East Japan Railway Co. suspended operations of the Yamanote Line and Keihin-Tohoku Line between Shinagawa and Higashi-Jujo stations from the first trains on May 23, affecting hundreds of thousands of ...
Tokyo is full of amazing accommodation options, from high-end luxury hotels to homey Airbnb experiences. It’s almost too hard ...
Our walk between Okachimachi and Nippori stations is full of surprises, including places like Diamond Avenue and Pearl Street in Okachimachi‘s southern and eastern districts. Forget New York’s Fifth ...
A recurring theme of the Yamanote Line is that the neighborhoods it passes through evolve in very different ways along the inner and outer sides of the railway loop. Such is the case in Shinbashi. The ...
"A new station? That would be good news," says a 50-ish housewife living in Tokyo's Minato Ward. "Right now, it takes me about 20 minutes to walk from Tamachi to Shinagawa. I heard more elite ...
Amid a boom in small theater groups in 1980s Tokyo, the Waseda University campus emerged as the epicenter for companies that would go on to become established in the theater scene. The Yamanote ...