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It’s a well documented fact that Japan is probably one of the weirdest places on earth with its 24-hours jeans stores, flameless candles and restaurants that serve raw chicken but that doesn’t really even scratch the surface. I mean, just wait til I get around to explaining Akihabara. I’ve got much more to [...]

Generic brands here in North America are done with a sort of emphasis on cost cutting rather than quality and aesthetics. In Japan, however, label-less clothes, furniture, food and everyday products have a sort of zen stylishness. One of my favorite stores in Tokyo is epitomous with this minimalistic chic. Muji, which [...]

Some of you regular readers of my blog have been wondering how I could possibly afford to eat at all these great restaurants for three months in Japan. Well, it’s not like I did everyday. As much as I would like to, you can’t eat grade A5 steak or world class sushi everyday [...]

Some of you might be wondering why on earth anyone would eat anything that could potentially kill them. Granted the chance of dying from eating Fugu is incredibly small but…c’mon, chicken won’t kill you, why not just eat chicken? Well, why would you drive a F1 car rather than a Corolla? Why [...]

Like with Steak House Satou, I first heard of Izuei Honten from Paul’s travel blog. He posted pictures of the Osaka-style unagi (eel) he had in…Osaka that looked so good, I was this close to licking the screen. Unfortunately, I didn’t have time (or money) to head to Osaka during my Japan [...]