Discover seven creepy unsolved mysteries in Japan, from brutal murders to eerie disappearances. These chilling cold cases ...

Tokyo’s largest entertainment district isn’t for the fainthearted, but will smack the gob of the inquisitive. It’s a place you’d think you’d see only in sci-fi movies: glittering futuristic buildings ...

A sealed 1930s subway platform beneath Shimbashi Station still holds traces of what the capital looked like before the war.

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Between grilled meat and gay manga, Daigo Matsui’s latest is a darkly funny tale of friendship, fantasy and female loneliness.

Ahead, our guide to the best hotels in Tokyo. The business district of Otemachi might not be the first location that would come to mind for a ryokan (traditional Japanese inn), but you won’t find a ...

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A video uploaded by Oriental Pearl suggesting Japan is going downhill received criticism from fellow YouTuber Abroad in Japan ...

Their style was Visual Rock - an in-your-face attitude that combined flamboyant dressing and an angry sound that rejected the cookie-cutter principles of Japanese society. The group, which sold ...

Writer Adam H. Graham tries out a new coastal trail that is helping reinvigorate the communities devastated by the 2011 Great ...

Established in 1903 as Tokyo’s first Western-style park, Hibiya Park is one of the best spots in the city centre to admire ...