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Preparations Switch Up A Gear For This New Venue In Uji, Kyoto
In Nintendo's recent financial earnings report released in May 2024, the company confirmed the Nintendo Museum will finally be opening this autumn in Kyoto's Uji City.
Originally scheduled to open by the end of Spring 202...

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Summer Fun At The Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum
Venue: Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum When: Aug 5th - Aug 6th 2023
The Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum is a captivating outdoor venue which showcases preserved and relocated buildings from the Edo to early Sho...

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Interactive, poop-themed fun ?
Venue: BOSS E · ZO FUKUOKA When: Mar 4th - Sep 3rd 2023
 
The Unko Museum concept was originally born in 2019, and took various cities including Tokyo, Yokohama, and Hiroshima by storm.
The event is making a return visit to Fukuoka from this March, an...

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Approximately 23,000 Sparkling Lights To Enjoy
Venue: Yokohama Bay Quarter When: Nov 5th - Dec 25th 2022
Running for an impressive 17 years now, the Yokohama Bay Quarter Christmas Forest event brings approximately 23,000 sparkling lights to the grounds of this popular mall.
A real 8 ...

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A Seasonal Projection Mapping Display In Tokyo
 
Venue: Shinagawa Aquarium When: Nov 3rd - Dec 25th 2022
To welcome in the festive season, Tokyo's Shinagawa Aquarium is hosting a seasonal event in collaboration with the popular digital art collective Naked.
The Naked Star Aquarium is...

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Visit This Yokocho For Showa-Era Pubs And More
When you get off at Oimachi Station in Shinagawa, one of the first things you will notice are the department stores and shops you are used to—but if you walk 30 seconds from the station, you will encounter a place where you have slippe...

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A Must-Go For All Chocolate Lovers
Karuizawa Chocolate Factory was opened in 2012 under this name, but then changed to Bon Okawa. However, most people still refer to the shop with the name it was given first.
It has always been run by Tokyo Rusk which is, as indicated by its name, a ...

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A Piedmont Villa in the skies of Tomamu
For people visiting from warmer climes, it is not often you get to see a near horizontal snowstorm whilst dining from a sky-high observatory.
Well, the great thing about Risonare Tomamu is that there are two such places, being Sora and Otto Set...

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Alishan Cafe's red barn is an iconic building ideally located a short distance from the foot of Mt. Hiwada.
The building also marks one of the access points to Kinchakuda, a purse shaped field outlined by the winding Koma River. To vegans and vegetarians in Japan, Alishan is a trus...

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Tokyo's Only Entrant On Japan's Top 100 Waterfalls List
There are over 500 named waterfalls in Japan, and of those, 100 have been compiled on a list by the Ministry of the Environment as the best in the country. Tokyo has one sole entrant in that Top 100 list – Hossawa Falls, located...

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