Because “just book a hotel” is the worst advice you’ll get for this trip. There’s a version of your Japan trip where you check into a beige business hotel, sleep fine, and see all the sights. That version is fine. But you’ll spend the whole flight home wondering what you missed. Japan has accommodation options…
Tokyo has 14 million people in the city proper. The metro system has 285 stations. There are entire districts dedicated to nothing but electronics, or anime, or vintage denim. You can see why people look at it and think: where do I even start? Here’s the thing — Tokyo isn’t hard to travel. It just…
There’s a moment that happens in Osaka. You’re standing at Ebisubashi Bridge at night, the Glico running man is blazing in neon above the canal, the smell of takoyaki is drifting from somewhere to your left, and someone nearby is already on their third skewer of kushikatsu. And you think: why did I spend so…
Japan doesn’t ease you in. You step off the plane, and the place immediately makes a case for itself — the trains run to the second, the convenience store food is better than most restaurants back home, and somehow everything is both ancient and wildly modern at the same time. I’ve been back three times….
Most people do Kyoto wrong. Not because they pick the wrong temples. Not because they miss some obscure neighbourhood only locals know about. They do it wrong because they show up at 10am, shuffle through the same five spots they’ve already seen on Instagram, and leave thinking yeah, that was nice. Nice. Kyoto deserves better…