Minami-Oi, Tokyo: history and charm

This area of Tokyo is part of the Shinagawa ward and has a great deal of charm as well as an interesting history.

Within easy reach of the Omori and Oimachi JR stations, and Omorikaigan and Tachiaigawa on the Keikyu Line, Minami-oi is centrally placed yet still has some quiet neighbourhood charm. Read more

Finding information in English about Japanese shops

One of the things that has always struck me is the difficulty of finding English language info about shops and services in Tokyo and across Japan.  We have shops we like and we will be writing about them here to make it easier for you foreign residents and tourists to find something they might be looking for. Or, to steer them at interesting things we have found.

But, if you have a shop or you sell a service and you want to reach out to people in English, why not contact us? We will come and take photos and make an article about your shop, your product or your service. It will cost you something of course, like any advert. But our article will be richer than any banner advert; there will be a photo, informative text, contact information and links to your homepage if you have one.

If you don’t have a homepage, why not have one with Japanorama.co.uk? Your advert can be your homepage. For a little extra cost we can design it to look exactly like your business.

Drop us a line using our contact form for more details.

Thanks.

The Windsor Hotel, Hokkaido: G8 Summit Venue

James Bond film location or posh hotel? In July of 2008 the heads of the G8 nations and their entourage will descend upon Toya in South Western Hokkaido for their annual get-together. Approaching the Windsor Hotel there, the venue for the Summit, it is easy to understand why it was chosen.

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The Tokaido Road, Shinagawa

In the Edo period, Shinagawa was the first post town a traveler would reach after setting out from Nihombashi on the Tokaido highway [Kyu-tokaido] from Edo to Kyoto. Japanorama’s editor, Alfie Goodrich, has begun a photo-documentary of the area. Read more