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...
🇯🇵 Japan
🚂 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...
🚂 Trains, 🇯🇵 Japan
Gran Class on the Hayabusa Shinkansen – Tokyo to Hokkaido through the world’s longest undersea tunnel
There’s a specific kind of travel nerd energy that comes with booking the most expensive seat on a bullet train that’s already faster than anything most...
✈️ Flights, 🇯🇵 Japan, 🇪🇸 Spain
Emirates Business Class Tokyo to Barcelona – the new 777 and old A380 back to back
For years, if you wanted to fly Emirates Business Class on a Boeing 777, there was a 50/50 chance your seatmate in the middle seat was going to introduce themselves to...
🏩 Hotels & Resorts, 🇯🇵 Japan
Banyan Tree Higashiyama Kyoto – Kengo Kuma’s new onsen hotel with a Noh stage you didn’t know you needed
Kyoto has no shortage of luxury hotels. It has the Park Hyatt, the Four Seasons, the Ritz-Carlton, the Aman. So when a new five-star property opens and its headline...
🏩 Hotels & Resorts, 🇯🇵 Japan
Park Hyatt Kyoto – 70 rooms, a Yasaka Pagoda view and a Michelin-starred breakfast you have to pre-order
The Park Hyatt Kyoto has a problem, and the problem is that it’s too good to talk about without sounding like you’re on the hotel’s payroll. It opened...
🏩 Hotels & Resorts, 🇯🇵 Japan
Aman Kyoto – 26 rooms, a secret garden 40 years in the making and $4,510 a night in autumn
Here is a hotel that took 20 years to conceive, 10 years to negotiate the land, another 10 years to build, and then the architect who designed it died one year before it...
The Asuka II has won Japan’s Cruise Ship of the Year award for 31 consecutive years. Thirty-one. That’s either the most impressive loyalty in the cruising...
