Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Travel consultant Amy Bowinski recently revisited Japan, where she spent a spare evening testing out Ninja Akasaka: Tokyo’s famed ninja restaurant. Tokyo is well known for its many theme restaurants – Jailhouse, Robot, Alice in Wonderland, Gundam, Pop Idols, and all the rest. The themes vary hugely, […]
January 2016
Appreciating the countryside in rural Yamaguchi
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! You know, some places get all the love. Tokyo. Kyoto. Osaka. Mount Fuji. Hiroshima. Okinawa. World famous, sure, and rightly so. Full of absolute magic – and people. But what about those places NOT in the guidebooks? Should they be skipped, passed by on the way to […]
The 7 best places to drink craft beer in Tokyo
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Beer tasting in Popeye
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Our resident craft beer expert, Grant, is a travel consultant in our office in Boulder, Colorado. Here, he gives us an introduction to the craft beer scene in Tokyo, including his top 7 places to get a pint of the good stuff. Like this post? Help us […]
10 places you didn’t know you could visit in Japan
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! When you visit Japan, you’ll notice a trend where tourist destinations are often promoted by comparing them to more famous locales. For instance. “Come to Okinawa, it’s the Hawaii of Japan!”, or “visit Kagoshima, the Naples of the Orient” – and so forth. While it is rather […]
Underground Mysteries in Tokyo
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SCRAP Metro Escape Game
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! In this blog post, charismatic tour leader and video game extraordinaire, Brett Plotz, joins the author, David Lovejoy, on a quest to clear the Tokyo Metro Real Escape Game. For those who aren’t in the know, “real escape games” are produced by a company named SCRAP, and call […]
Kabuki and the Art of…David Bowie?
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! R.I.P. David (1947-2016) Last year (September 2015), our Emily took a look at how Japanese designers and aesthetics influenced David Bowie’s on-stage persona – A great read written by a huge fan of the music legend. Many people are familiar with worldwide Glam/Pop Icon David Bowie, (and […]
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! R.I.P. David (1947-2016) Last year (September 2015), our Emily took a look at how Japanese designers and aesthetics influenced David Bowie’s on-stage persona – A great read written by a huge fan of the music legend. Many people are familiar with worldwide Glam/Pop Icon David Bowie, (and […]