JapanTravelTips 6/6/2015 Healthy juice,Ramen&Himeji

The Japan Connected-free Wi-Fi app which enables users to connect easily to free Wi-Fi nationwide can now be used at Japan’s leading convenience store chains FamilyMart and Lawson.

It is still early on a humid weekday evening but already this cabaret club in Tokyo’s Kabukicho district is in full swing. At 20-minute intervals a different hostess arrives, takes her place next to her customer and goes to work: pouring drinks, lighting cigarettes and engaging in small talk.

The last few years have seen a boom in Tokyo’s vegetarian and organic restaurant scene. And as the healthy eating trend picks up speed, so has the number of small, independent shops specialising in freshly pressed juice and smoothies.

A few blocks from Tomita Ramen is another offshoot of the local Tomita Group enterprise: Tomita Shokudou, opened in 2010.

Although it was built not long time ago, in 1992, the Himeji Koko-en deserves a place among the most representative gardens in Japan. Actually, it is a complex of 9 different gardens, planned to illustrate the essence of the Edo period garden design.

The “World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2015” selected by London (CNN) British restaurant papers was announced a few days ago and a restaurant in Spain was named number 1 in the world. There are 2 restaurants named from Japan as well and one ranked in the top 10.

GLate for work, a man rushes for the train and just manages to squeeze in through the carriage doors a fraction of a second before they ram shut.