Concerts & clubs

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Tokyo WeekenderTokyoGreat Teacher Onizuka Is Back: GTO 2026 Live-Action Drama Review The Great Teacher Onizuka manga by Tooru Fujisawa was an instant hit when it came out in 1997. It was quickly followed in 1998 by a live-action drama and, a year later, by an anime.

September 24

Kyoto City Official Travel

Kyoto City Official TravelOfficialThe Nijo-jo Castle English Guided Tour Learn about Kyoto from the experts with a guided tour into some of the city’s secrets! This time, follow an expat living in Kyoto as…

September 8

Tokyo CheapoTokyoTokyo Events This Week: Autumn Festivals, Live Music, and Fireworks Tokyo events for Monday, September 7, to Sunday, September 13, 2026. The chirr of cicadas has softened and the summer heat is (mostly) behind us, but there’s still plenty to see and do around the…

September 6

Fukuoka NowKyushuTour de Kyushu 2026 Fukuoka Stage: Tenjin Spectator Guide Saturday, October 10. An international road race will sweep through the streets of Fukuoka and finish right in the heart of Tenjin.

August 26

Japan StationGoNew Japan Philharmonic to Perform Railway-Themed Concert Featuring Departure Melodies If you regularly take trains in Japan, you will be familiar with some of the departure melodies that are played on station platforms just before a train departs.

June 7

Sapporo Chuo

Sapporo ChuoOfficialHokkaido Red Brick Walking Tour Information DoshinDC Co., Ltd. has begun selling the “Hokkaido Red Brick Walking Tour.” Hokkaido Red Brick Walking Tour ■DatesOctober 1 (Wed) – December 10 (Wed), 2025 *Every weekday, excluding weekends and…

October 16, 2025

Day by Day Japan plans a first trip to Japan the way a friend who lives here would: one day at a time, with the trains and the prices written down.

Each route is a real day or weekend: where to go first, how long the walk or the train takes, what the ticket costs and where to eat on the way. Prices come from the operator's or the place's own published fares and carry the date they were checked; where we have not checked a price, the route says so instead of guessing. If it rains, the route has a plan B.

Around the routes sits the week in Japan. Every few hours the site reads the Japanese city and food press and the English-language desks in Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and Fukuoka, and puts the places they name on one map. Headlines stay in the language they were written in, every story links to its source, and we quote no more than a line.

The routes and notes are written by one editor under a pen name, Sora Nakamura, drafted with AI assistance from checked material and read before they go out. Day by Day Japan is independent: no advertisers, no affiliate links, no bookings.