Masaki Sano is one of the pioneers of experimental, theoretical and computational nonlinear dynamics. Back in the eighties, he published, among many other things, work on chaotic
attractors in Rayleigh-Bénard convection and systems of coupled oscillators. Today, he leads the Sano Laboratory in the physics department of the University of Tokyo. Members of his group work on topics as diverse as covariant Lyapunov vectors, two-phase thermal convection and experimental realisations of Maxwell's demon. This is a report on a visit by your Editor-in-Chief to Sano Laboratory last September.