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How The Japanese Address System Works
I’m not sure if you’ve ever seen a Japanese address written down somewhere before, but if you have, you’ll know that they’re about as long as writing an essay, and perhaps take an equal amount of...
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If Apple Made Capsule Hotels, They Would Look Like This
They look like they belong together, no? I got to stay in some pretty sweet places while shooting TofuguTV stuff, but I gotta say this was one of the coolest. I stayed in two capsule hotels. One...
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Traveling To Japan For The First Time: Planning A 1-2 Week Trip
A lot of people who are visiting Japan for the first time have no idea where to go. I understand! There’s a lot to see and do. While I personally tend to get off the beaten track, I do have a...
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Kansai Vs. Kanto: Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?
Some of you may have heard of the “many differences” between the Kanto and Kansai regions in Japan. In Kanto you have the metropolis of Tokyo and the seaside city of Yokohama. In Kansai, you have the...
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The Beautiful Minds Of The Kyoto Prize
Every November, while the year’s crop of Nobel laureates plan their trips to Stockholm, another group of highly accomplished people gathers in Kyoto, to be honored for their contributions to humanity....
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Japanese Cinderella And The Atomic Bomb
The famous novel Memoirs of a Geisha is told from the perspective of a fictional geisha named Nitta Sayuri. Sayuri has a dramatic, eventful life (with some guy by the name of Koichi causing a lot of...
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City Life Outside Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto
My mouth was hanging open and I know I was being rude, but it was really hard to pull myself together. The woman I was speaking with was from one of the top Japanese Universities. She has had...
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Traveling The Hidden Spots Of Japan With MATCHA
I was visiting my family and friends in Japan last month and one of my friends asked me what I do for work. I proudly answered Tofugu, but didn’t expect that he would know what Tofugu was because he...
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How To Shoot A Samurai Film
A couple of months ago I went to TOEI UZUMASA EIGAMURA, which is both a theme park and an active movie set. The studio has been around since about 1955. But, with the decline in popularity of...
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A Bridge Across Time
Nagasaki’s Megane-bashi (Spectacles Bridge) got its name from the way the reflection of its double arches in the river combine with the bridge itself to look like a pair of glasses. In addition to its...
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