You can rent tons of things in Tokyo. Cars. Clothes. Portable chargers. Boyfriends. Girlfriends. Grandmas. Naturally, I had questions. Given that Jass and I are married to each other, we weren’t going to rent a girlfriend or boyfriend. But I was intrigued by the grandma rental service option. While looking for unusual things to do…
After a few days in Tokyo surrounded by skyscrapers, neon signs, packed trains and what felt like several million people, our Hakone day trip was a very welcome change of scenery. We wanted to see somewhere outside Tokyo without changing hotels, and a day trip to Hakone seemed like the perfect way to do it….
There are certain things you can do in Tokyo that would be completely ridiculous almost anywhere else. Driving a tiny go-kart through the actual streets of Tokyo dressed in a costume is one of them. Obviously, I immediately wanted to do it. Street karting had been on my list before we even arrived in Japan….
One thing I really wanted to see in Japan? Large nappy-clad men throwing salt at each other. Obviously. Unfortunately, our dates in Tokyo didn’t coincide with a Grand Sumo tournament. But rather than accept that sumo wasn’t happening on this particular trip, I started looking at what else we could do. That’s how we ended…
There are so many things to do in Tokyo that deciding what to leave out of your itinerary is considerably harder than finding things to fill it with. Before our first trip to Tokyo, I had a very long list. Temples, observation decks, immersive art, arcades, sumo, ramen, shopping, street karting and, apparently, renting a…
Park Hotel Tokyo describes itself as an art museum you can stay in, which sounded right up my street. Rather than putting a few paintings in the lobby and calling itself an art hotel, Park Hotel Tokyo has gone considerably further. There is art everywhere, the corridors on each floor double as galleries and more…
Deciding where to stay in Tokyo was one of the things I found surprisingly difficult when planning my first trip. Tokyo is enormous, there are thousands of hotels and every neighbourhood seems to come with someone online insisting it’s the best place to stay. Shibuya if you want the quintessential Tokyo experience. Shinjuku for nightlife….
Tokyo is enormous. This probably isn’t news to you, but I don’t think I fully appreciated just how enormous it was until I started planning my trip and realised that half the things I’d saved were nowhere near one another. You can absolutely spend 5 days in Tokyo seeing plenty of the places on your…
Japan is one of those countries where planning your first trip can get out of hand remarkably quickly. There’s even a term for it: ‘Japlanning’. There’s Tokyo. Kyoto. Osaka. Mount Fuji. Hokkaido. Approximately 700 experiences you’ve saved on Instagram . And somehow you’re supposed to fit all of this into one holiday while remembering that…