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It's getting close to cherry blossom season here in Tokyo. Starbucks is getting into the spirit with a whole menu if sakura theme drinks and foods. I tried the sakura steamer which is like a sweet latte. They also have sakura cakes and frappacinos t...

Usually if you pull out a camera in a shop in Tokyo some worker will hurdle over the cash register and make a big X with his arms to signify that taking more pictures will result in a wrestling match with the staff sumo champion. Unfortunately most s...

Sorry for the lack of posts lately. Got a bit buried with work, but should be up to speed soon. Also want to post some pics to Danny's new Tokyo.Japantimes page. Saw this whole row of Manga artist tools as an art shop in Shinjuku. Lots of special r...

I'm at a Poken gathering in Tokyo and I was able to get the first pack of Danny Choo pokens on sale! Lucky! Poken are digital business cards that you can use to exchange your info with other poken owners. You just touch the hands together. These...

Having a great time today here at WonFes in Makuhari Messe today. Thanks to Danny and the folks at Good Smile Company I een got a pass to let me in early to take some photos. Will post them up soon. Have broadcasted several times via UStream and Tw...

I've been playing around a lot with livecasting and streaming video solutions and decided to fashion my own custom webcam to take around with me. Here's a prototype I just put together made with a camera tripod and a Logitech Orbit Webcam. A cool t...

I was at the UStram event held here in Roppongi and nearin the end we had the traditional Jan-Ken Taikai or Rock-Paper-Scissors Contest. The whole room will participate in order to win amazing prizes. I had a great night winning a UStream t-shirt a...

Saw this very pretty bottle in the convenience store today and decided "what the heck". I mean how often does one run across a sparkling chocolate flavored soda? Japanese convenience stores are great places to hunt for new and interesting things. i...

I love bridges. They symbolize the perfect product to me. A tool that is very practical and designed to make people lives easier, but also a bridge can be a work of art that is beautiful and unique. Tokyo is a great place for me. With several rivers...

While browsing at the local conbini, I was shocked to see these chocolates in the candy section. Lotte is selling these chocolates containing small amounts of actual whisky! (12 year old single malt whisky to be precise). Actually the alcohol conten...

For the downtown office worker lunchtime can often be a battle. Most companies have a strict hour lunch and workers are required to take lunch at 12-1 on the dot. This creates lines just to get onto the elevator to het out of the building. Then yet m...

One of my favorite treats since I was a little kid is Gyouza. Usually served in Chinese restaurants or Ramen joints, these fried dumplings are the ultimate junk food. I passed this gyouza specialty place near Akihabara a few days ago and decided to s...

Where else would you expect a high tech robot to live but in Akihabara? Near Akihabara in the Dai Bldg 2nd fl lobby is Studio Asimo. A display for Honda's concept robot Asimo. When he is not showing off his skills at some convention or saving Tokyo...

After a long night livestreaming my visit to Kanda Myojin shrine for Hatsumode (the first shrine visit of the year) and watching videos at home with my friends we have opened up the traditional Japanese food called Osechi. Osechi is a fancy bento b...

Tomorrow is the first day of the 77th Comic Market (also known as Comiket) held in Ariake at Tokyo Big Site. Over the next three days tens of thousand of artists from around Japan (and some from beyond the shores like dannychoo.com friend Kurot) and...

McDonald's really treats it's customers in Akihabara well. With free wifi, power outlets for laptops, and 24 hour restaurants all over, McDonalds has become a popular otaku hangout. They also often test new products here. This sign shows four new bu...

Having a business lunch today in Hibiya, near Tokyo Station. Going for a nice Chinese restaurant and they have this huge display showing all the food on the menu made with plastic models. These displays are very real and quite appetizing. If you com...

A rather humorous but fairly common sight here in downtown Tokyo. The sign informs all the people in this park (80% of them smoking away) that there is ni smoking here. Several years ago, a number of districts in the downtown area passed ordniances...

A familiar, almost traditional rite of passage in Alihabara is the Queue. Long lines if people, often waiting overnight for a chance to purchase some rare commodity. We often see lines of people in front of every kind of shop in Akihabara. They are...

A set of photos from the lighting displays around Roppongi Hills with a bit of Tokyo Tower thrown in. Holiday light displays are very popular in Japan, but in the past the costs were astronomical. Now the displays use low power LEDs that reduce elec...

Bit of wandering in Akiba today and I noticed a poster for the next round on Ichiban Kuji. This time it's K-ON! goods. Ichiban Kuji is a type of lucky draw for very limited edition Anime goods. You go and buy tickets at select stores and you open u...

Riding my bicycle through Tokyo and passed by the Imperial Palace. Right at the center of Tokyo, the Imperial palace grounds are huge and is surrounded by a giant moat. Lots if stuff lives in the moat. if you look into the murky water you can see g...

Ok, I was kind of nodding off just now on the subway and started reading this ad positioned right by the door. Dr. Yamamoto's Excessive Hand Sweat Clinic. -_-; I love reading ads placed around Tokyo. You see some very intersting things and sometim...

Huge ad for the new Final Fantasy XIII game coming out layer this month. Takes up the whole front of a shop on the main street here in Akiba. Was a big fan of VII back in the day and enjoy playing it even now (on my PSP) but after seeing some if t...