Tokyo Japan Life Tips

Beneficial, profitable and practical information for Tokyo/Japan life in English for the English-speaking people living and visiting Tokyo and even people who just want to know about Tokyo/Japan anywhere in the world

I've lived in Tokyo now for 18 years since I got back from US.
I went to college in the States about 20 years ago, and when I remember back, what I needed the most was the information.
The only information source for me at that time when internet was not in people's life was just friends.
But now, here we are, in the world we can access to whatever we want to know only if you have a computer or phone.
So, I decided to write about Tokyo life and what I think about living, visiting, enjoying, working, and even raising kids in Japan.

Do you know the store named "Seijo ISHII"?They sell high quality groceries at relatively high prices since 1927.They opened their first store at Seijo, Setagaya-ward, where has been supposed to be one of the typical high status residential areas in Tok ...

It might be a matter of familiarity, but I always think that Japanese snacks are better than those from other countries.I haven't tried them from all over the world, yet.But, I still believe that Japanese snack are better than those from most of the co ...

Do you like Tofu, soybean curd?We Japanese make lots of food from soy beans, so you might be sick and tired of soy beans.But as you know, Tofu is a very healthy food with low calorie and high plant protein.To eat Tofu, there are so many kinds of Tofu d ...

Do you cook any Japanese food at home?If you live in Japan, it's probably easier for you to find Japanese food ingredients than the ingredients of your home country food.So, at least once in a while, I want you to cook some Japanese food at home and I ...

I want to write about the hair cream I've been using in Japan.My hair is very thick and dry all the time.It also has some unruly wave.So, I have to carefully choose my hair care items to make it look neat enough.I use this hair cream after I wash my ha ...

Addition to the wooden car puzzle toy, here is another 100yen toy my son loves.He loves soap bubble, but he cannot blow them well.He once sucked up the soap instead by accident, and since then he is a little scared to blow bubbles.One day we were playi ...

Do you eat raw oyster?We do eat raw oyster in Japan.I mainly eat raw ones at restaurant, but there are stores selling oysters to be eaten raw everywhere in Tokyo.What I cook with oyster at home the most often is oyster NABE.NABE means pot in Japanese.I ...

My sister lives in the US for 15 years.And everytime she comes back to Japan and eat some kind of bread here, she says "Japanese bread is like rice cake!".Rice cake is "mochi" in Japanese and it's our traditional and popular food, which is eaten a lot ...

This winter in Tokyo is relatively warm.I was wearing my gloves and scarf more often last winter, but I hardly take them out from my closet this year.But, it does get a little cold in the morning and evening.So, we bought a pair of gloves for my son at ...

As I wrote here, the current #4 biggest convenience store chain, Circle K Sunkus has been taken over by Family Mart and all their stores will be re-branded to Family Mart within 2016.So, there will be no Circle K Sunkus stores anymore.And I'm one of th ...

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