With Golden Week coming to an end in Japan, today is one of the special day’s in Japan called Children’s Day (also known as Boy’s Day).

Earlier today I went to the Houjyou Godai Matsuri in Odawara, which was pretty awesome!

The Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History (神奈川県立生命) is a pretty neat museum just outside of Odawara (小田原市, around 30 minutes, nearly 2 hours from Tokyo).

An awesome video and website featuring everyday sounds from Tokyo and a 3d landscape showing Tokyo. To celebrate 10 years of Roppongi Hills? A 3D projection mapping of a miniature model of the city of Tokyo at a 1:1000 scale can be found at Tokyo City Symphony. The website allows you to compose your own song, and it looks stunning as well. As you can see, the keyboard is used to write your own piece..which [...]

Pepsi in Japan comes in many weird sizes and flavours, which is why I thought I would write about Pepsi. When I lived back in Odawara, I was unable to find any at first as Pepsi are trying to push their product called “Pepsi Nex”. I then found these cans in some vending machines, which are twice the size of cans back home! The cans cost between 100円 – 120円. and then in a 100円 [...]

Earlier this year I experienced the beautiful plum blossom views in Odawara with the mountains in the background. I lived literally 30 minutes walk from an area with many plum trees, which Odawara is famous for.

ようこそOKINJAPANエピソ-ド五 Welcome to Episode 5 of OKINJAPAN…

I saw a while ago the weird advert featuring Orlando Bloom expressing his love for Takoyaki.

The latest video from the hugely successful PSY.

I saw this advert on my TV the other day, for Pure Gummy..featuring Perfume!

A great outdoor advertising example by Sprite Japan, which almost looks fake in the videos. The advert features a 6m tall Splash Vending Machine, where random people (actors?0 pressed the button and then in return they were splashed.