Tokyo is just huge, an endless city, amazing both on the ground or at the 50th floor of a hotel or an office. If you are not high-sick and want to realize how huge is the metropolis, the only solution is to climb to the top of those buildings, often equipped with indoor and outdoor observatories. Towers like Skytree and Tokyo Tower are obviously among the most popular tourist attractions, but here is exhaustive list of places to see Tokyo from above.
Yuyake koyake (Sunrise, Sunset) is a popular children song composed by Shin Kusakawa (1893-1948) who worked as a music teacher. All over Japan, every evening at 5 p.m., this music is loudly played for 20/30 seconds and then stops. The song is used as a signal meaning that Japanese children finish school and go home.
Here is the song lyric:
夕焼け 小焼けで 日（ひ）が暮（く）れて
山（やま）のお寺（てら）の 鐘（かね）がなる
おててつないで みなかえろう 烏（からす）と いっしょに かえりましょう
子供（こども）が かえった あとからは
まるい大（おお）きな お月（つき）さま
小鳥（ことり）が夢（ゆめ）を 見（み）るころは 空（そら）には きらきら 金（きん）の星（ほし）
The sunset is the end of the day,
the bell from the mountain temple rings
hand by hand let’s go back home together with the crows.
After the children are back at home
a big and round moon shines,
when the birds dream, the brightness from the stars fills the sky.
This one from Higashi Shinjuku in Tokyo.
Cat cafes in Tokyo are well known, but few people know that the Japanese capital also houses a veritable menagerie of animals inspired restaurants, with rabbits and owls, even penguins. In Japan many landlords prohibit owning pets, it is now also well known, the positive effect of the presence of pets to fight the stress of city dwellers and another reason may be a bit risky, the lack of affection Japanese could be a significant factor for the boom of those pets cafe. If some are excellent, others have not a soul out there. To avoid searching, we traveled all Tokyo to find the best “petto kaffe”.
Cut Channel continues its world tour of the evolution of beauty worldwide. After China or India, it is now the turn of Japan.
Unable to escape the Kawaï of the 2010s, here is a century of hairstyles in the Land of the rising sun. From the pretty hair bun of the 20s hrough the famous Geisha hairstyles, beauty has evolved during this century.
Cherry blossoms put Tokyo into a good mood.
Tokyo Hanami season in Tokyo starts in late March, probably 23 this year and lasts about a week. The following are among Tokyo’s most popular Hanami spots.
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