Recent advertisements indicate that the Sega Ikebukuro arcade is reopening just across the street from the recently-shuttered Sega Ikebukuro GiGO Arcade. The location will open on October 22, 2021. It ...

Despite leading the first strike in 61 years at a major Japanese department store, Yasuhiro Teraoka’s former nemesis appointed him manager of Seibu’s flagship store in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro district.

My quest to find some of Tokyo’s half-hidden treasures and overlooked spots takes me to Ōtsuka Station. This plain-looking area apparently has little to offer besides Ōtsuka Golf Plaza, one of the ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sogo & Seibu Co., Ltd. which has a long successful history of innovative and creative thinking, will renew its business strategy under its new shareholder and commence ...

Ikebukuro is one of Tokyo’s three major sub-centers and the central hub of the northern JR Yamanote Line. Thus, the gigantic Ikebukuro Station acts as an important hub that connects 2.62 million ...

Sogo & Seibu on Tuesday held a media preview of the renovated depachika (department store basement where foodstuffs are usually sold) sweets and gourmet market on the first basement floor at the ...

Where should we go today? Living in an uninhabited Ikebukuro can be quite difficult. Not only do you need to eat, you also need a bed to sleep comfortably and a bath to wash yourself. Kanako and ...

Ikebukuro is one of Tokyo's biggest and busiest hubs, but has long been derided as a decidedly un-trendy 'gateway to Saitama', overshadowed by the likes of Shinjuku and Shibuya. That unfortunate ...

Japan’s three major Chinatowns are situated in Yokohama, Kobe, and Nagasaki, three cities whose ports were opened to foreign trade at the end of the Edo period (1603–1868). Each of these Chinatowns ...

The first real earthquake I remember experiencing was on March 11, 2011. You might recognize that as the day of the Great Tohoku Earthquake, which brought the devastating tsunami that ravaged the ...