All seats in Tokyo’s 98-year-old Lion Café face two gigantic wall speakers. Mobile phones are banned out of respect for the classical music they play.

A full day of Japanese street food in the hidden backstreets of Old Tokyo. Fitting in as many Japanese foods as we can from Yaktori, and Takoyaki to Liquor shops that encourage you to drink on the ...

Established in 1964, this old world cafe offers coffee lovers a nostalgic retreat from the city’s frantic pace, wrapping them in an atmosphere reminiscent of Japan’s Taisho era (1912-26).

Megumu Gomi, left, and his wife, Megumi, pose outside D-13, a cafe they founded in an old flat house used as service member housing near Yokota Air Base, Japan. (Joshua L. DeMotts/Stars and Stripes) ...