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 A Butterfly Waltz in OkazakiIt can be tricky making your own soufflé. First you have to make custard from scratch, and then you need to ensure the egg white meringue is fluffy and not over folded. After that you need to ensure the oven heat is just right, so it slowly rises, but not...

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Enjoy Japan's Four Seasons In This Comprehensive Park
Kawaguchi Green Center was selected as one of the top 100 urban parks in Japan.　Kawaguchi City is known for its abundant greenery and cultivation of plants within the city. 
 
In addition to being considered a spiritual place, yo...

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The Resort's Food Is Fresh And Fantastic
Travelers to Naqua's Epinard Nasu onsen resort in the mountains of northern Tochigi are spoiled for choice when it comes to assuaging their appetites. The hotel complex boasts four restaurants, each with its own distinctive cuisine but all ded...

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Love Me Do
Hidden in the small, winding streets of Harajuku, Love Me Do is a great little hair salon near Meiji Jingu Crossing. One of th stylists of Love Me Do is Kanji Tanaka, who has been styling hair for the past sixteen years, starting at a salon called Elrhodes in Seibu Departm...

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Cupcakes à la Harajuku
 
Magnolia Bakery is known as a flagship brand to those who've embraced the vogue for cupcakes, which is still growing nowadays. From real life soaps about cupcake stores to competitive bakery shows, cupcakes and their friends are everywhere.
 
In 1996 the firs...

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Coffee Lives Up To The Hype at Aoyama Location
A sign with a small bright-cerulean-blue bottle on it and an arrow pointing up a staircase. No name plate. Just a sign that could be easily missed. And that's probably the way Blue Bottle Coffee wants it. 
As we walk up the unimpressive ...

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Okinawa's First And Possibly Best Taco Restaurant
There is good reason to crave tacos and taco rice when in Okinawa. The latter, which consists of taco flavored ground beef spread on a bed of rice and topped with shredded lettuce, diced tomatoes and cheese, was conceived on this isla...

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Hiroshima-style Okonomiyaki in Shibuya
To anyone familiar with the Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki circuit, from Micchan to Okonomimura, you'll know nothing beats this famous food, particularly not the Kansai alternative (okay, I admit that may be up for debate). However, step outside ...

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Exquisite Pottery & More In a Traditional Setting
Most people travel to Mashiko to visit its famous pottery festival and/or to shop for Mashiko-ware along its main street. However, to gain a greater appreciation of what you are purchasing, a visit to the Mashiko Sankokan Museum is a ...

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Remember Makoto Azuma? He’s the flower artist who launched bonsai into space.
Now Azuma has got together with Fendi to create a unique flower shop inside the brand’s Ginza store.
 
Open until April 17th, the mini florist’s is based out of a customized Piaggio Ape, an Italian scoote...

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