Super heroes have started appearing around the world, using their powers to bring peace to the world. 14 year old Teru Momijiyama in Japan just started taking on the role but doesn't like attention just like her hero alias "Shy" suggests ("Teru" can also mean shy in Japanese) yet she decides to do the same for her country. Soon she...

Formerly known as "Lifetree Ueno", the hotel is easy to spot from Ueno Station as reviews say. You can see the L-shaped outline of the tall building from a distance made of offices on the lower floors while the upper 20+ floors are the hotel rooms. Following Google Maps it's around 10 minutes walk from the train station where youll...

20 year old undergraduate Kazuya has just been dumped and unable to get over his ex-girlfriend Mami, he decides to use some of the tuition money his parents gave him to spend a day with a rented girlfriend of his choice, Chizuru Mizuhara "Ichinose". However, during their "date" he receives a call that his dear grandmother had...

Chisato is part of a secret organisation "DA" that trains young orphan girls for their missions and name them, "Lycoris" (there's an all boys unit named, "LycoBell" too). Their sole purpose is to eliminate any signs of crime in Japan discretely without anyone ever noticing. When the cool, serious all business Takina Inoue...

Kojiro Shindo is the top Foreign Affairs Ministry negotiator in Japan. One day while on a plane ready to fly off to an international conference from Haneda Airport, a giant 2km edged cube appears and envelopes the plane he is on. When Kojiro takes the initiative to explore the strange new space they are trapped in, an anisotropic...

I was inspired to do this post after realising how many locations I recognised from shows and games I've played after visiting Japan. You will probably too once you've been since so many fictional works are based on real life locations and the great thing is you won't have to go out of your way to find these places unlike say Makoto...

Since our hotel was in Tokyo, I decided we would visit Senso-ji first which was in Asakusa. Always see the temple in travel programmes about Japan with its giant red lanterns. We went out the wrong exit at Shibuya Station on the night we arrived so, we didn't really get to see the famous crossing during the night. This time we did early in...