Shinjuku Station World’s Biggest Chalkboard Art

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To celebrate the release of the new Dragon Quest Heroes II, Square Enix has asked RenaRena to reproduce a chalk mural on a giant 14 meters long blackboard in Shinjuku station. Already known for her previous chalkboard work around the game Dark Souls, it took RenaRena a month to complete the mural and the final result is just stunning.

On display from May 23rd to May 29th, the installation uses the power of social media, once tweets containing the hashtag #DQH2 exceed 5,000 by the end of May 24th, the blackboard will be wiped clean of monsters from the following day.

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G-cans The Underground Temple

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You have already visited every Tokyo temples? So why not go to G-cans, an underground temple.

Built between 1992 and 2006 and located on the outskirts of Tokyo, the “Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel”, more commonly known as the G-Cans is an underground storm drain system that consists of five containment concrete silos 65m high and a diameter of 32m, connected by 6.4 km tunnels, all 50 m beneath the surface.

G-can The Underground Temple But mainly a huge reservoir 177m long, 78m wide and 25.4m high, nicknamed “The Temple” and which with its pillars looks like a majestic and mystical temple.

The G-Can is a fascinating tourist destination and when not flooded, tours are conducted twice daily, Tuesday to Friday, but only in Japanese.

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Bee comfortable: Japan Capsule Hotel

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The capsule hotels (カ プ セ ル ホ テ ル, kapuseruhoteru) are part of the fantasy of many tourists traveling to Japan. They have the particularity to fully optimize the space occupied and the rooms are therefore limited to a single cabin bed. The Capsule Inn Osaka, designed by Kisho Kurokawa and located in the Umeda district of Osaka, was the first capsule hotel. It opened on 1 February 1979.
In this space there is all you need: a single bed, storage space, a lamp and a TV. Showers and changing rooms are collective. If the place looks very confined, for the claustrophobic, know there is space to move, or even sit down, it’s not a coffin. These “dormitories” rarely welcome the ladies. If this is the case, women and men will be separated. Finally, note that the capsules are only for one person.
Here is a list of some of the coolest ones in Japan.