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- Gift Shop Bonanza in Tokyo
- October 1st, 2012Category: Arts & Entertainment, Culture, Play, Shopping, Travel
- Buying gifts for friends and family can easily take up a whole day of your precious holiday time. Looking for just the right thing can be agonising and expensive. To take part of the pain away, try to do the following. write a list of who you need to buy thing ... » Continue Reading
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- Organic Aoyama
- September 27th, 2012Category: Food & Dining, Play, Shopping, Travel
- The outdoor Aoyama Farmer’s Market in Omotesando is a great place to buy organic fruit and vegetables from around the Kanto region. Every weekend on both Saturday and Sunday, there is a variety of prime produce brought in by local farmers. It is hugely popular and provi ... » Continue Reading
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- Yokohama and Steamed Dumplings
- September 26th, 2012Category: Food & Dining, Shopping, Travel
- Yokohama smelled good, like steamed dumplings and ramen. Of course, I was standing in the middle of Yokohama’s Chinatown, the largest in both Japan and Asia, so that might have had something to do with it. Located at Motomachi Chukagai station, it is about a forty-minut ... » Continue Reading
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- Yayoi Kusama: The Case of the Red & White Dots
- September 24th, 2012Category: Arts & Entertainment, Culture, Shopping
- Yayoi Kusama at the grand old age of 83 has made a monumental comeback via Louis Vuitton. The simple red and white dots are now the signature pattern of the formidable fashion house but to me provoke thoughts on what their significance is. Kusama says, “…a polka-do ... » Continue Reading
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- Beating the crowds during holiday season in Japan
- September 18th, 2012Category: Arts & Entertainment, Culture, Events, Shopping
- In the Japanese holiday seasons, it is near impossible to avoid crowds and travel can be expensive. Here are some hints on how to avoid costs and crowds and still have a great time. 1. If possible, book your train or airplane tickets so that you depart a day or ... » Continue Reading
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- Can You Put a Price on Love and Care?
- September 17th, 2012Category: Shopping
- Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead. Something out of this world is usually priceless. Its value surpasses the baseness of money. Love and care are things which come from the heart. Nurturi ... » Continue Reading
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- Tokyo Shoe Shops for Women with Big Feet
- September 13th, 2012Category: Shopping
- Finding shoes from size 6 UK size (39 European, 7 US) or 24.5cm is not too difficult in Tokyo despite preconceptions. I have found 13 shoe shops that stock from 24-27cm. Like clothes shops, your foot size can differ in each shoe shop so make sure you get a good fi ... » Continue Reading
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- Harajuku: Fashion Lovers’ Playground
- September 12th, 2012Category: Shopping
- Stepping off the platform at Harajuku station on the Yamanote line in Tokyo, I surveyed the chaos unfolding around me. Fashion-conscious Japanese girls with hair extensions, stilettos, and brightly-colored shopping bags pushed past me. A group of gothic lolitas ming ... » Continue Reading
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- Rebranding Japan with a new wave of products
- September 5th, 2012Category: Culture, Shopping
- Old craft houses and workshops in crumbling side streets are certainly far removed from the shiny modern images of Tokyo that the country likes to associate with its cool Japan branding campaigns. But it is the small, (usually) old family businesses that lie within th ... » Continue Reading
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- How to Make Power Stone Earrings
- August 3rd, 2012Category: Culture, Shopping
- SUMMER IS HERE!! It gets so hot here because of the high-humidity and all, but for the ladies out there, I want to note that wearing accessories kinda help us look all fresh and kool even during hot summer days.. and here is a little tip on how to make a pair of earrin ... » Continue Reading
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