Cherry blossom season in Japan really is nothing short of spectacular, and if you’re reading this article, you’re probably looking at how to make the most of your visit.  While no two seasons are the same, and it’s near impossible to predict exactly when and for how long the trees will bloom, the one thing that is […]

The Robot Restaurant in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district is a well oiled machine (like the pun?), jam packed with so much utter madness, you’ll be left wondering at the end if what you saw actually just happened.  The lasers, screaming, and heart pounding music are one thing….but then come the gorillas, tanks, hover boards, kung fu […]

Up until our visit to Cafe Baron just outside of Tokyo’s Shinjuku district, my encounters with owls have been next to nil, and I was super excited to be sipping some coffee with a few.  The plan was for us to go to this owl cafe, see some birds in a cage, take a few pictures, drink […]

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again.  There’s something about the Japanese women that causes me to have one giant girl crush on them.  It’s not really one thing in particular, but a hundred different things that come together to create a petite, pastel-colored, fringed with lace and tied in a beautiful bow package of Japanese […]

With the help of Google Translate to help us understand the Disney Crowd Calendar, we were absolutely frightened when we discovered that the only day we could visit Tokyo Disneyland was predicted to be “Violently Crowded”!  On an eight tiered scale that begins with “People Rattle” at less than 20 000 attendees, we couldn’t have picked a […]