Christmas is a wonderful time of year - full of friendship and family, showing appreciation to your loved ones, and a chance to reflect on the year that's soon to end. It's also something else, though - an excuse to

Merry Christmas from Tokyo and welcome to our third holiday photo walk of 2012! This walk follows our walks around Aoyama & Omotesando and Takeshita Dori in Harajuku. Even though we covered part of Harajuku in the second walk, there

Christmas is very near, so we're posting Tokyo Christmas pictures as fast as we can! In this second installment of our annual Tokyo holiday photo walks, we'll be hitting Harajuku. Harajuku is too big for us to post it all

Christmas is only days away, and that means that Tokyo is buzzing with holiday cheer. Even though New Years is the big-big holiday in Japan, Christmas is a major event as well. Most of the shops have some kind of

The popular Japanese visual kei band Versailles (aka Versailles Philharmonic Quintet) played the final show of their "Chateau de Versailles" tour at NHK Hall in Tokyo this week. But the concert on December 20th 2012 was much more than just

This weekend, the All Night Nippon Radio Program hosted a big concert in Harajuku featuring Gackt, Momoiro Clover Z, Golden Bomber, Man With A Mission, and Miwa. The "All Live Nippon" concert was held at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium. The

Japan's reputation as the street fashion capitol of the world can be traced directly to two specific Tokyo neighborhoods - Harajuku and Shibuya. Harajuku's "kawaii" fashion scene has experienced a major boom recently as a result of Kyary Pamyu Pamyu's

Alice Black is an independent Japanese accessory brand specializing in punk-inspired silver jewelry. Alice Black jewelry is extremely popular in Tokyo's eclectic street fashion scene, as illustrated by Hirari Ikeda's appearance in last season's campaign photos. We see people wearing

On November 13th, hyper-popular K-Pop group Girls' Generation held a special meet-and-greet and mini-concert at Yoyogi Stadium in Tokyo. The "Playing with Girls' Generation" event drew nearly 10,000 Girls' Generation fans to Harajuku. As we've done with many other Tokyo

What's a Harajuku kid who really loves Halloween to do after October 31st has come and gone? How about throwing a Halloween-themed post-Halloween? That's exactly what Ray Ochiai - the mad genius behind the Heavy Pop parties - did last