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Shibuya

Street Interview

Lots of people out again this weekend. I passed by this group conducting street interviews for some tv program. It is surprising how many shows get out…

Trains & Transport

Ikoma Cable Car

Only a few years after trains first starting running in Japan back in the late 1800's, and when it still took about 12 hours to travel from Tokyo to…

Marketing

Fuji TV vending machine

This vending machine is located at the Kokusai Tenjijo Station at Odaiba, which is the nearby station for Fuji TV. They have a panel of TV screens set up…

Culture

Gundam Odaiba

I had heard that the Gundam model was almost finished and had some requests for photos

Characters

Rilakkuma at golf

Just catching up now on the photos from the golfing trip last week with Rilakkuma. The weather was not bad, the score not the greatest, but Rilakkuma came…

Food & Drink

Yamanote Train Green Tea

You don't normally associate the Yamanote train line with green tea, but from April 20th, this year, Mokku company have been selling their unique product…

Conbini Monday

Conbini Monday Wk7

Rilakkuma did the shopping this week for Conbini Monday, and I can warn you now, he went wild!! Trendy Magazine, in their latest July 2009 edition, are…

Shibuya

Shibuya afternoon

Great weather today and the crowds were out in Shibuya. As well as the many couples, tourists and others, the Hot Pepper mascot was out and about…

Marketing

Site Review, May 2009

To help make the site better for all visitors, I have published below some visitor traffic numbers for the site shibuya246.com. Currently, the site is…

Shopping

Battle Underwear

Following from the success of Capcom's video game 戦国BASARA, Battle Heroes, (selling over 1,400,000 units) a number of goods and services related to…

Living in Japan

Classic Mercedes

Found this classic Mercedes car on the street yesterday. I asked the owner if he would let me take a picture. He was kind enough to say yes, but I didn't…

Trains & Transport

Japan Railways

While out the other day at Ikspiari, Maihama, next to DisneyLand, I found a store that specialized in model railway parts, bus models and generally all…

Shibuya

Danny Choo in Shibuya

There is always something interesting going on in Shibuya. Today, I bumped into Danny Choo from http://dannychoo.com who was in Shibuya to do some…

Marketing

What's GREE?

As you can see by these photos, there is a big advertising campaign at Shibuya station for the service called GREE. It is a Japanese based social…

Characters

Rilakkuma at the Zoo

You might know Rilakkuma, but you have probably never seen him playing like this? The monkey here was born at the zoo. The mother monkey would protect the…