Ikebukuro is one of Tokyo’s three major sub-centers and the central hub of the northern JR Yamanote Line. Thus, the gigantic Ikebukuro Station acts as an important hub that connects 2.62 million ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sogo & Seibu Co., Ltd. which has a long successful history of innovative and creative thinking, will renew its business strategy under its new shareholder and commence ...

The gateway to Saitama, 'Akihabara for women', one of Tokyo's most desirable places to live (!?) – Ikebukuro is all these things, but it's also one of the most heavily contested 'ramen battlegrounds' ...

Sogo & Seibu on Tuesday held a media preview of the renovated depachika (department store basement where foodstuffs are usually sold) sweets and gourmet market on the first basement floor at the ...

Recent advertisements indicate that the Sega Ikebukuro arcade is reopening just across the street from the recently-shuttered Sega Ikebukuro GiGO Arcade. The location will open on October 22, 2021. It ...

Japan’s three major Chinatowns are situated in Yokohama, Kobe, and Nagasaki, three cities whose ports were opened to foreign trade at the end of the Edo period (1603–1868). Each of these Chinatowns ...

Ikebukuro is one of Tokyo's biggest and busiest hubs, but has long been derided as a decidedly un-trendy 'gateway to Saitama', overshadowed by the likes of Shinjuku and Shibuya. That unfortunate ...

Once Tokyo’s post-war electronics haven, the neighborhood has grown into a modern mecca for anime fans. As its popularity has swelled, so have the crowds. However, that hasn’t quite been the case with ...

On a Sunday afternoon in June of this year, young women pulling roller luggage behind them emerge one after another from the east gate of Ikebukuro Station and make a bee line for nearby Sunshine City ...