「Tokyo Survival Channel」の記事 
Experience
The change in the season from spring to summer in Japan is a celebration when people come together, eat together, dance together on Japanese folk tunes, play funfair games, and watch firecrackers while spreading summer cheer. Summer festivals (natsu-matsuri) are an ingrained part of the Japanese tradition and culture eagerly awaited each year. Last year…
Experience
The episode where Zoria gets overzealous to be Zen, from zero to a zillion Try a meditation app, they said. It’Ll bE fUn, ThEy SaId… All those apps promising peace of mind, and the first one I download had the audacity to tell me to accept that all the great civilizations are dead and downfall…
Experience
We’re now an unsaid and probably unforeseeable amount of months into COVID related restrictions, lockdown, travel bans, and general uncertainty. The novelty of zoom drinking parties has long been forgotten, in the memory bin along with dalgona coffee, DIY sourdough and the naive but admirable home-bound self-improvement projects. So what’s next? What can we do…
Shopping
When I landed in Tokyo with my husband six months ago, little did I know that Japan was just at the brink of a pandemic that would shut down all the borders, and being trapped indoors would be a new normal. While we were lucky enough to find a place within the first few weeks…
Experience
Broken things don’t have to stay broken. This is not a groundbreaking philosophy I’m just revealing to you, as we all own a stick of superglue, or a thread and a needle. Broken things can be mended. However, you don’t need to hide the evidence of the fractures. This is exactly where kintsugi stands out…
Eating & Drinking
L’Apéritif French cooking is notoriously difficult. Chefs train for years to perfect these complicated and delicate techniques to create some of the world’s most intricate, yet deceptively simple-looking dishes. So when I was challenged to recreate three dishes from a high end, fine-dining French restaurant in Ginza in my not so high end, little Japanese…
Eating & Drinking
When I landed at a Japanese university I had one mission for my first day: to sit next to the window, that crucial spot in which main anime characters usually sit in class. I was even joined by a green-haired stranger and we became friends. There are so many ways to take things out of…
Experience
Even before I moved to Japan, there were a few things that I had always been curious about this country, thanks to having read about them a lot online, seen them in movies or in magazines and news. I have always been fascinated about the astounding geisha world. So when Tokyo Survival Channel challenged me…
Experience
We always complain about having not enough time, and now for many of us, this COVID situation (not to diminish its tragedy) has gifted us an absolute ambiance of that time we’re always asking for. With the modern obsessions with self-optimization and existential crises about feeling unproductive, we’re seeing sourdough loaves showcased across social media…
Living
You say “end game,” and my imagination runs wild picturing brutalist architecture, grey bare concrete towers, sirens, chaos and flying cars in a futuristic world. Apocalypse can mean many things: robot overlords, Ultraman and Super Sentai (Power Rangers) uniting to save our earth from giant aliens, zombies, conspiracy theories, and of course Godzilla cutting to…
Living
– a 14 day social experiment – They say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. So, I went to the same convenience store, at the same time of day, every day, ordered the same thing and expected different results. Am I insane? Not…
Traveling
A sociable soul tries (socially) distancing like a pro, taking pages from vampires, introverts, hikikomori, fugitives and other people-avoiders. I sit in a snug little spot in the middle of the introvert-extrovert dichotomy. I’m a cafe half-full half-empty kinda’ gal. I love concerts, but I hate the morning trains. I like people, I don’t like…
Experience
Outsiders to the world of surfing can think we’re a crazy bunch. If there are waves, you’ll find us even on the coldest of days, out in the water, looking for our next fix like a bunch of drug addicts. While the mythology of the brave and crazy surfer continues, there is one trick that…