January 11, 2022 • 25m
A store in a Tokyo suburb selling short-dated, surplus or imperfect yet edible food items cheaply is a magnet for thrifty shoppers...Read more
January 25, 2022 • 25m
The huge underground parking lot at Tokyo's Kasai Station can hold about 10,000 bicycles. Each day, from very early until very lat...Read more
February 8, 2022 • 25m
As bonito season peaks in mid-July, the port in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, buzzes as fishermen unload their catches and prepare...Read more
February 22, 2022 • 25m
With half of the face covered by masks, eyebrows can make a big statement. About 80% of the customers who visit the hair and makeu...Read more
March 8, 2022 • 25m
A large 24-hour skateboard park in an industrial area of Hekinan City, Aichi Prefecture, is popular with skateboarders of all ages...Read more
April 5, 2022 • 25m
A huge used clothing store in Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture, has racks filled with 100,000 garments including jackets, jeans and swe...Read more
April 19, 2022 • 25m
The 200 students at a nursing college in Nara Prefecture, Japan, range from new high school graduates to people seeking a change i...Read more
May 3, 2022 • 25m
As 2021 draws to a close, workers in Tokyo's Shimbashi business district flock to a long-established western-style sweets shop fam...Read more
May 24, 2022 • 25m
Kashiikaen, an amusement park in Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, closed at the end of 2021 after 65 years of operation. Ne...Read more
June 21, 2022 • 25m
The Tsugaru Railway runs through a remote and snowy part of Aomori Prefecture in northern Japan. As well as being a vital mode of ...Read more
July 5, 2022 • 25m
A small truck loaded with vegetables, meat, snacks and other items – a mobile supermarket – is a lifeline for residents in remote ...Read more
July 19, 2022 • 25m
The Yuriage district in Natori City, Miyagi Prefecture, was devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami that occurre...Read more
August 2, 2022 • 25m
Smartphones have become a vital part of modern-day life. Many people flock to a large cell phone store in Tokyo's Shinjuku distric...Read more
August 16, 2022 • 25m
Photo sticker booths are a magnet for teenagers at a video arcade in Tokyo. Over 3 days in mid-March, we met 2 friends about to gr...Read more
September 13, 2022 • 25m
A large plastic model kit store in Osaka Prefecture sells models, miniature trains, diorama supplies and other items. The model ma...Read more
October 4, 2022 • 25m
A pebbly beach on Niigata Prefecture's Sea of Japan coast contains pieces of real jade. Some people who come here for a natural tr...Read more
October 18, 2022 • 25m
An unmanned stall in a residential area of Tokyo's Nerima Ward uses coin-operated lockers to sell locally grown vegetables includi...Read more
November 1, 2022 • 25m
A theater for rakugo comic storytelling in Tokyo's Asakusa district has been tickling funny bones for decades. Visitors to the the...Read more
November 15, 2022 • 25m
Rows of yellow handkerchiefs fly in the breeze at a small train station in the Shimabara Peninsula, Nagasaki Prefecture. Right beh...Read more
November 22, 2022 • 25m
Kakigori, shaved ice drizzled with flavored syrup, is a summer staple in Japan. An ice shop in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, has bee...Read more