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 are plenty of places in Akihabara where you can buy an old Game Boy. MOD TOKYO lets you take one apart. For around two hours, you’re given a genuine vintage Nintendo handheld, a set of tools and a choice of replacement parts. You open the console, remove the old hardware, choose a new shell … Read more
Tokyo has plenty of attractions that cost thousands of yen. The Tokyo Metro Museum costs ¥220. That price makes it easy to underestimate. Hidden beneath the elevated railway tracks at Kasai Station, the museum takes something most visitors use every day in Tokyo—the subway—and shows you what is actually happening behind the station gates. There … 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
If Sailor Moon was part of your childhood, Tokyo now has something considerably more interesting than another character shop. Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon -Shining Theater Shinagawa Tokyo- is a permanent-style theatrical experience inside Shinagawa Prince Hotel, combining an original Sailor Moon story with live performances, music, costumes, character greetings, themed drinks and merchandise. It opened … Read more