Cheapo Weekend for May 25/26: Okinawa Fes, Fake Fireflies and a Harbour Festival
Over at Tokyo Big Sight there is a Hawaiian festival that costs 1,000 yen to get through the door just so you can spend more of your money. [...]
Over at Tokyo Big Sight there is a Hawaiian festival that costs 1,000 yen to get through the door just so you can spend more of your money. [...]
Tokyo parks get crowded. On weekends (especially if you have more than one small child) your kids will run off and disappear like ninjas on a moonless night. [...]
Nestled in the mountains of Saitama, a prefecture famous for having “nothing,” is a whimsical park for children. However, unlike most parks in Japan, the Akeba no Kodomo [...]
A controversial topic amongst cheapos, where is the best place to live in Tokyo? Following on from our two posts on the topic, Chris and Greg dig into [...]
Asking locals in Tokyo for advice on a good, affordable place to live in Tokyo is usually an exercise in futility. Tokyo is so damn big that people can [...]
From the 17th to the 19th another one of the “big three” festivals will be on – the Sanja Matsuri (link in Japanese). This is one of the rowdier [...]
Tokyo is characteristically small. Apartments are not known for being spacious with ample storage space, to say the least. Most likely, if you are living in Tokyo for [...]
The beauty of Brimmer Beer Box is its simplicity. They serve quality beer in a box for a good price. They don’t sell pizzas, just locally brewed craft [...]
One of Tokyo’s three major festivals takes places over this weekend – the Kanda Matsuri. Based in and around Kanda Myojin Shrine near Ochanomizu Station, the Kanda Matsuri is [...]
The impression that Tokyo is a pricey town to live in is an old trope, but unfortunately it isn’t far off from the truth. Otherwise you wouldn’t be [...]