8 Useful Tips to Enjoy Narita Airport!

8 Useful Tips to Enjoy Narita Airport

I suppose for most of us, airports are not places we can easily ‘enjoy’ as such, not with all those queues, delays, cancellations and steely-eyed security eyeing us suspiciously over the barrel of a submachine gun. Yet, as international airports go, Narita is surprisingly traveller-friendly, [Continue Reading…]

7 Amazing Technologies For Transportation in Japan!

7 Amazing Technologies For Transportation in Japan

Have you ever taken our great transportation system in Japan? We, Japanese take it for granted but there are so many technologies used –and they make our lives so comfortable. Here, I would like to introduce some of the Japanese Technologies! [Continue Reading…]

7 Tips You Should Know to Enjoy Karaoke in Japan!

7 Tips You Should Know to Enjoy Karaoke in Japan!

Have you ever been to Karaoke? Karaoke was invented in Japan and it has lately become very popular all over the world, so you can perhaps enjoy it in your country, too. I’m Japanese and today, I’ll introduce some tips to enjoy Karaoke in Japan! Why don’t you enjoy genuine Karaoke in Japan? [Continue Reading…]

7 Wonderful Functions of Japanese Toilet Seats!

7 Wonderful Functions of Japanese Toilet Seat!

We all have to go, don’t we.. to spend a penny now and then. Even we normally self-controlled Japanese have to do that! It wasn’t so very long ago that many of my foreign friends and colleagues were bemoaning the state of public lavatories in Japan… the dreaded slit toilet on a pedestal that can still be found in remote Japanese backwaters (no pun intended) and that only the most stoical Japanese do not resent having to use. [Continue Reading…]

7 Wonderful Ways to Enjoy Bullet Train “Shinkansen” in Japan

7 Wonderful Ways to Enjoy Bullet Train "Shinkansen" in Japan

( flickr By Takuma Kimura )

Since its birth, just in time for the ’64 Tokyo Olympics, the Bullet Train has not only become a widely recognised Japanese icon, but has had a profound impact on Japanese society and commercial life, enabling travel between the country’s main metropolitan centres to be reduced considerably. [Continue Reading…]