Eating Vegetarian in Japan
- Big in Japan: 5 tips for eating veggie in Japan: From Gadling.com
- Japan Veg Guide: Guide to vegetarian and vegan living in Japan, including a helpful vocab list including romanizations (niku), kana (にく), and kanji (肉) under “What Not to Eat”
- Japan Vegetarian Society: A Japanese website, but there’s an option to view it in English. Includes listings of vegetarian-friendly restaurants.
- The Japanese Vegetarian Kitchen: The English- and Japanese-language vegetarian food blogs of a Tokyo woman named Izumi Shoji
- Tokyo Food Page — Vegetarian and Health Food Restaurants: A list of restaurants in Tokyo with vegetarian items on the menu
- The Tokyo Vegan Meetup Group: “A fun group of vegans, vegetarians and vege-friendly people in Tokyo” who have meetings and restaurant outings; site includes a message board
- Tokyo Vegetarian Guide: Hasn’t been updated for a while, but a good resource
- Vegetarian Dining in Japan: The chronicles of one couple’s 2007 trip to Japan, with descriptions of places all over the country
- Vegetarian in Japan Report: A detailed food log by one very strict vegetarian (quote: “I’m the type of vegetarian who won’t eat someone’s French fries if they’re even on the same plate as the hamburger”) from her short trip to Tokyo and Kyoto
Tourist Info
- A la Carte Maps: City travel guides
- Tokyo Tourism Info: Official page
- Japan-Guide.com: Information for locations all over Japan
Japanese Language Help
- Japanese Lessons: A website that provides audio clips so you can learn correct pronunciation for some basic words and phrases
- Japanese in 20 Weeks: A pretty thorough Japanese-learning site
- Jim Breen’s WWWJDIC: An online dictionary searchable by English, romanized Japanese, or kana; for those who know some Japanese, you can also search for kanji by radical
Japan in Pictures
- madclava: My own photos, which I update pretty often
- Altus: Wonderful photos of Japan, where this native Texan lives with his Japanese wife and their children
- Tokyo Foto Sushi: The photo blog of a fellow expat photographer — he’s from Berlin, so the blog is in German, but the photos often speak for themselves and Babelfish or Google Translate can give you the gist of the entries
