Category Archives: Others

How Far Can We Go Under the Tokyo Station?

Image by The Tetsudo Kaikan   Being in the rainy season, we really appreciate underground passageways because they connect stations, buildings, and complexes, so we can walk from place to…

How to Keep Your Plastic Umbrellas from Being Stolen

  The rainy season has come in Japan. We can’t part with umbrellas. Sometimes we buy plastic umbrellas to protect against unexpected rain at convenience stores, supermarkets, and from vending…

What is Lone Metal Slime Girls “Hagure Metal Joshi” ?

Some women are good at dodging men’s advances. When they start to sense romance after going out together several times, they turn down the men. Those women are called “Hagure…

Azurer: Azuki Red Bean Beards are Proof of Love

Look at these photos below. People are wearing something strange on their chins (@_@)! Are they cosplayers copying some kind of manga characters? No, actually those beard-ish things are made…

Japanese Hanayome-Tokei : Bride Clock

Last year, JAPAN Style made a post about an online digital clock service called “Bijin Tokei” and “Binan Tokei”.  In Japanese, bijin is “beautiful woman”,  binan is “handsome man”, and tokei…

Illusory Underground Water Channel Near Tokyo

The Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel is the world largest flood alleviation establishment in Kasukabe, Saitama. Completed building in June 2006, it discharges water into the Edo River during…

Slope Like a Pinball

Let me introduce a Japanese entertainment website that I check often. The topic is ‘a Slope’ in Odaiba, Tokyo.   I would get very tired after walking through the slope….

Guide For Ambulance Services

  Have you ever called an ambulance? And in what situation did you call? Recently in Japan, the number of ambulance calls has been increasing. But why? Are more people…

What is a Pudding Badge?

Let me introduce a blog post from my favorite entertainment blog site as usual. The topic is about ‘puddings’.   Can you guess what they are? They are budges made…

The Strongest “Janken” Robot

Are you good at rock-scissors-paper? Well, I’m not (^^;; Some people who are really good at it seem to be able to anticipate their opponent’s movement. So envious!    …

Classy Taxies Wearing Hakata-ori Textile Run in Fukuoka

In Fukuoka prefecture, you can find gorgeous black taxies designed Hakata-ori Textile, a famous, traditional art craft in Fukuoka.     Against the shiny black body, striped pattern called Kenjo…

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