Tips & articles
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Tokyo on the cheap
14 May 2012
Sounds oxymoronic, doesn’t it? Tokyo and budgets seemingly don’t mix. Rest assured, you don’t have to live on rice to...
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Escape from Tokyo: the Izu Peninsula
27 April 2012
Tokyo can have you feeling like a pinball being flung about in one giant game of pachinko. And while experiencing...
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Tokyo’s strangest sights
18 April 2012
Tokyo is full of baffling attractions. Even more mind-bending is that most of them actually make perfect sense when you...
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Seeing Tokyo along the Yamanote Line
12 April 2012
Many Tokyoites will tell you that the best way to get to know their city is to travel station by...
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Tokyo hotels: the weird and the wonderful
05 April 2012
Beyond the usual selection of hotels from five-star to budget, Tokyo has plenty that fall off the spectrum entirely. These...
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Japanese bath etiquette: how to visit a sento
15 March 2012
At the end of a long day, a hot sento public bath can wash away your troubles, and that’s a...
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How to navigate Tokyo’s train system
14 March 2012
Tokyo is blessed with one of the world’s most efficient public transportation systems. It’s a city of ‘paper drivers’ –...
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Travel in Japan one year after the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
12 March 2012
One year after Japan’s heartbreaking triple-disaster, the country still has a lot more reconstruction ahead of it and some psychological...
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The world’s finest freebies
30 November 2011
It sounds too good to be true – but these top-class experiences wonʼt cost you a penny. From bike trips...
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Kōyō: Japan’s autumn explosion of colour
15 August 2011
Literally translated as ‘red leaves,’ kōyō is to autumn what cherry blossoms are to spring in Japan. Both natural events...
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Naughty or nice: travel by the deadly sins – and virtues!
27 June 2011
We’ve all got our own motivations for traveling, so why not the 7 deadly sins? Here are our pick of...
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Japan: is it safe to return?
10 May 2011
Earthquakes, tsunamis and nuclear radiation: could anything make Japan a more unappealing destination? After the devastating 9.0 quake of 11...
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A guide to the eateries of Japan
25 April 2011
Possibly more than any nationality in the world, the Japanese love to eat out, and the cornucopia of culinary options,...
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Food wonderlands: where gourmet fantasies come true
22 March 2011
Imagine a dreamy world of candy apples, whirling spices and chocolate fountains… Step into a delicious reality with these 10...
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Best bars to taste that local flavour
15 March 2011
Drinking with the locals isn’t hard in these 10 bars (although you’ll more than likely be drinking with a few...
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The best of Japan
09 March 2011
Japan packs a wallop of cultural wealth, natural beauty and modern oddities into its compact geography – so you...
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Tokyo’s department-store basements take shopping to another level
08 March 2011
Depachika = depa (short for depaato, or department store) + chika (basement)Why is there a Japanese word for ‘department-store basement’?...
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7 bizarre bars around the world
20 December 2010
Nothing makes a drink taste better than sitting in an alien’s lap while you have it, right? Come with us...
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Tokyo’s top shopping strips
01 December 2010
This is an excerpt from the Shopping chapter of Lonely Planet’s Tokyo guide.Tokyoites shop as they work – long and...
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Films where the destination is the star
01 December 2010
At times while watching films you’ll notice the main character isn’t human. You’ll realise that the destination where the film...
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Japan: travel books to read before you go
01 October 2010
This excerpt from Lonely Planet’s Japan guide provides a selection of travel literature to enhance your trip....
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Sushi & Sashimi for beginners
26 September 2010
This is an excerpt from the food and drinks chapter of Lonely Planet’s Tokyo guide.The first thing most visitors in...
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Japanese drinks for beginners
26 September 2010
This is an excerpt from the food and drinks chapter of Lonely Planet’s Tokyo guide.Unlike the Western world, soft drinks...
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The 6 best cities to get lost in
25 September 2010
Put your map away and spin round three times – it’s time to get lost. Going off the radar in...
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