Lifestyle | CHILD'S PLAY Nov 15, 2020

Upgrade your kids’ home dance parties with a class at Studio Tron

For dance-loving children, Studio Tron is the stuff of dreams, with feel-good pop, floor-to-ceiling mirrors and kind, professional teachers.

Food & Drink Sep 12, 2020

Opening a hotel restaurant is about more than the menu

The challenges facing chefs opening hotel restaurants are as extensive as they are complex. Factor in a pandemic, and strategies must be rethought.

Lifestyle | CHILD'S PLAY Sep 6, 2020

A serene kid’s cultural experience in the heart of Kamakura

“Kids” and “tea ceremony” don’t often go together, but Modern Ryokan Kishi-ke has a one-day program that will engage all of your little one’s senses.

Lifestyle | CHILD'S PLAY Jul 5, 2020

Let your little farmers loose at this luxe agriculture-tourism resort in Nasu

Do you — and the kids — need a break from the city? A few days in Risonare Nasu’s Agri-Garden will set everyone to rights.

Lifestyle | CHILD'S PLAY Apr 26, 2020

How to spend a day (or a month) at home with the kids

Entertaining the kids while staying home is becoming easier for families across Japan as services normally confined to Tokyo begin putting themselves online.

Style & Design Mar 9, 2020

Design innovations in Kyoto's textile industry pave the way forward

The contrasting worlds of contemporary designer Mae Engelgeer and Hosoo, a historical Japanese textile company, overlap to ethereal effect at "Colortage," an exhibition of new approaches to fabrics.

Lifestyle | CHILD'S PLAY Feb 17, 2020

Purrfect: Kids, cats and cookies

Quiet green lanes, low-rise wooden houses, generations-old tofu stores, atmospheric temples, cycling grannies, small creative ateliers — and cats. Lots of cats. Yanaka, an east Tokyo neighborhood hugging the fringes of the JR Yamanote circle, is something of an urban time capsule, with its growing ...

Lifestyle | CHILD'S PLAY Dec 16, 2019

Exercising can be fun with CrossFit for kids

Running around on all fours, jumping onto mattresses, lifting weights — CrossFit is a great way to for kids to expel excess energy.

Lifestyle | CHILD'S PLAY Oct 20, 2019

Encourage the little Van Goghs of the family

It's one of the world's most iconic expressions of a night sky: a bold yellow moon, a milky expanse of stars and gradated shades of blue alongside the swirling silhouette of a cypress tree and a distant sleeping village. "The Starry Night," created by Dutch ...

Lifestyle | CHILD'S PLAY Aug 18, 2019

Activities to keep the kids animated

Have a young budding animation director on your hands? "The Science Behind Pixar" exhibition takes kids (and so-inclined adults) through the process from modeling and rigging to simulation and rendering.