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Tokyo
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Market Watch
Earth Day Market
Started with six vendors in 2006, the Earth Day Market in Tokyo’s Yoyogi Park was intended as a place to use Earth Day Money (an ...
Events
The Circus Comes to Town
After years of planning, Travis Pastrana’s Nitro Circus Live came to Japan for the first time wowing tens of thousands ...
Art and Film
Upcycled Treasures in the Heart of the City
On an unassuming street minutes away from Tokyo’s Sumida River, the Ozeki Lab construction team is hard at work transforming a 50...
Japan Angler
Better Off in the Bay
I’m sitting in a pub near Shinagawa Station, sipping a pint, when a slightly inebriated gentleman with an unmistakable Geordi...
Art and Film
Niijima Shorebreak
My first trip to Japan hadn’t produced any pictures worth talking about. The weather didn’t cooperate, and the water clarity at th...
Cycling Japan
Izu Ōshima—Mission to Mars…in Tokyo
I used to jokingly say, “Izu Ōshima is like visiting Mars in Tokyo.” I have been running bike tours on the island in spring a...
Scuba Diving
Bonin Blue
They call it “Bonin Blue.” Here I hovered, 60 feet under, surrounded in sapphire. Below, large boulders littered the sea floor. I...
Rafting
From Summit to Sea
It would be nice to say this adventure was based on careful reconnaissance and well reasoned forethought. It was not. Like many b...