Quirky Japan

The Tokyo Deep Guide (Tokyo Deep Annai) is a　Japanese blog whose mission is to introduce a side of Tokyo that you don’t read about in t....
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Construction Worker Fashionistas

Traditional Japanese construction worker clothes are called tobi shouzoku. The men and women who put up Japan’s buildings have been gettin....
5 Apr 10:30 pm from Quirky Japan

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Self-Defence Force Land

You may have heard about this place in the news. It’s called the Rikujou Jieitai Kouhou Senta-, or the Ground Self-Defense Forces Public I....
28 Mar 8:30 pm from Quirky Japan

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Cherry Blossoms vs. Plum Blossoms

Yesterday I realized that despite having lived more than 15 years in Japan, I can’t tell the difference between a plum blossom and a cherr....
22 Mar 7:05 pm from Quirky Japan

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Wake ari buken

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16 Mar 11:47 am from Quirky Japan

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Japanese Floorplan Fails

I was browsing in a bookstore last week and came across this book called Henna Madori. It’s a book filled with strange apartment floorplan....
14 Mar 7:27 pm from Quirky Japan

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Signs

This statue of the Manneken Piss on the platform of JR Hamamatsu Station has been dressed up in a fire fighter’s uniform for the Spring F....
8 Mar 10:06 am from Quirky Japan

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Japanese People’s Most-Hated English Words

This is from a 2-channel discussion I chanced upon. The thread’s title was “English words you hate“ 1. Encyclopedia I don’t have a r....
1 Mar 6:15 pm from Quirky Japan

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Susuki

Susuki, or pampas grass is a well-known symbol of fall in Japan, but I took these susuki photos in Nara around New Years. ....
21 Feb 11:30 pm from Quirky Japan

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Tokyo Realtime Tours

In the past, tourists in Japan faced the difficult choice of getting herded around on a package tour or wandering around without a guide hav....
16 Feb 7:11 pm from Quirky Japan

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Nokogiri-yama

If Nokogiri-yama was in Kyoto, it would almost certainly be an A-list tourist attraction. It has a huge daibutsu (great Buddha statue) that ....
10 Feb 11:14 pm from Quirky Japan

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Nose Hair Bridge, Sulfuric Acid Town, and Disappointment Island: Odd Japanese Place Names

Photo By Monami, available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license. A few weeks ago I did a post featuring strange photo....
1 Feb 10:55 pm from Quirky Japan

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Higashi Omiya

If you ever have a chance to get out to a small, local festival near where you live, you’ll probably find that they can be surprisingly en....
25 Jan 9:07 am from Quirky Japan

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Kanchu Mizuabi, the Ice-water Bathing Festival

I’m a bit of a samugariya (someone who hates the cold), so I found myself shivering just watching these guys pouring ice-cold water over t....
19 Jan 10:29 pm from Quirky Japan

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Nara New Year’s

On New Year’s day, my in-laws went to visit some local shrines near their house, and I went along to take photos. I found the tiny rural....
11 Jan 9:18 pm from Quirky Japan

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Random Bizarre Photos from around the Japanese Interwebs

These photos are from a website called Himajin. A himajin is a person with too much time on his or her hands. Caution Fuji-Q Highland is a ....
5 Jan 9:40 pm from Quirky Japan

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Right Winger Sound Truck

These right wingers were protesting in Ueno recently. When I first came to Japan, I was always really curious about what the signs on their....
28 Dec 10:38 pm from Quirky Japan

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The Tire Park

Tokyo’s Nishirokugo Koen, better known as Tire Koen is about the most unique park I’ve ever seen. Most of the equipment is built out of ....
22 Dec 10:21 am from Quirky Japan

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Thousand-tatami Cliff in Shirahama

The senjojiki (thousand tatami mat cliff) in Shirahama. Shirahama is a popular tourist resort in Wakayama prefecture and these cliffs are a....
22 Dec 10:20 am from Quirky Japan

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The View From the Tower

I live in a big apartment tower in Arakawa Ward of Tokyo. Here are a few of the more interesting things I’ve seen from my balcony. The Su....
14 Dec 10:37 pm from Quirky Japan

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The Mermaid’s Stroll Love Hotel

I came across this odd little love hotel will driving along the coast of Wakayama Prefecture. It’s called Ningyou no Osanpo. There’s mo....
14 Dec 10:36 pm from Quirky Japan

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Tokyo Vice Book Review

Tokyo Vice is a courageous book written by a very brave man*. It’s the autobiography of Jake Adelstein, an American who worked on the poli....
7 Dec 10:29 pm from Quirky Japan

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Hina Doll at the Awashima Shrine in Wakayama

Hina doll at Awashima Jinja in Wakayama prefecture. Many Japanese people believe that dolls have souls, so instead of throwing them in the....
7 Dec 10:26 pm from Quirky Japan

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Japanese Fortune Telling: Of Cats’ Paw-pads, Penguins, Monsters, and Gundams

A couple weeks ago I was riding the train and saw a big poster for a book called Neko no Nikukyuu Uranai (Cat’s Paw-pad Fortune Telling). ....
1 Dec 10:12 pm from Quirky Japan

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Shinmachi Juku

Gojo is a small city in Nara Prefecture, about an hour and a half from Osaka by train、and is on the way to the famous monastery-mountain M....
24 Nov 10:31 pm from Quirky Japan

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Niche Blogs

I guess every blogger in Japan sometimes envies the Japan Probes and the Danny Choos and the millions of visitors they get. I read them and ....
17 Nov 6:35 pm from Quirky Japan

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Railway Museum

Is it lame to write a blog post about a place you don’t recommend? I went to the Transportation Museum in Omiya, about 30 minutes north of....
9 Nov 8:43 pm from Quirky Japan

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