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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
Love Hotels are very popular in Japan. Love Hotels is a short stay theme hotel mostly used by Japanese couples who want a place to have sex. Love Hotels offers a room rate for “Rest” ranging from one to three hours as well as for “Overnight Stay” usually available after 10pm. Love Hotels are mainly used by young Japanese couples and also used for prostitution.
Love Hotels entrances are discreet. Rooms can select from a panel of buttons and the bills are usually settled automatic cash machines. Love Hotels rooms are usually fancy decorated rooms decorated or even equipped with S&M gear. Most Love Hotels are located in Shibuya, Tokyo with buildings shaped like UFO or Castles lit with pink and purple neon lighting.
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Tokyo Sea Life Park is part of Kasai Rinkai Park. The aquarium has a world largest 2,200 ton Tuna tank wraps around the Aqua Theater to give a panoramic view of the Tuna swimming. The penguin pool is one of the best places to look at penguins in Japan. The pool showcase the world smallest penguin - Fairy Penguin.
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Cats Livin is a store in Odaiba, Tokyo selling cat’s merchandise, toys and treats for cats. Behind the main store is a simulated house environment with different breeds of cats, like a Sphynx, Persians, Siamese, and Abyssinians. If you like cats, you can pay ¥1200 and spend all day with the kittens or cats you like.
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Doraemon is a Japanese cartoon series created by Fujiko F. Fujio in 1969. Doraemon was awarded the first Shogakukan Manga Award for children’s manga in 1982 and the first Osamu Tezuka Culture Award in 1997. In 2002 Time Asia magazine voted Doraemon as one of the 22 Asian Heroes. Doraemon cartoon series are comedies with moral lessons about homeless animals, dinosaurs, endangered species, Gulliver’s Travels, the flat earth theory, wormhole traveling, deforestation, pollution and history of Japan.
Doraemon is about a robotic cat travels back in time from the 22nd century to help a schoolboy called Nobita Nobi. He was sent back in time by Nobita Nobi’s great great grandson Sewashi to help Nobita’s circumstances so that his descendants will enjoy a better future. Nobita’s failures in school and his career have left his family with financial problems.
Doraemon always has many futuristic gadget to help Nobita problems but Nobita usually goes too far and gets into more trouble. Nobita’s friends Suneo and Jaian always steal the gadgets and misusing them. But by the end of the story usually there is a retribution to those who end up misusing them and a moral lesson is learn.
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Tokyo Disneyland is a theme park at the Tokyo Disney Resort located beside Tokyo in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan. Tokyo Disneyland occupied a 115 acre land and was the first Disney park built outside of the United States. The park was constructed by Walt Disney Imagineering similar to Disneyland in California.
Tokyo Disneyland theme park consist of the World Bazaar and the four classic Disney lands including Adventureland, Westernland, Fantasyland and Tomorrowland along with two Mini Lands, Critter Country and Mickey’s Toontown. The theme park is huge with open spaces to accommodate the huge crowds. Till today Tokyo Disneyland is one of the most visited theme park in the world.
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
Pachinko is a Japanese gaming device used for amusement similar to pinball machines. They were first built during the 1920s as a children’s toy and became an adult pastime in Nagoya around 1930. They are widespread in establishments called pachinko parlors. During World War II all pachinko parlors in Japan were closed but reform in the late 1940s and has been popular since then.
Pachinko parlors share similar reputation as slot machine dens with garish decoration with musics, announcements and flashing lights. Modern pachinko machines are customizable to keep players continuously entertained. Players buy 250 metal balls at 1000 yen which are shot into the machine, with the chance of winning more balls by getting the metal balls into a gate.
Players may either use to keep playing or exchange for gold tokens, vouchers and prizes. In Japan cash are not allow to be paid out but there is a small exchange center located nearby where players can exchange tokens for cash.
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