Based in Japan: Labianna Pinklady Joroe
Blending drag and sexual education
Tattoo-Friendly Sento with Saunas in Tokyo
Unwind in Tokyo’s Bathhouses and Saunas
Discover the Craftsmanship of GLOBAL Knives
Metropolis Readers Get an Exclusive Gift at the Flagship Roppongi Store
Metropolis Autumn Issue 2024
See what’s inside and where to pick up a copy
How to Use a Sento or Onsen in Japan
A beginner’s guide to Japanese bathhouses
EXPAT EXPO TOKYO 2024
Connect with Tokyo’s international community, businesses and services
Tokyo Trends: Five Chrome Silver Accessories to Buy in Tokyo
It’s all acubi and blokette this season — here’s where to buy the look
Events
Living
Pop-Up Stores in Tokyo: October 2024
Editors’ picks for your city views, afternoon teas and shopping hauls
Things to Do in Tokyo in October
Metropolis’ top well-being events this October.
Tokyo Autumn Foliage 2024 Guide
Quiet and lesser-known spots in and around Tokyo
Based in Japan: Labianna Pinklady Joroe
Blending drag and sexual education
Community
Ginza and Tokyo Fashion Week: Runway for Hope
Rebuilding the Tohoku communities, thread by thread
The 10th Anniversary of the Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami
Commemorating the past and looking to future generations
TOSHI-LOW on the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami
“We need conversation about this disaster more than we need construction”
Who’s Who in the J-Vlogging Scene
6 Japan-based YouTubers to follow this fall
Commerce Beats Community at Miyashita Park
New retail complex in Shibuya displaces Tokyo’s homeless population
Appetite for Change
Single mothers confront Japan’s hidden realities
Travel
KADOYA HOTEL
Modern technology meets retro Japan
Andon Ryokan
Your home away from home
Dive into Okinawa
From deep retreats to eco tourism
Nikko
Nature & culture untouched by time
Okinawa’s Ocean Playground
Infinite possibilities in a breathtaking location
The Treasure Islands of Tokyo
Experience Tropical Life, Without Leaving Tokyo
Dining
New Aladdin
A low-profile hookah lounge with a huge personality
Sonic Feasts
Notes by Yamaha
Bar Piano
A showa-era date spot from the 1950s
Shingo Gokan
Shaking up Tokyo’s bar scene with the man behind the city’s best cocktail bars
Gem by moto
A curios fusion of world-class sake with imaginative tapas
Have a Swig
A taste of high-class, barrier-free community cocktail culture
Literature
Five Female Japanese Writers You Should Be Reading
The best contemporary female authors with English translated novels
Five Best Japanese Novels of 2018
Metropolis lists this year’s best Japanese fiction
In Praise of Shadows
A new translation sheds light on East-West duality
Contesting Myths
Best-selling writer Robert Whiting reviews a history of Japanese “samurai baseball”
This Great Stage of Fools
An anthology of Alan Booth’s uncollected writings on Japan
Andrea Fazzari: Tokyo New Wave
Photographer and writer Andrea Fazzari captures the intimate, personal sides of Tokyo’s new generation of chefs
Movies
