After an amazing journey through the ocean it’s time to take a look at how life looks in rivers around the world. Are you prepared for Waterfront Journey in Sunshine Aquarium?

Would you like to see a shark, penguin, ocean sunfish, giant octopus and dyeing dart frog on the rooftop of a skyscraper in the middle of the city? Just go to Sunshine City Aquarium then! Located in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, it's really a place worth seeing.

Just a short movie, a whole coverage will be posted soon!

Miso soup is probably the most popular dish in Japan (yes I know, you were expecting sushi, but surprise!). It’s added as a side dish to almost every type of lunch meal, it can also be a part of breakfast and supper. Bonus: it may be prepared in around 10 minutes, so try it! Once again this is not an original Japanese recipe, this is a really easy, basic “Cooking 101” recipe.

Ingredients:

2 teaspoons of dashi
3 cups of water (3x 250 ml)
2,5 spoons of miso paste
65g tofu
1 spoon of dried seaweed
slices of green onion

Preparation:

1. Chop seaweed into small parts and cut tofu into cubes.
   
2. Boil water in a pot. Add dashi. Whisk until it dissolve.
   
3. Lower the heat and add tofu and seaweed.
   
4. Put miso paste into a bowl or ladle. Add a little of the dashi and whisk until it becomes smooth. 
   
5. Add miso to the soup and boil a short while on lowest heat.
   
6. Add slices of green onion and boil a little. 
   
7. Serve immediately.
   

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“Almost!” says another person while hitting the machine with irritation, only to put more coins in it just a second later. Welcome to Game Arcades! They are very popular in Japan and not hard to find. Usually there are tall buildings, with at least 5 floors, but it’s possible to find smaller ones inside department stores. Take a look at this fun place, full of people wishing that maybe next time they will be lucky.

10 great tips from Lonely Planet can be found in here.

It’s time to start writing about how not to starve and go bankrupt at the same time. The answer is, eat like locals! But remember your roots- no need to force yourself to eat something you hate ;)

[If you are Japanese, stop reading immediately! This is not sushi-master approved recipe. This is my cooking 101, at-least-this-time-I-haven’t-set-the-kitchen-on-fire recipe with “close enough” effect. I like it, it’s my kitchen and so on]

And here comes the tuna roll sushi recipe. It is a really sushi, not some strange discovery- I’ve seen in sushi bars. It is easy to prepare, contains products that are easy to obtain and suit continental tastes. Enjoy!

Ingredients: 

• tuna in can x1
• 1/2 of small onion
• wasabi
• sushi rice
• rice vinegar (there’s a special type just for sushi)
• nori (the long and thin type
• mayonnaise 

Preparation:

1. Cook the sushi rice (I cooked it normally, just a pot and water). Remember to add rice vinegar so it will get more sticky and easier to form (one tea spoon for a bowl of rice).

2. Chop the onion in very small pieces (as small as you can). Mix it with tuna and mayonnaise. If you like it spicy you may add pepper. If you like it more mild, you can add boiled egg. Now you have tuna salad!

3. Form 5 cm (2 inch) long rolls of rice.

4. Wrap rice in nori. Put some wasabi on rice if you like.

5. Put tuna salad on the rice, inside the “basket” made of nori. (I’m pretty sure that’s not the right order, sushi masters probably put the nori at the end, but I was afraid that the salad will fall off).
6. Serve with soy sauce and gari.

Version with an egg

SOS tips:

• if the nori doesn’t want to stay together, you can use wasabu as a “glue” on the edges or just put a little water on them 
• if your nori’s shape is not the one you want, remember that kitchen scissors are your friends

Tea ceremony is one of the most known Japanese traditions. The one we were allowed to experience was quite plain and I’m sure it skipped some parts since it was only a few minutes long. Still, it was a very interesting experience.