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Dreaming of your first Japan trip? Let me show you exactly how to plan a trip to Tokyo like a pro! This post about how to plan a trip to Tokyo for the first time was written by family travel expert ...

Tokyo is a futuristic and traditional city that mixes the vintage and the new, and is one of the most thrilling places on the ...

Hiromi Kawakami, one of Japan’s most popular contemporary novelists, travels with books that help her immerse herself in her destination. Here, she suggests reading for those coming to her hometown, ...

Tokyo deals in specifics, not generalities. This isn't a city that reveals itself in sweeping panoramas but in momentary glimpses: the businessman who carries a Hello Kitty handkerchief, the ancient ...

Using a guidebook published more than 20 years ago, a writer searches out the bars and restaurants that express the city’s traditional eating and drinking culture. By Tom Downey Upon landing in Tokyo ...

In 1946, anthropologist Ruth Benedict published The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture. The American government had tapped her as a researcher during World War II to help better ...

The author's daughter, shopping bags in hand, returns to the Tokyo Edition Ginza after a day of mother-daughter shopping. Photo Credit: Rebecca Tobin My daughters are some of my favorite traveling ...