When 60,000 attendees descend on Tokyo Big Sight April 27–29, the headline numbers are hard to ignore: 750 startup exhibitors ...

A U.S. version can capture part of the mood, though the full scale belongs to the real trip. Tokyo’s size, density, transit ...

Tokyo officials were overjoyed after the Japanese capital was named the world’s best large city in a leading U.S. travel magazine. Conde Nast Traveler’s 2024 reader survey, which excluded U.S. cities, ...

TOKYO -- A tram designed by Eiji Mitooka, known for Kyushu Railway Co.'s luxury sleeper train "Seven Stars in Kyushu," began ...

Municipal governments of Tokyo's central wards are taking a variety of measures to encourage foreign visitors to keep the yen flowing after the sun sets. The Tokyo metropolitan government is the ...

The 42-minute film captures his full performance for Spotify's Billions Club Live Series, along with exclusive interviews.

As most travelers know, Tokyo is huge. The city is urban sprawl at its most overwhelming, making finding the best places to eat, shop, see, let alone sleep, a downright chore. The city is broken up ...

In Tokyo, the birthplace of Japan’s popular Somei Yoshino cherry blossom variety, many of the trees planted during the country’s postwar advancement of the 1960s are now getting old and frail.

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 ...