Navigating a new country while raising a family is an exciting challenge, but it's even better when you have a few people to hang out with. This group helps Tokyo-based stay-at-home Dads and their kids organize and participate in great activities with other families. The focus is to create a social environment for Dads and our children, and to take advantage of all that Tokyo has to offer. Meetups occur around central Tokyo.  Feel free to check out what we have scheduled, or suggest a meetup tha …

The focus of the Tokyo Hanami Meetup is seasonal Japanese events (including hanami!). Event Calendar 2010: April - hanami & yozakura July - Mt. Fuji trip & hanabi October - koyo November - Nagoya tripDecember - illuminations   If you have any other suggestions about seasonal Japanese events, please send one of the organizers an e-mail!

The Tokyo spontaneous hangout welcomes any kinds of members and variety of activities. So this is a quite easy going meetup open to everybody, but the one request from organizer is that I want this meetup very active. I will do my best to set up interesting events, and will try to give tips of exploring Tokyo as local, but I couldn't be any happier if you would suggest ideas proactively (and spontaneously!!), which will help us make this meetup more and more active. Join us and have fun together …

They say that New York has in excess of 8000 places where one can find a bite to eat. London boasts more than 12000 pubs, bars, and restaurants. But when it comes to number one for choice, Tokyo has over 80000 eateries! Welcome to the Tokyo Eatup Meetup! Join us as we discover new eateries (cheap and not, casual and formal), sample new cuisines, and best of all, chat with old and new dinner companions!

This group is for those people who enjoy the Irish pub atmosphere where there is a strong local community spirit and connection, great food menu and beer selections and a wide variety of live sports and music events. Here you can have a friendly 'home-from-home' experience and enjoy a real taste of Ireland in Tokyo. For those interested in enjoying an international exchange in a warm cozy Irish pub with great food, beverages and atmosphere, please join us.

The TOKYO Rails Meetup Group is aimed at web engineers who are using, or are interested in learning more about the Ruby on Rails framework. We want to encourage all Rubyists and Railers to join us on the first Thursday of every month for good food, drinks and conversation at the COOKPAD offices in Shirokanedai, Tokyo. The events are open to all, and we particularly want to encourage both Japanese and English speakers to come and join in. The meetups will feature presentations and coding/hacking …

For the people who wants explore more fun with friends from different backgrounds. A Brand New Meetup Group just funded!! Let's enjoy Tokyo deeper and wider!! Let's go to some local Izakaya to eat and drink, let's go to Karaoke together to sing and dance, let's go mountain climbing near Tokyo to have some fresh air, let's rent a cruise to enjoy a special night, let's go to learn how to wear Kimono, how to serve green tea in a traditional Japanese style, let's spend a Sunday afternoon BBQ in some …

Online community for people in Japan and Tokyo to get together. Make new friends! http://www.tokyosocialnet.com/ ITS FREE! A bit like Facebook or Mixi for foreign & Japanese people around Tokyo or Kanto. Find new friends or partners, exchange job information. Create groups and social events to meet new people. You can make or join groups that match your interests, use advanced searches to find people you are looking for. Leave a comment on someone's profile... or send a privat …

This forum is a Quantifed Self group for those who mainly speak Japanese or live in Tokyo. We are inspired by Quantified Self Siliconvalley and want to let their mind root in Tokyo. Let's share what you did, how you did it and what you have learned.

Welcome to The Tokyo Creative Collective! This Meetup was formed so that everyone – not just creative professionals or people working in creative fields - can exercise their creativity in English and Japanese! We are open to all mediums: visual, written, vocal, and physical! We welcome painting, drawing, photography, video, mixed media, journalism, prose, poetry, spoken word, song, dance, chants, & more. Your imagination is our limit.   ------------------------------------------------- …

Are you in Tokyo? Do you love brunch? If you answered "yes" to both the above questions, then you qualify to join this group. Join us for late, lazy weekend brunches. Bring yourself, bring a friend, bring a newspaper, bring your appetite. Any or all of the above are welcome. The Group Name says it all: "Let's Brunch in Tokyo"

This group has been started to bring Animal Refuge Kansai (ARK) supporters in the Tokyo area together. Social events for the refuge are normally held in Kansai so this is an opportunity for supporters in Tokyo to enjoy getting together. Any member or sponsor (or supporter in any way) of ARK is encouraged to participate.

… SIT ON- blue tarp, cushions, futon ;) Meet from around 2pm on the 2nd and 4th Sunday of the month, in the big open green area deep in Yoyogi park- more or less at the spot below. Tokyo Picnickers Facebook page-you can see more Picnickers here.: http://www.facebook.com/groups/runeattalk/ See you there!

This group is for People in Tokyo interested in Bitcoins. Bitcoins are the worlds first P2P Virtual currency that are changing the way the world does business. http://www.bitcoin.org ビットコイン興味がある方を募集中です。　ビットコイン興味があればぜひ参加してください。日本語のサイト http://www.bitcoin.co.jp

Do you like or love baseball? Do you want to go to an occasional game in Tokyo, or watch some MLB or NPB with some guys and have a few beers at home? Better yet, do you have a boy playing, or wants to play, at some level in Japan and want to get advise, practice together, or find a team that fits your level of commitment? Then we can help. My boy played on a Japanese L.L. team and now plays with a mixed foreign L.L. team, and yours can too. Let's help each other learn the ropes of baseball in Ja …

This reiki circle group aims to share your reiki experience and to give chances to people to experience reiki healing at first time mainly in tokyo, Japan. Anybody can join! Let's enjoy together!