The folks at Google Maps decided it’d be fun if they added a historical map of Tokyo onto the site’s existing map and satellite layers. They were wrong. The centuries-old woodblock maps, which are ...

As most travelers know, Tokyo is huge. The city is urban sprawl at its most overwhelming, making finding the best places to eat, shop, see, let alone sleep, a downright chore. The city is broken up ...

In the silent depths of Tokyo, 50 meters underground, lies a city that maps ignore, that guidebooks omit, but which watches over the Japanese capital every day. Invisible to the naked eye, this giant ...