Travel + Leisure scored one hotel 100 out of 100 in its 2026 World’s Best Awards and named it the best hotel in the world. It wasn’t in Paris, Bangkok or the...
🇯🇵 Japan
The Tokaido Shinkansen opened on 1 October 1964, just in time for the Tokyo Olympics. On 1 October 2026, its 62nd birthday, JR Central and JR West added something the...
🚢 Cruises, 🇯🇵 Japan, 🇵🇭 Philippines, 🇸🇬 Singapore
MSC World Asia – a mega-ship named for a continent it won’t sail to
Here’s the twist nobody sees coming: every deck on MSC World Asia is named after an Asian city – Tokyo, Seoul, Dubai, Singapore, Manila, all 22 of them...
✈️ Flights, 🇯🇵 Japan, 🇦🇪 UAE
Etihad A380 First Class Apartment – Abu Dhabi to Tokyo Narita on the new route
The Etihad First Class Apartment is the kind of product that comes up every time someone asks “what’s the best first class seat in the world?” — and...
Twenty thousand yen. About $126. That’s what it costs to get a fully private cabin on an overnight bus from Tokyo to Osaka, wake up already in the city, and skip...
Five hundred yen. That’s $3.10. That’s the price of a canned coffee from a convenience store in Japan. And for that, Tennoji Zoo in Osaka gives you 11...
I’ll be honest — I didn’t think a train ride could genuinely compete with a flight for drama. Then I watched this and reconsidered everything. This is a...
There are ryokans and then there is Asaba. I don’t say that lightly — Japan has thousands of traditional inns, some of them genuinely extraordinary, and the word...
✈️ Flights, 🇮🇩 Indonesia, 🇯🇵 Japan
Garuda Indonesia first class on the presidential jet – Bali to Tokyo
I’ll be honest — I didn’t even know Garuda Indonesia had a first class product until about a week before writing this. Most people outside Southeast Asia...
🏩 Hotels & Resorts, 🇯🇵 Japan
Capella Kyoto – inside Japan’s newest ultra-luxury hotel in the heart of the geisha district
Capella Kyoto opened on March 22, 2026 — which means this vlog, filmed in late April 2026, is about five weeks into the hotel’s life. The property was still warm...
