This is Tokyo from little over 100 years ago. This is amazing how much has changed. But there are already a lot of people there. You hear "いらっしゃいませ" a...

I do not know why but there are more vending machines in Japan than any place else I know. Why do you think that is? May be because there will be less vandalizing in Japan.

Do you like Soba? If you would like to eat something ... You name the dish you want to eat and add "Tabetai" or "Tabetai Desu" at the end. Kare- Tabet...

I did not know there are so many hidden menus at Yoshinoya.

I often hear people in the US confuse Bonsai 盆栽 and Banzai 万歳. What you see above is Bonsai 盆栽....

No, it is not PoKe. PoKe is getting popular in the US, but this is Japanese style seafood bowl. You can get one in many places in Japan and the price ranges from 800 yen to 2,000yen. I think the one you are looking at is 1,200 yen in Ameyoko Tokyo.

これは美味しいぞ。 This is good tasting. これは空港のラウンジで食べました。 I ate those at Airport Lounge. おむすびは最高です。 Omusubi is the best....

Do you like Japanese sweets? In Japan, (red) beans are cooked with sugar to make sweet paste. So, when I came to the US and tasted salty beans, it was difficult to adopt. Many of Japanese sweets are rice (mochi / rice cake) and sweet red means. Do you like any of them?

There are handful of people who registered as a teacher at Japanese-Online. We have not forgotten about you. When we have few more teachers, we will publish the pages with list of you. We will contact you before we do publish it to make sure you are okay with it. At the mean time, if you are a Japanese language teache...

What you should know about Shinjyuku.