I love researching the best places to go when I go on holiday, especially when it’s in Japan. I love planning, and I love knowing I’ve got the money to do it all. But I can absolutely see that for some people,…
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I love Tokyo, it’s easily one of my top 3 cities in Japan and definitely somewhere I plan on living longer. However, it does sometimes get a little overwhelming and I often find myself looking for places close by to escape to.…
Tokyo is the biggest city in the world, and it’s almost perpetually busy. My local commuter train pretty much always has 0 seats available despite the day or time of year, and the same is true for a lot of places up…
Questions like ‘Is Nikko worth visiting?’ are some of the most common ones I end up answering every week by email. Some of them make it into an article, and some of them don’t for a variety of reasons, but Nikko, somewhere…
Japanese Shinkansen are famous the world over for being some of the fastest, cleanest, and most reliable trains on the planet. I’d hazard a guess that you already knew that, but what about some of the other, more practical questions you’ve got…
I decided to write a gigantic list of books that are set in Japan which I think are worth reading. This going to be the first (and main) article in a series of book lists I'm writing so the entries on the…