The Tokyo Traveler

Trading Tokyo for London, Rome or one of 20 other cities is now possible when you play the newest version of MONOPOLY. On August 20th, Hasbro, the makers of the world’s most popular board game announced the 22 cities elected by fans worldwide that will appear on the new MONOPOLY Here & Now: The World Edition game board.
The 22 cities, listed in order of property groupings with the highest rent properties listed first, is as follows:

Montreal
Riga
Cape Town
Belgrade
Paris
Jerusalem
Hong Kong
Beijing
London
New York
Sydney
Vancouver
Shanghai
Rome
Toronto
Kyiv
Istanbul
Athens
Barcelona
Tokyo
Taipei
Gdynia

Other cool additions to the newest MONOPOLY game board include tokens, houses and hotels that reflect icons and styles from all …read more

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Today I will answer the first of the many great questions that I received when I asked “What do YOU want to know about Tokyo?” More of the questions and answers will follow during the month of June so stay tuned…
Andrea Kirkby from The London Traveler said:I remember a great song by the Pogues called ‘Pachinko Dream’ which had the most compulsive little mandolin riff I’ve ever heard together with sampled real pachinko sounds. Now, I want to know where to find a real pachinko parlor – and how you play it….

Pachinko parlors are everywhere in Japan and they …read more

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