fake food

You find it everywhere in Japan from Sapporo to Okinawa sitting in restauarant windows and never go bad. The food replicas are supposed to boost Japanese appetite, for foreigners are guarantee that they wont starve to death not being able to read the menu. Here in fake food mekka in Kappabashi, Tokyo.

what fuels Japan

a drug to the masses of all night office salaryman, students, truck drivers and alike. a hyper caffeine energy drinks which drove Japan to its economic success. the one on the photo shows a character whose unique feature is constant erection. who wouldn't like to try that?

maid cafe

poster advertising maid cafe in Akiba (district of cosplayers) where the service staff dress as maids. Compared with regular cafes, maid cafes try to creat the world where client is a masters rather than mere customer. That's why when entering maid cafe we will be welcomed with an extraordinarily humble greeting and our drinks will be served by kneeling maids. On the menu besides the drinks one can find ear cleaning, hand and foot massage, photo session with the maids posing the way the customer wants, playing video game with favourite maid and more. Very recently there has been the first maid cafe outside Japan opened in San Francisco.

Tsukiji fish market

one of top 10 in Tokyo. Place that gives a preview what to expect on your plate.

capsule hotel

another 'only in Japan' are capsule hotels found mostly next to the railway stations for those who missed the last train home. majority of guests are salarymen who lingered too long at the company obligatory party, got too drunk and did not make it on time. apart from the tiny place to sleep they can get shower, fresh shirt, socks and tie.

kawaii hon

in Japan everything is kawaii (cute). Even the books! Most of them come in the same pocket size and fit the unified book cover available in each stationary or bookshop. here people do not like others to know what they read ..

pop culture, sex culture

hentai manga is one of these things Japan is famous for .. often seen in hands of men sitting in the metro. each and every convenient store has a wide selection of them for daily commuters.

otaku

found on the 'hobby' shelf in one of the store in Nakano otaku paradise.

matchy matchy

customer welcoming board in Osaka red light district

a must have for each traveller in Japan..

.. bento box - a state-of-art single-portion takeout or home-packed meal. here Makunouchi (幕の内Makunouchi) bento which consists of fish, meat, pickles, eggs, vegetables and rice. there are contest for the most aesthetically arrangements of bento. only in Japan!

Fuji-san

Sunrise on the highest mountain in Japan - Fuji-san.
However to see it from the top one has to stand in couple of hours queue !

here I am

Here I am a blue hair girl in Japan, the country that still has not decided on its Japanese name. And thus sometimes it would be Nihon and yet another time Nippon.