommend visiting the shop and picking up the English adaptation of Tezuka Productions and Aoki Takeo’s “Hiroshima no fukkō: Genbaku no higeki o norikoeta hitobito” (Hiroshima’s Revival: Remembering how people overcame destruction and despair) with Read More …
Located in Ebisu is a well-known premium burger restaurant in Tokyo, known as Blacows. With burgers made 100% from Japanese wagyu (Japanese black Angus cows – hence the name of the restaurant) and buns from Maison Kayser, you may be paying a bit more for Read More …
While I wasn’t able to stay to the end of the acosta! event, just the 2.5 hours (and another hour in line), I have to say that acosta! was a fascinating experience for cosplayers and photographers that are passionate, can all be together, meet each Read More …
LEGO is known to have had an extensive amount of fire department related vehicles and sets created in the past few decades and one fire department related vehicle that many will find at retail is the “LEGO City Barbecue Burn Out 60212 Building Kit” impulse Read More …
Back in 2015, LEGO formed a partnership with three automobile manufacturers: Ferarri, McLaren and Porsche to create popular vehicles made out of LEGO’s. The line would be known as LEGO Speed Champions and so popular the line, we saw LEGO also working with other major Read More …
The following is also featured on neo-tokyo 2099: One of the thing that sticks out about acosta! is how it featured both amateur and professional cosplayers and whether a photographer has expensive equipment or not, they are gracious and in my experience, a bit kind. Read More …
Note: The following originally appeared on Neo-Tokyo 2099 We have covered a lot of cosplay since 1993. From the few dozens of cosplayers at Anime America and Anime Expo way back in the early ’90s and have continued to do so 26-years later. But one Read More …
I often stay at west Ikebukuro as it’s one of the best places to stay budget-wise for those traveling to Tokyo, especially solo travelers who want to save money. But there is a part of west Ikebukuro that always fascinates me during the night…
Hi everyone, continuing the vlogs as I am still setting up my laptop. This latest vlog is about going to the boat rental section of Chidorigafuchi Park. I will blog more about this soon and give a guide but for now, you can check out Read More …
Hi everyone, the VLOG continues and probably will continue for awhile until I get everything all setup on this new laptop. But here is another VLOG, with me visiting the Yomiuri Giants official shop, their small G-Shop at Tokyo Dome:
Hey, what’s up everyone! Still working on getting my laptop setup (bare in mind, I can only work on it once I get home from work and not much time right after before I have to get some sleep), this time, I’ll share a few Read More …
What’s up everyone! I am still getting things setup on my new laptop and so, it’s another vlog! This one was when I was leaving Harajuku Kawaii Monster late on Thursday night, going through Harajuku’s Takeshita St., without any crowds but a few people and Read More …
Hi everyone, I’m still in the process of getting things setup on my laptop (as my Mac Mini went kaput). So, trying to find alternatives to the software I purchased on my Mac and seeing what alternatives for Windows 10. To compensate, I’ll be posting Read More …