To re-unite the brothers we propose to connect both department stores in Ikebukuro with a new rooftop in the shape of Mt. Fuji Read More…
The Yamanote song explains the sequence of the different train stations on the Yamanote line. Read More…
Ikebukuro’s two huge department stores, Tobu and Seibu, vie constantly to be the biggest and best; if one adds extra floor-space, then the other follows soon after and each spurns the rival’s… Read More…
It seems that the washing ceremony on the Nihonbashi bridge not only relates to the bridge in its physicality but that it also functions as a cleaning ritual to celebrate the bridge… Read More…
A bronze plate in the middle of the Nihonbashi Bridge marks the zero point for the roads in Japan. All the distances to other places in Japan are measured from this mark.… Read More…
The purest varieties of water are collected from ten different areas in Japan to clean the Zero point on the Nihonbashi bridge Read More…
Report of the Nihonbashi Bridge Washing Ceremony (4th sunday of July) by Chuo City Tourism Association, Tokyo MX News and Sankei News Read More…
Every 4th sunday of July the Nihonbashi bridge is filled with businessmen, local inhabitants, children, the fire-brigade and neighborhood associations all busy with cleaning the Nihonbashi bridge. Read More…