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Visiting Tokyo during the summer can be amazing. There are non-stop festivals and fireworks displays, and who doesn’t love eating kakigouri (shaved ice) on a hot afternoon in the sun? But we also...
Kyoto tends to get filed under "serious" travel, the place you go for history and culture rather than fun, and I think that reputation puts a lot of parents off before they have even looked...
When parents start researching things to do in Japan with kids for their trip, they usually end up frustrated, staring at a list of temples and shrines that look stunning in photographs but are...
Summer in Japan means two things: hot weather and festivals! And as the country’s biggest summer festival, Gion Matsuri is worth suffering all the heat and humidity just to experience it. The...
Most people planning a trip to Japan build their route around cities. Tokyo, then Kyoto, maybe Osaka, with a day trip to Nara squeezed in for the deer. It works, and it is a fine trip, I will not...
If your ideal afternoon looks less like a packed sightseeing list and more like a certain tea-loving uncle from Avatar finding his happy place, you’re booking the right thing. Understand the listings, compare the most common formats, and know what to check before you book a Japanese tea ceremony with this guide.
Japan has more Michelin-starred restaurants than any other country outside of France, and it is easy to spend an entire trip eating extraordinarily well without ever touching a kitchen. But as a...
Choosing Kyushu for your Japan trip might just be the best decision you could make. Compared to the busyness of Honshu, the region is incredibly quiet and relaxed, but with some of the most amazing...
When my son was born, I quickly realised that I might have to write travel off the calendar for a few years. Planning and managing a trip is hard enough. Adding kids to the equation is, to say the...
One of the reasons Japan is such a popular tourist destination is the sheer number of unique and memorable experiences you can have in the country. But what we have seen as a boutique travel agency...
Travelling anywhere for the first time as a member of the LGBTQIA+ community can come with its complications. But we’re happy to tell you that the hardest thing about travelling as a queer person in...
Most people outside Japan grow up with a fairly cartoonish idea of what samurai and ninja actually were. Samurai become noble swordsmen in slow motion films, all silence and honour. Ninja become...
Learn what “knife-making” can mean for bookings in Japan, compare the most common types of listings, and know what to check before you book.
When you picture Japan, the geisha is probably one of the first things that come to mind. If the embarrassing videos of oblivious tourists hounding them along the streets of Kyoto are anything to go...
As a Japan-based travel agency, we know that the experience of travelling anywhere in the world as a member of the LGBTQIA+ community comes with more complications than it should. There are...