A wonderland of shops and malls touting everything from clothes and accessories to locavorean goods pretty much sums up Tokyo for the commerce-driven crowds that descend upon the city from all over ...

Tokyo is a futuristic and traditional city that mixes the vintage and the new, and is one of the most thrilling places on the ...

Visiting Tokyo for the first time can feel like stepping into the future and the past at once. This vast, ever-shifting metropolis is all about contrasts: centuries-old shrines tucked beside glass ...

Here's a one-day guide to exploring Shibamata in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward. Experience a slower side to one of the world's ...

Yukari Sakamoto is the author of Food Sake Tokyo and offers guided tours to markets in Tokyo. She is a graduate of the French Culinary Institute, a sommelier, and a shochu advisor. To experience ...

In 1946, anthropologist Ruth Benedict published The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture. The American government had tapped her as a researcher during World War II to help better ...

Tokyo deals in specifics, not generalities. This isn't a city that reveals itself in sweeping panoramas but in momentary glimpses: the businessman who carries a Hello Kitty handkerchief, the ancient ...

In his pop-up store in New York City, which ran from September to December, designer Hiroki Nakamura sat down on a sofa with oatmeal-hued cushions in front of a matching black walnut wood coffee table ...