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Forget Maids: Try a Swallowtail Butler Café!

Swallowtail is every bit a classy restaurant that sells the whole “butler/master” fantasy.

Giant Mech Buildings Advertise Real Estate

Buildings transform into giant robots in Mitsui Real Estate Residential’s stunning anime commercial.

Getting Started with Maid Cafés

Maid cafés have been around since the early 2000s, but if it’s your first time, you may want to know what’s in store before heading over.

4 Soothing Onsen Day Trips from Tokyo

While these Kanagawa onsen and their surrounds are certainly worth an overnight stay, each can work equally as well as a day trip.

5 Awesome Third-Wave Coffee Shops in Tokyo

Move over Starbucks and Tully’s, a new wave of coffee is beginning to surge in Japan.

The Café where Maids Pretend to Be Your Spouse

Their mission is simple: to make you want to come “home” to them every night.

5 Things Every Gamer Needs to Do in Tokyo

When IGN offers up its best picks, it's time to listen.

Cool Portraits of Tsukiji Fish Market Workers

As Tsukiji prepares to relocate, French photographer Nico Therin took the opportunity to capture some intimate images.

6 Super Sites for Coffee Seekers

If you’re looking for something specific for your next cup of joe, these sites offer a broad selection both in Tokyo and across the country.

Seeking Ground Perfection in Shimokitazawa

Café Use is a coffee shop for coffee purists.

Sip Around Shibuya at these 4 Fun Cafés

With its vast number of pubs, bars and nightclubs, it may be easy to bypass some of the excellent cafés to be found in Shibuya.

10 Tokyo Cafés Your Date Will Love

Here's the goods on date-worthy cafés in some of Tokyo's trendiest neighborhoods.

Tokyo to Mount Fuji Bicycle Tour

If climbing this enormous volcano isn’t for you, why not bike around it instead?

Hiratsuka Terraced Rice Field

Located 90 minutes from Tokyo by car, Hiratsuka Tanada grows rice with only rain water, without any other means of irrigation.

A Hypnotic Tour through January in Japan

The urban jungles of Tokyo and historic temples of Kyoto all look gorgeous in January.

Clean-Aired Cafés: 5 Super Smoke-Free Chains!

Smoke-free sipping may not be Japan-standard just yet, but now you can at least enjoy your coffee in clean air at a few more non-Starbucks chains almost anywhere in the country!

5 Tokyo Cafés That Give You an Instant Getaway

Stuck in the city? These transporting cafés will make you feel like you’ve left it all behind!

7 Great Cafés in Kamakura

One of Japan's former capital cities has a great café scene.

Neco Republic: A Cat Café for Rescue Cats

We wanted to know more about Neco Republic and their plan to save Japan’s homeless cats, so we stopped by the new Tokyo location and sat down with the branch manager.

Onsen Date in Tokyo

I get that “onsen dates” are kind of weird, but my husband and I love them.

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