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Merry Christmas, and welcome to the second in our series of Harajuku and Shibuya Christmas picture posts for 2013! In this Christmas photo walk, we start where the Takeshita Dori Christmas pictures left off, at the intersection of Meiji Dori

New Year's Day is Fukubukuro sales time in Tokyo. That means shopping districts around the city are packed with people hoping for a chance to score a lucky bag from their favorite brand or store. From the glitz of Ginza

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

Here's a friendly Japanese girl with dolly kei-influenced fashion who we met at night on Meiji Dori between Harajuku and Shibuya. Coincidentally, we ran into this same girl near this location (over on Cat Street) a few months ago. Her

New Years is a really great time to be in Japan. Yes, most Japanese people leave the big cities to visit with their families and friends in their home towns. Yes, the first few hours of the year are usually

Christmas is almost here! That means it's time for our annual - and always late - Tokyo Holiday Pictures! This year, because of all of the cool X-mas events we covered (like the Kyary Pamyu Pamyu Christmas and Grimoire Dolly

As just about everyone on the planet knows by now, a major earthquake - officially known as the "Great Sendai Earthquake of 2011" - struck Japan on Friday, March 11th. The earthquake was quickly followed by a tsunami, which slammed

Winter 2011 has been pretty warm here in Tokyo, as you've probably noticed from our recent street snaps. On Valentine's Day, though, we finally got a bit of snow. It wasn't much compared to many places in the world, but

While out shooting pictures & video for our recent LaForet Grand Bazar article, we couldn't help but notice the blaring sirens of a large group of Japanese fire trucks zooming by. They were all stopping just down the street from

This stylish Japanese guy was photographed on Meiji Dori in Harajuku. He is wearing a colorful fruit-patterned vest over a long sleeve button up shirt with a bow tie and baggy jeans. His accessories include glasses, a leather shoulder bag,