Super Potato is one of those names that comes up almost immediately when you start looking for retro games in Tokyo. Usually, people mean the famous Akihabara shop. That’s understandable. The Akihabara branch is larger, spread across multiple floors and has become an attraction in its own right. But Super Potato also has a store … Read more
There’s a point during almost every Tokyo Disney trip when IKSPIARI suddenly becomes useful. Maybe you’ve arrived at Maihama hours before your hotel room is ready. Maybe everyone wants dinner but you don’t want another theme-park meal. Maybe you’re staying around Tokyo Disney Resort but don’t have a park ticket that day. Or perhaps you’ve … Read more
Tokyo has Disney resorts, observation decks, digital-art museums and enormous arcades. Joypolis doesn’t quite fit into any of those categories. It’s a three-floor indoor amusement park in Odaiba where a roller coaster runs through a building, two people can compete on a giant spinning halfpipe, Sonic has his own physical challenge, and attractions based on … Read more
Tokyo has vending machines everywhere. Most aren’t particularly interesting. They sell water, canned coffee, sports drinks and the occasional hot corn soup. After a few days in Japan, you’ll probably walk past them without looking. Then you find one making a bowl of hot ramen. Or selling fresh cream in a can. Or dispensing frozen … Read more
Tokyo National Museum is usually winding down as evening arrives. Its garden normally closes at 5pm, and most visitors are already heading back towards Ueno Station. For seven weeks this autumn, that changes. From October 14 to December 6, 2026, the museum garden will reopen after dark for ZEN NIGHT TOKYO, a nighttime experience combining … Read more
Tokyo is getting another anime experience in October, but this one is difficult to put into the usual categories. Animmersive Live: LAYRA inspired by BELLE isn’t an exhibition, movie screening or conventional stage musical. Instead, it takes the virtual world of Mamoru Hosoda’s anime film BELLE and attempts to turn it into a real live … Read more
Eating sushi in Tokyo isn’t difficult. Eating an elaborate sushi-kaiseki dinner inside one of Japan’s most important museums after the galleries have closed is a little different. Sushi Kaiseki Okuno (鮨会席 おく乃) opened on September 30, 2026 inside the Gallery of Horyuji Treasures at the Tokyo National Museum in Ueno. It’s small, just eight counter … Read more
Tokyo has sushi restaurants everywhere. It also has plenty of sightseeing buses. Someone has now decided to combine the two. The new SUSHI BUS Tokyo is a double-decker sightseeing bus fitted with a working conveyor-belt sushi lane on the upper deck. Passengers eat unlimited sushi while the bus travels through central Tokyo, turning what would … Read more
Ordering drinks in Japan is much easier than it can seem before your first visit. You don’t need to speak fluent Japanese or memorise complicated sentences. In most bars, restaurants and izakayas, a few simple phrases — combined with pointing at the menu when needed — are enough to order confidently. If you only learn … Read more
Tokyo has a reputation for expensive cocktails and tiny bars with mysterious cover charges, but drinking in the city doesn’t have to be expensive. Some of the easiest ways to find cheap drinks in Tokyo are surprisingly simple: standing bars, casual izakaya chains, yakitori restaurants, early-evening drinking spots and neighbourhoods where you can combine inexpensive … Read more