Tag: Holidays

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

Welcome to our first Christmas Photo Walk of 2010. This time, we're going to walk around a little Tokyo neighborhood you may have heard of called Shinjuku. Wikipedia says that over 3.5 million people transit through Shinjuku Station every day

New Year's Day is a day when many - maybe most - of us think of sleeping in to recover from the hard partying that we did the night before. But, in Tokyo, it's also a big shopping day. Some

Christmas 2009 has passed us by - and now we've all moved onto celebrating the New Year - but that won't stop us from posting the last of our Tokyo Christmas 2009 photo walks. The final walk is in a

Christmas is only hours away! That means we must hurry up and post the rest of our Tokyo Christmas 2009 photo walks. We still have to cover Omotesando and Aoyama to complete the neighborhoods around Harajuku. Looks like won't finish

Welcome to another in our series of Tokyo Christmas 2009 photo walks. The basic idea is that we walk you around Tokyo, shooting pictures and explaining where we are and what we're seeing as we go. In the last walk

The end of 2009 is getting really close now, so it's time for us to post more Tokyo holiday pictures. For this edition of our ongoing Holiday 2009 Photo Walk series, we'll take a cruise around Harajuku. Harajuku isn't huge,

Welcome to the second in our ongoing series of Tokyo Christmas 2009 photo walks. In this edition, we take a quick stroll down one of the most famous shopping streets in Harajuku - Takeshita Dori (or Takeshita Street if you

The end of the year holidays - which, in Japan, mostly means New Years and Christmas - are quickly approaching. Now that we're into December, Christmas decorations and lights are quickly appearing all over Tokyo. The local government of each