Tokyo stories your guide tells

True stories from the streets our private tours walk, researched from Japanese sources. Each one happened somewhere you can still stand.

Ginza

Nobody believed Tokyo needed a subway, so he stood in the street and counted

Nobody believed Tokyo needed a subway, so he stood in the street and counted

Hayakawa Noritsugu, the Wako crossing, and how he lost the line he built.

Nakano

Ultraman's face was cast from a real man's head

Ultraman's face was cast from a real man's head

The actor inside the suit, the years cleaning offices, and a phone call in 2007.

Shibuya

After the war, an army officer wrote Shibuya's love letters

After the war, an army officer wrote Shibuya's love letters

The tiny shop beside today's SHIBUYA109, and the one question he asked first.

Cars and JDM

The engineer who tore the GT-R badge off his own car

The engineer who tore the GT-R badge off his own car

Why Nissan's most famous name disappeared, and the car it came back on.