Tokyo and Japan guide, news, travel information
For many foreigners, Japan’s favorite casino game is Mahjong, the team-based game that involves matching a hand of 14 tiles. The game is widely featured in anime and Japanese storybooks, hence why it’s also famous in Western countries. But when you think about it, many Japanese gamblers don’t limit themselves to Mahjong. They love pachinko,…
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Japan has some of the strictest anti-gambling laws in the world. Yet, it has an enormous Pachinko industry estimated to be worth 20 trillion Japanese yen. Japanese gamblers also tend to gamble online, but mainly through offshore casinos located in Europe and the UK. Last year, the online casino industry in Japan experienced a tremendous…
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Pachinko is a gambling game, a kind of pinball, but requires no skill : just hold your hand and watch the winnings or losses. Pachinko machines can be found in pachinko parlors which are spread over Tokyo, but also in the whole Japan. You can recognize parlors easily because they are bright and colorful. Inside a…
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Odaiba is a large artificial island in Tokyo Bay. Originally constructed during the Edo period as a fortress, the once derelict site has been under redevelopment since the mid 1980s. Today the area is Tokyo’s playground where locals go to walk a dog for an hour, walk in date place or get married at Daiba love…
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Ikebukuro is large and popular shopping and entertainment district in Tokyo’s Toshima ward, north west of the central Tokyo. Ikebukuro is best known for its great shopping and huge department stores and including the massive Sunshine City Shopping Centre. Ikebukuro is also home to auto giant Toyota’s Interactive showroom known as Toyota Amlux, which is…
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Golden Gai is truly a magical place, located in Kabuki-cho, the Shinjuku district that never sleeps in Tokyo. Golden Gai doesn’t contain any grand buildings or monuments, but is simply a tiny fragment of old Tokyo that has miraculously survived : this is an area with about 200 small bar that accommodate five to ten customers each. This…
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Tokyo is a treasure that contains pretty much everything. And the city continues to change, it often happens that within a couple of years a whole neighborhood changes the face, knocking down and rebuilding new buildings, businesses and more. It is a big city, with a lot of green, very modern, but contains also a lot of ancient buildings and…
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The Onsen in Japan are spa where you can receive treatments based on water coming from volcanic underground. The land of Japan sits right on a volcanic belt and this geographic characteristic allows many volcanic hot springs to emerge out from its earth. It is said that there are over 3,000 hot spring locations nationwide. Since…
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Akihabara, also known as the “Electric Town”, is the biggest electronics shop district in the world and one of the most important japanese pop culture springs. Akihabara gained some fame through being home to one of the first stores devoted to personal robots and robotics. Located near Tokyo Station, in Akihabara you can find gadget, technology, anime, video games,…
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Akasaka is a residential and commercial district of Minato-Tokyo, located west of the government center in Nagatachō and north of the Roppongi nightlife district. Akasaka is appealing more for the high concentration of luxury hotels than for any tourist attractions that are worthy of note. But if it happens to go here, you will certainly find some place of…
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