Japan Traveler's Companion. Rob Goss

      Gundam Café, designed to evoke the futuristic world of one of Japan’s most successful ever sci-fi media franchises, the Gundam series. Starting with the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam in 1979, it now spreads across TV, movies, video games, manga, and anime.

      OMOTESANDO, HARAJUKU AND SHIBUYA

      Tokyo’s Chic and Youthful Sides

      Omotesando-dori is one of those examples of how Tokyo just keeps changing. One hundred years ago, this 0.6-mile-long (one kilometer), tree-lined boulevard functioned as the approach to the then newly constructed Meiji Shrine, which was built to enshrine the souls of the Emperor Meiji and his wife Empress Shoken, but over the years the street has morphed into a focal point for cutting-edge architecture, design and fashion.