Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Ali is a senior travel consultant in our Bristol office, where she is a veteran at putting together fantastic trips for our customers. On a recent trip back to Japan, she decided to check out one of the weirder offerings on Tokyo’s café circuit… Like this post? […]
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Don Quijote: A retail treasure hunt
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Brett is one of our tour leaders. He lives in Yokohama, Japan’s second-biggest city, and spends his free time frequenting Tokyo’s retro video game arcades, seeking out new restaurants, and eating tonkotsu ramen whenever possible. Like this post? Help us by sharing it!
Itasha car culture in Akihabara
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Our Office Administrator, Matt Goldsmith, is a committed manga, anime and car enthusiast – so who better to give an introduction to the subculture of itasha!? Welcome to a world you never knew existed… Like this post? Help us by sharing it!
Celebrating Valentine’s Day in Japan
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Did you know that Japan celebrates Valentine’s Day twice? Never one to miss out on a good festival (as I’ve mentioned before, Japan holds an estimated 200,000 of them every year), whoever decides these things decided that one day of commercially-driven proclamations of love was simply not […]
A gamer’s guide to Tokyo
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! At Inside Japan Tours, we often send our tour leaders out to research new tours and experiences for our customers. Here, Long Islander Mike Reddy describes a recent training day, during which eight of our intrepid tour leaders gathered to road test Brett’s new video game tour […]
We’ve got it covered: Umbrella culture in Japan
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! After recently spending a warm and sunny June in Europe, I returned to Japan during tsuyu, the rainy season. This is not the best time of the year to be without a trusty brolly (kasa in Japanese), and so after losing two in the space of 24 […]
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! After recently spending a warm and sunny June in Europe, I returned to Japan during tsuyu, the rainy season. This is not the best time of the year to be without a trusty brolly (kasa in Japanese), and so after losing two in the space of 24 […]