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...
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✈️ 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...
There are expensive things and then there is Seven Stars in Kyushu. ¥1,870,000 per person for the 3-night, 4-day course – approximately $13,100 USD – for a...
✈️ Flights, 🇯🇵 Japan, 🇺🇸 USA
ANA business class “THE ROOM” Tokyo to New York – and a JetBlue connection to Miami
So here’s the thing about ANA’s THE ROOM business class. It’s been out since 2019, it has won basically every award in aviation, and people have been...
✈️ Flights, 🇯🇵 Japan, 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
Qatar Airways Qsuite Tokyo to Doha – and why the second flight matters
If you’ve been in the points and miles world for more than about six months, you’ve heard this claim: Qatar Airways Qsuite is the world’s best business...
✈️ Flights, 🇯🇵 Japan, 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
Emirates Premium Economy Riyadh to Tokyo – what 26 hours in the new cabin actually feels like
Here’s the thing about Emirates Premium Economy that people keep getting wrong in the discourse: it’s being compared to Business Class constantly, which is...
🚂 Trains, 🇯🇵 Japan
Japan’s last sleeper train to Izumo – Sunrise Express, Izumo Taisha, and a ryokan onsen in winter
Japan has one regularly operating sleeper train left. One. The bullet train network and cheap domestic flights have made overnight trains essentially redundant — except...
✈️ Flights, 🇯🇵 Japan, 🇺🇸 USA
JAL first class on the new A350-1000 from Tokyo to Dallas – one of the best seats in the sky, genuinely
There’s a sentence I’ve seen in roughly half the serious reviews of Japan Airlines’ new A350-1000 first class and it goes something like “this is...
🏩 Hotels & Resorts, 🇯🇵 Japan
Higashiyama Niseko Village, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve – Japan’s most beautiful ski hotel or overhyped?
Okay so here’s the thing about Higashiyama Niseko Village, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve. The exterior is, to be honest, a bit of a shock. You drive up to what is...
