China Eastern doesn’t exactly come up when people debate the world’s best business class. Qatar, Singapore, Emirates, ANA — these are the names that dominate...
🇯🇵 Japan
✈️ Flights, 🇯🇵 Japan, 🇦🇪 UAE
Etihad Airways 787-9 new business class suite, Japan – Tokyo to Abu Dhabi to Jeddah
Let me set the scene. It’s 5:20pm at Tokyo Narita. The sun is going down. You’re boarding a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner in Etihad business class for a 12.5-hour...
🏰 Places, 🇯🇵 Japan
Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan, Japan – whale sharks, jellyfish and everything in between
I’ll be honest – I didn’t expect an aquarium to be one of the most genuinely jaw-dropping experiences in Japan. And then I watched this vlog and spent...
🚢 Cruises, 🇯🇵 Japan, 🇰🇷 South Korea
MSC Bellissima Asia cruise – Tokyo, Osaka, Jeju Island and Kumamoto, Japan
MSC Bellissima has one of those names that tells you exactly what you’re supposed to think — “beautiful” in Italian — and the ship largely earns it. At...
So you want to spend ¥445,000 on a train ticket. That’s about $2,900 USD. For a train. One that goes a maximum of 110 km/h. And you can’t just buy the ticket...
Japan’s bullet train is already one of the best ways to travel on the planet. Clean, punctual, absurdly fast, and with views of Mount Fuji if you’re lucky...
🏩 Hotels & Resorts, 🇯🇵 Japan
Hotel The Mitsui Kyoto: staying next to Nijo Castle in a Nijo Suite (Japan)
There are luxury hotels in Kyoto. And then there’s Hotel The Mitsui Kyoto — a place where the gate at the entrance was built in 1703 and the grounds your room...
🏩 Hotels & Resorts, 🇯🇵 Japan
The Ritz-Carlton Kyoto, Japan: Corner Suite TATAMI stay on the Kamogawa River
Kyoto has no shortage of luxury hotels competing for the title of most culturally considered five-star in the city. But The Ritz-Carlton Kyoto has a location argument...
✈️ Flights, 🇯🇵 Japan, 🇨🇭 Switzerland, 🇦🇪 UAE
Emirates First Class Tokyo to Geneva: A380 and 777-300ER both refurbished (Japan – Switzerland)
So Emirates has been quietly — well, not quietly, Emirates doesn’t do anything quietly — refurbishing both its A380 and its 777-300ER First Class products, and the...
✈️ Flights, 🇮🇳 India, 🇯🇵 Japan, 🇸🇬 Singapore
Singapore Airlines Suites and First Class – Mumbai to Tokyo via Singapore
Singapore Airlines consistently sits at or near the top of every “world’s best airline” list and has for decades. But there’s a difference...
