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Japan’s sidewalk restaurants, known as “yatai,” have almost entirely disappeared—except in Fukuoka, where they’ve undergone a ...

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I am smitten with Tokyo's eclectic mix of modern cosmopolitanism and old world Japan,' confesses Dinesh Raheja.

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For the access to Kikyo-mon (the Kikyo gate), the meeting place for the general visit tour is about a 10-minute walk from Exit No. 6 of the Nijubashi-mae Station on the Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line and ...

Tokyo - A single bee stopped trains in a sleepy, rural town outside Tokyo at the weekend, inconveniencing 1 200 passengers, but the insect was only looking for a warm shelter, rail officials said on ...

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In recent decades the walls and maps were visible to passengers but had remained in a damaged state. Govia – which operates Southern and Gatwick Express trains from Victoria – arranged to have ...

A man with a knife slashed two passengers on a train stopping at a Tokyo subway station during the evening rush on Wednesday, and their injuries were not believed to be life-threatening ...